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Behn

bɛn
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Behn
    (Bot) The Centaurea behen, or saw-leaved centaury.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Per. & Ar. bahman, behmen, an herb, whose leaves resemble ears of corn, saffron

Usage in the news

State Senate Minority Leader Jerry Behn and Sen Rob Bacon will return to the Iowa Capitol next year, although Bacon will be in the House of Representatives. messengernews.net

Behn , R-Boone, was re-elected to his fifth term in Senate District 24. messengernews.net

State Senate Majority Leader Jerry Behn appeared to be on track to win re-election late Tuesday night. freemanjournal.net

Mike Gronstal and Sen Jerry Behn . iptv.org

A conversation with two state senators, democratic majority leader Mike Gronstal and republican minority leader Jerry Behn on this edition of Iowa Press. iptv.org

Ken Fowser/ Behn Gillece Duotone Posi-Tone. jazztimes.com

Tight harmonies on the frontline between co-leaders Ken Fowser on tenor sax and Behn Gillece on vibraphone set the tone for this solid offering. jazztimes.com

His name is Peter Behn and he's the voice behind Thumper KPCW's Rick Brough has the story. kpcw.org

DIX REPLACES JERRY BEHN OF BOONE, WHO DID NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION TO THE SENATE POST. kscj.com

Usage in literature

Possibly Behn v. Burness, stated above, might have been dealt with in this way. "The Common Law" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

BEHN, AFRA, a licentious writer, born in Kent, for whom, for her free and easy ways, Charles II. "The Nuttall Encyclopaedia" by Edited by Rev. James Wood

The only hit is his scheme for a female university, with Mrs. Manly and Mrs. Afra Behn in the chair of literature. "Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15, No. 90, June, 1875" by Various

Mrs. Aphra Behn wrote "Oroonoko", one of the first novels. "Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed." by S. A. Reilly

Mrs. Behn died April 16, 1689, and was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey. "A History of Pantomime" by R. J. Broadbent

Mrs. Aphra Behn was the first Englishwoman who adopted literature as a regular profession. "Miscellanies" by Oscar Wilde

To excite indignation against the results of the slave trade, Mrs. Behn took the special instance of Oroonoko. "A History of English Prose Fiction" by Bayard Tuckerman

Mrs. Behn died in 1689, and it seemed at first that she had left no heritage to her sex. "Some Diversions of a Man of Letters" by Edmund William Gosse

Mary Wollstonecraft, after Aphra Behn the first really noteworthy Englishwoman of letters, gave voice to this movement in England. "The Task of Social Hygiene" by Havelock Ellis

Mrs. Behn openly confessed she knew no Latin, and she was ill supplied here. "The Works of Aphra Behn" by Aphra Behn