1900. TOD, _Charterhouse_, 131. Besides prizes, BENE-BOOKS are awarded to the Sixth Forms on the following system: Every boy generally does four classical exercises a week, viz., Greek and Latin prose, Greek and Latin verse, and one mathematical exercise; these are marked, according to their merit, B, b, sb, s, vs, m, M; that is to say, Big bene, bene, satis bene, satis, vix satis, male, Big male.... A BENE-BOOK (value 12s. 6d.) is earned by the winner of two BENES a week throughout the quarter. There used to be a yet higher mark, _i.e._, B†, or a WRITE-OUT, which counted four. A B† denoted that the composition to which it was attached was worthy of being written out in a book kept with a view to forming a new edition of “Sertum Carthusianum.” There are many volumes of old WRITE-OUT books on the shelves of the library, but for years no addition has been made to them. The WRITE-OUT is quite obsolete. *Bevers*, _subs._ (general).—An afternoon meal or refreshment; a snack between meals. Whence (Winchester) BEVERS (or BEVER-TIME) = an interval from 4.30 to 5 in afternoon school, observed (says WRENCH) long after the distribution of bread and beer had ceased on whole school-days. [_See_ BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, i. 20; FORD, i. 392; FLORIO, in v. _Merénda_; COOPER, in v. _Antecænium_; _Stanihurst’s Descr. of Ireland_, p. 18; _Nomenclator_, p. 79; Sir JOHN OLDCASTLE, p. 42; HOWELL, sect. 43; MIDDLETON’S _Works_, iv. 427, v. 141.] 1580. _Lingua_ [DODSLEY, _Old Plays_ (REID, 1825), v. 148]. _Appetitus._ Your gallants never sup, breakfast, nor BEVER without me. 1585. _Nomenclator_, p. 79. A middaies meale: an undermeale: a boire or BEAVER: a refreshing betwixt meales. 1597. HARRISON, _Desc. of England_. Of old we had breakfastes in the forenoone, BEUARAGES or nuntions after dinner, and thereto reare suppers, generallie when it was time to go to rest, a toie brought into England by hardie Canutus; but nowe these are very well past, and each one, except some young hungrie stomach, that cannot fast till dinner-time, contenteth him self with dinner and supper. 1598. FLORIO, _Worlde of Wordes_, s.v. Merenda, Plauto. Propriè olim prandium dicebatur quod meridie daretur. Nonius cibum qui post meridiem sumitur interpretatur. ἑσπέρισμα. Le reciner. 1604. MARLOWE, _Dr. Faustus_. Thirty meals a day and ten BEVERS. 1607. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, _Woman Hater_, i. 3. He is none of those same ordinary eaters, that will devour three breakfasts, and as many dinners, without any prejudice to their BEVERS, drinkings, or suppers. 1611. COTGRAVE, _Dict._, s.v. BEVER. An afternoon’s nuncheon.