Behand vs Behang - What's the difference?
behand | behang |
(lb) To remove the hand or hands from; cut off one's hand or hands.
*1909 , Theodore L. Flood, The Chautauquan - Volumes 53-54 - Page 55 :
*2004 , Susan C. Power, Early Art of the Southeastern Indians :
(ambitransitive) To hang round or about; depend; suspend; drape.
*1824 , Richard Johnson, The renowned history of the seven champions of Christendom :
*1890 , Robert Herrick, William Carew Hazlitt, Hesperides :
To ornament; embellish.
* 1874 , Plutarch, John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough, Plutarch's lives :
As verbs the difference between behand and behang
is that behand is (lb) to remove the hand or hands from; cut off one's hand or hands while behang is (ambitransitive) to hang round or about; depend; suspend; drape.behand
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Verb
(en verb)- Notice the bronze hands over the fireplace. A person sentenced to be "behanded " might by law commute the punishment by paying a certain sum, and presenting a bronze hand marked with the name, crime, etc.
- The pit burial in a Cahokia mound of four beheaded and behanded men "could easily be personifications of the four beheaded, sacred ears of corn in a similar ritual" (Brose and Greber 1979, 264).
behang
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Verb
- Now seven times had frosty-bearded Winter covered both herbs and flowers with snow, and behung the trees with crystal icicles, since the unfortunate St. George beheld the cheerful light of heaven, but lived obscure in a dismal dungeon, [...]
- And with rich clusters (hid among The leaves) her temples I behung : [...]
- Moreover, when they have introduced the bride, they spread a fleece under her; and she, having brought in with her a distaff and a spindle, all behangs her husband's door with woollen yarn?
