a mountain, cognate with the Cym.-Cel. _pen_; _e.g._ Beanach (a hilly place); Ben-more (great mountain); Ben-a-buird (table mountain); Ben-a-bhaird (the bard’s mountain); Benan, _i.e._ _Binnean_ (the peaked hill or pinnacle); Bencleuch (stony mountain); Ben-cruachan (the stack-shaped mountain, _cruach_); Bendearg (red mountain); Bendronach (the mountain with the hunch, _dronnag_); Bengloe (the mountain with the covering or veil, _gloth_); Benamore and Bannmore (the great peaks, _beanna_, peaks); Bennachie (the hill of the pap, at its summit, _ache_); Benavoir (the mountain of gold, _or_), in Jura; Benclibrig (the hill of the playing trout); Benloyal, _i.e_, _Ben-laoghal_ (the hill of the calves); Ben-na-cailleach (nun’s hill); Ben Lomond, named from Loch Lomond, _quod vide_; Benmacdhui, _i.e._ _Beinn-na-muc-dubh_ (the mountain of the black sow); Ben Nevis (the cloud-capped or snowy mountain); Benvenue (the little mountain), as compared with Benledi; Benwyvis (stupendous mountain, _uabhasach_); Benvrachie (spotted mountain); Benvoirlich (the mountain of the great loch). In Ireland: Benbo, _i.e._ Beannabo (the peaks of the cows); Dunmanway, in Cork, corrupt. from Dun-na-mbeann (the fortress of the pinnacles). In Ireland _ben_ is more generally applied to small steep hills than to mountains; _e.g._ Bengore (the peak of the goats, _gabhar_); Benburb, Lat. _pinna superba_ (proud peak), in Tyrone; the Twelve Pins, _i.e._ _bens_ or peaks, in Connemara; Banagh and Benagh (a place full of peaks); Bannaghbane and Bannaghroe (white and red hilly ground); Banaghar, King’s Co., and Bangor, Co. Down, anc. _Beannchar_ (the pointed hills or rocks); but Bangor, in Wales, signifies the high choir; Drumbanagh (the ridge of the peaks). [Sidenote: BEL, BELLE, BEAU (Fr.), BELLO, BELLA (Port., Span., It.),] beautiful, fine, from the Lat. _bellus_; _e.g._ Belchamp, Belcastro (beautiful field and camp); Belle-isle and Belile (beautiful island); Beaufort, Beaulieu, Beaumont, Beaumanoir (fine fort, place, mount, manor); Beaumaris (the fair marsh), so named in the reign of Edward I. Some think it may have been formerly _Bimaris_ (between two seas), a name applied by Horace to Corinth; Belvoir (beautiful to see), in Rutland; Bewley and Bewdley, corrupt. from Beaulieu; Beauley, a river and village in Inverness-shire, named from _Prioratus-de-bello-loco_ (the priory of the beautiful place), founded in 1230; Beachy Head, according to Camden, is the head of the beach, but Holland, who published _Camden’s Britannia_, says it was called Beaucliff, or, more probably, Beauchef (beautiful headland); Beaudesert (beautiful retreat); Belper, _i.e._ _Beau-repaire_ (with the same meaning), in Warwick and Derbyshire; Leighton-Buzzard, corrupt. of its ancient name _Legionbuhr_ (the fortress of the legion); Balaclava, corrupt. from its ancient name _Bella-chiava_ (the beautiful frontier town, _chiave_), founded by the Genoese. [Sidenote: BEL, BIALA (Sclav.),]