(p. 782) bṛtti faculty (চিত্তবৃত্তি); nature or propensity (নীচবৃত্তি); conduct (বকবৃত্তি); a calling, a vocation, a profession, a trade (চৌর্যবৃত্তি); a regular money allowance, a stipend, a scholarship; narration; elucidation, explanation (সূত্রের বৃত্তি) recountal. ̃জীবী a. one who lives by engaging oneself in a vocation or profession; engaged in a profession. বৃত্তি দান করা v. to give or award or endow a stipend or scholarship. ̃প্রশিক্ষণ n. vocational training. ̃প্রাপ্ত a. recipient of a scholarship. বৃত্তিপ্রাপ্ত ছাত্র n. a scholar; a scholarship-holder. ̃মূলক a. vocational. ̃শিক্ষা n. vocational education. 6)

(p. 781) bubhukṣā craving for food; hunger. বুভুক্ষিত, বুভুক্ষু a. hungry. 9)

(p. 721) balānbita powerful; strong; having armed forces or soldiers. 145)

(p. 785) bēji the mongoose, the ichneumon. 12)

(p. 782) bēimāna perfidious, unfaithful, false; (loos.) false to one's religious faith (esp. to Islam). বেইমানি n. perfidy. 39)

(p. 790) baijñānika scientific (বৈজ্ঞানিক গবেষণা); versed in science. n. (loos.) a scientist. 30)

(p. 767) bilupta faded away, vanished; extinct; destroyed, annihilated; abolished. 91)

(p. 721) baẏasa age; agedness (বয়স ঢাকা পড়া); youth or majority. বয়স হওয়া v. to come of age; to grow old, to become aged. বয়সের গাছ পাথর নেই (fig.) hoary with age. বয়সের ধর্ম the natural property or tendency of age. ̃কাল n. youth; majority, adulthood; one's greener days. ̃-ফোঁড়া n. an acne. বয়সা n. breaking or cracking of voice on attaining adolescence. বয়সী a. of a particular age (বালকবয়সী); equal in age (আমার বয়সী); advanced in age, aged, old. বয়সোচিত a. right and proper for one's age, befitting one's age, natural to a particular age. 31)

(p. 737) bāṅniṣṭha true to one's word, one who keeps his word or promise. 16)

(p. 713) bakamakāṭha a kind of tree or its timber. 30)

(p. 743) bādha2 a flood, a deluge; a kind of tidal wave, a bore, an eagre (গঙ্গার বান); (fig.) a great flourish (আনন্দের বান). বান ডাকা v. to rise in flood, to be in flood or deluge; to rise in bore or eagre; (fig.) to flourish greatly. বানে ভেসে যাওয়া v. to be swept off or carried off in a flood; to be overflooded. 5)

(p. 761) binati stooping; bowing (in salutation); modesty, demureness, submissiveness; politeness; discipline. 7)

(p. 751) bikrīḍ়ita various sports and frolics, gambol. 32)

(p. 738) bāṭā3 a kind of metal tray (esp. one for holding betel-leaves). 43)

(p. 721) barṣa a year; (myth.) any one of the nine divisions of Jambu (জম্বু) or Asia; rain; cloud; shower or fall (তুষারবর্ষ). ̃কাল n. a period of one year; a full calendar year. ̃জীবী a. lasting or living for a year only; annual. বর্ষজীবী উদ্ভিদ an annual plant, an annual. ̃প্রবেশ n. New Year's Day (chiefly according to the Bengali calendar). ̃বলয় n. (bot.) the annual ring. ̃মান n. rain-gauge. 119)