[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bench \bench\, n.; pl. benches. oe. bench, benk, as. benc;
   akin to sw. baumnk, dan baenk, icel. bekkr, os., d.,  g.
   bank. cf. bank, beach.
   1. a long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.
      1913 webster

            mossy benches supplied the place of chairs. --sir w.
                                                  scott.
      1913 webster

   2. a long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a
      carpenter's bench.
      1913 webster

   3. the seat where judges sit in court.
      1913 webster

            to pluck down justice from your awful bench. --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. the persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion
      of the full bench. see king's bench.
      1913 webster

   5. a collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; --
      so named because the animals are usually placed on benches
      or raised platforms.
      1913 webster

   6. a conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat
      ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or
      river.
      1913 webster

   bench mark leveling, one of a number of marks along a
      line of survey, affixed to permanent objects, to show
      where leveling staffs were placed. see bench mark in the
      vocabulary.

   bench of bishops, the whole body of english prelates
      assembled in council.

   bench plane, any plane used by carpenters and joiners for
      working a flat surface, as jack planes, long planes.

   bench show, an exhibition of dogs.

   bench table arch., a projecting course at the base of a
      building, or round a pillar, sufficient to form a seat.
      1913 webster
see also:
benches bank beach king's bench bench mark bench mark 
bench of bishops bench plane bench show bench table 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bench \bench\, v. t. imp.  p. p. benched; p. pr.  vb. n.
   benching.
   1. to furnish with benches.
      1913 webster

            't was benched with turf.             --dryden.
      1913 webster

            stately theaters benched crescentwise. --tennyson.
      1913 webster

   2. to place on a bench or seat of honor.
      1913 webster

            whom i . . . have benched and reared to worship.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
benched benching 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bench \bench\, v. i.
   to sit on a seat of justice. r. --shak.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

bench
     n 1: a long seat for more than one person
     2: the reserve players on a team; "our team has a strong bench"
     3: a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity with steep
        slopes above and below syn: terrace
     4: persons who administer justice syn: judiciary
     5: a strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic syn: workbench,
         work bench
     6: the magistrate or judge or judges sitting in court in
        judicial capacity to compose the court collectively
     v 1: take out of a game; of players
     2: exhibit on a bench; "bench the poodles at the dog show"
see also:
terrace judiciary workbench work bench 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

97 moby thesaurus words for "bench":
   british cabinet, sanhedrin, us cabinet, advisory body, agency,
   ambo, assembly, association, atelier, bar, barbershop,
   beauty parlor, beauty shop, board, body of advisers,
   borough council, brain trust, buffet, butcher shop, cabinet,
   camarilla, chair, chamber, city council, common council, company,
   concern, conference, congress, consultative assembly, corporation,
   council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state,
   council of war, counter, county council, court, curule chair, dais,
   deliberative assembly, desk, diet, directory, divan, escritoire,
   establishment, facility, firm, helm, house, installation,
   institution, judgment seat, junta, kitchen cabinet, lectern,
   legislature, loft, mercy seat, mesa, organization, parish council,
   parlor, plateau, privy council, saddle, seat, seat of justice,
   seat of power, seat of state, secretaire, secretary, shop, soviet,
   staff, stand, studio, sweatshop, syndicate, synod, table,
   table mountain, tableland, tribunal, woolsack, work site,
   work space, workbench, workhouse, working space, workplace,
   workroom, workshop, worktable, writing table

[6] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

bench
   deck of a tyrian ship, described by ezekiel 27:6 as overlaid
   with box-wood.
   

[7] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

bench. latin bancus, used for tribunal. in england there are two courts to 
which this word is applied. bancus regius, king's bench bancus communis, 
com-mon bench or pleas. the jus banci, says spelman, properly belongs to the 
king's judges, who administer justice in the last resort. the judges of the 
inferior courts, as of the barons, are deemed to, judge plano pede, and are 
such as are called in the civil law pedanei judices, or by the greeks 
xauaidixastai, that is, humi judicantes. the greeks called the seats of 
their higher judges bumata, and of their inferior judges bathra. the romans 
used the word sellae and tribunalia, to designate the seats of their higher 
judges, and subsellia, to designate those of the lower. see spelman's gloss. 
ad verb. bancus; also, 1 reeves hist. eng. law, 40, 4to ed., and postea 
curia regis. 

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