Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bene \Be"ne\, n. [AS. b[=e]n.]
   A prayer; boon. [Archaic]

         What is good for a bootless bene ?       --Wordsworth.

Bene \Ben"e\, n. (Bot.)
   See {Benne}.

Bene \Bene\, Ben \Ben\, n. [Native name.] (Zo["o]l.)
   A hoglike mammal of New Guinea ({Porcula papuensis}).