(p. 721) bān̐kā to bend, to curve (রেখাটি বেঁকেছে); to turn (পথটি এখানে বেঁকেছে); to become reluctant or unfavourable or ungracious or antipathetic (কর্তা বেঁকেছেন). a. bent, curved (বাঁকা বাঁশ); stopping, hunched (বাঁকা পিঠ); slanting, aslant (খুটিখানা বাঁকা); winding, tortuous, sinuous, spiral, roundabout (বাঁকা পথ); furtive, squint, oblique (বাঁকা চাহনি); cynical or unfriendly (বাঁকা দৃষ্টিভঙ্গি); crooked (বাঁকা মন); rude, harsh (বাঁকা কথা); insinuating; sly (বাঁকা উক্তি); reluctant, unfavourable, antipathetic. ̃চোরা a. having many curves and twists; not straightforward, crooked (বাঁকাচোরা কথা). বাঁকানো. v. to bend; to make reluctant or unfavourable or antipathetic. বেঁকে বসা v. to be placed or fixed slantingly; to become reluctant or unfavourable or antipathetic; to revise or retract one's previous opinion, desire, resolve etc., to refuse to fall in with or accede to. 258)

(p. 790) bēsāmāla unable to restrain or check; divested of self-restraint; unrestrained; unguarded; disorderly; embarrassed. 5)

(p. 781) bunana sowing; weaving; knitting. বুননি alt. form of বুনানি (see বুনা). 7)

(p. 738) bāchā2 to choose, to select; to pick and choose; to sort out or separate (ভালোমন্দ বাছা, খুদ বাছা); to eliminate unwanted elements from (চাল বাছা); to pick and eliminate or kill (উকুন বাছা). a. chosen, selected; sorted; freed from unwanted elements; choice, select (বাছা বাছা লোক = chosen or selected persons). 9)

(p. 792) bōṭa a boat. 31)

(p. 741) bātāẏana a window; a ventilator. 12)

(p. 758) bidēha1 modern Mithila (মিথিলা). 9)

(p. 721) bākhāna praise, eulogy; description. 285)

(p. 748) bāhya3 external; exterior; outer; meterial; visible but unreal or superficial (এক বাহ্য). ̃জগত্ n. the material world. ̃জ্ঞান n. knowledge or consciousness about external or surrounding objects; sense-perception: consciousness. ̃জ্ঞানরহিত, ̃জ্ঞানশূন্য a. (so dazed as to be) deprived of consciousness about external or surrounding objects; deprived of sense-perception or consciousness; stupefied; rapt; frantic; beside oneself. ̃ত adv. externally: outwardly; superficially. ̃দৃশ্য n. externnal or outward view or form. ̃বস্তু n. a visible or material object. 60)

(p. 746) bārīndra, bārīśa the occean. 23)

(p. 751) bicalita, bicala agitated, perturbed; swerving, deviation, straying, strayed (ধর্মপথ থেকে বিচলিত); wavering. বিচলিত করা v. to agitate, to perturb; to cause to swerve or stray or waver. বিচলিত হওয়া v. to be agitated or moved; to deviate or swerve. fem. বিচলিতা, বিচলা । 64)

(p. 738) -bāji1 denoting: practice, propensity, repleteness etc. (ফন্দিবাজি). 24)

(p. 748) bāhutra, bāhutrāṇa an armour for the arm, an arm-plate. 52)

(p. 779) buṭa1 chick-pea, gram. 21)

(p. 792) baiśya a member of the third caste amongst Hindus. fem. বৈশ্যা । ̃বৃত্তি n. trade; the profession of a trader; business as a profession. 16)