(p. 767) bimanā absent-minded; inattentive; worried; morose. 20)

(p. 721) bān̐ṭana dividing, apportionment, allotment; distribution. 266)

(p. 782) bēga2 speedy gait, rapidity, swiftness; speed, velocity (esp. in phys.) momentum, impetus; current, flow; desire to evacuate bowels or urinate; trouble or toil (টাকা আদায় করতে বেগ পেতে হয়েছে); severity, virulence (জ্বরের বেগ). বেগ দেওয়া v. to give trouble, to put to difficulty or inconvenience. 56)

(p. 715) baktṛtā a speech, a lecture; a prattling; cloquence; (facet.) a rigmarole. বক্তৃতা করা, বক্তৃতা দেওয়া v. to deliver a speech. to speak. to lecture; to prattle; to indulge in a rigmarole. বক্তৃতা থামাও, বক্তৃতা রাখো stop talking, stop your harangue or garrulity. ̃শক্তি n. speaking power. 3)

(p. 721) bāgdattā betrothed; affianced. n. fem. a betrothed girl. 294)

(p. 746) bāramukhyā a leading prostitute; (loos.) a courtezan. 14)

(p. 748) bāsagṛha a dwelling-house. 12)

(p. 751) bikṣubdha offended, mortified, aggrieved; agitated. 38)

(p. 756) bijñā of বিজ্ঞ । 6)

(p. 767) bilāsa enjoyment of milk and honey; luxury, daintiness and foppery; sport, recreation, pastime; amorous sport, dalliance; wantonness; an assumed artistic gesture or pose. ̃কানন n. a pleasure-garden. ̃কুঞ্জ n. a pleasure-grove. ̃তরণী n. a pleasure-boat. ̃দ্রব্য, ̃সামগ্রী n. luxury goods. ̃পরায়ণ, ̃প্রিয় same as বিলাসী । ̃ব্যসন n. luxury or daintiness; luxurious life. ̃ভবন n. a pleasure-house; a house for wanton frolics. ̃মত্ত a. lost in luxury or wanton frolics. বিলাসিতা n. enjoyment of milk and honey, luxury; daintiness and foppishness; indulgence in unnecessary or wasteful pleasure. বিলাসী a. given to enjoying milk and honey, luxurious; dainty and foppish; fond of sport or pastime; given to amorous sports or dalliance; wanton, sensual. fem. বিলাসিনী । 86)

(p. 743) bādhya preventible, resistible; obedient, obsequious, docile (বাধ্য ছেলে); amenable (সুযুক্তির বাধ্য); obliged (কর্তব্য পালনে বাধ্য); compelled or sure (to) (হার মানতে বাধ্য). বাধ্য করা v. to compel. বাধ্য হয়ে being compelled, under obligation or compulsion. ̃তা n. obedience, obsequiousness, docility; amenability; obligation; compulsion. বাধ্যতাজনক, বাধ্যতামূলক a. compulsory; obligatory; imperative. ̃বাধকতা n. mutual obligations; strictness; rigidity. 3)

(p. 721) baẏa a servant or serving-lad (esp. one employed in a hotel etc.) 24)

(p. 721) basanta the spring season, spring, the springtime; pox, small-pox, chickenpox; an Indian musical mode. ̃কাল n. the spring season, the spring time, spring. ̃কালীন a. of spring; vernal. ̃দূত n. the messenger of spring; the cuckoo. ̃পঞ্চমী n. the fifth lunar day of the light fortnight of Magh (মাঘ) when Goddess Saraswati (সরস্বতী) is worshipped. ̃বায়ু n. vernal breeze, the south wind. ̃সখ n. the friend of spring; the cuckoo. ̃সখা n. one attended upon by Spring; Madana (মদন) the Hindu god of love. বসন্তের কোকিল (fig.) a fair-weather friend. বসন্তোত্সব n. the spring festival; the festival of holi (হোলী). 177)

(p. 782) bēuḍ়bām̐śa a thorny variety of bamboo. 40)

(p. 746) bāri water. ̃দ n. cloud. ̃ধারা n. a shower or stream or torrent of rain. ̃ধি, ̃নিধি n. the sea; the ocean. ̃পাত n. rainfall; a shower of rain. ̃প্রবাহ n. a stream or current of water. ̃বাহ n. cloud. ̃মণ্ডল n. the hydrosphere. ̃রাশি n. a mass of water (esp. of a sea or a river). 21)