(p. 756) bijña learned, erudite; wise; experienced; expert; judicious, prudent. ̃তা, ̃ত্ব n. erudition, learning; wisdom; experience; expertness; judiciousness, prudence. 4)

(p. 773) biṣāda low spirits, dejection; melancholy; sorrow, sadness; grief. ̃গ্রস্ত, বিষাদিত, বিষাদী a. low-spirited, dejected, down-hearted, down in the mouth; melancholy; sorrowful, sad; full of grief. fem. ̃গ্রস্তা, বিষাদিতা, বিষাদিনী । 32)

(p. 758) -bidha sort, kind, type etc. (বহুবিধ = of many kinds.) 24)

(p. 800) brāhmiśāka Bacopa monnieri, a herb used chiefly as medicine. 21)

(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. 781) buruja a bastion; a rampart; a dome; a kind of card-playing. 10)

(p. 782) bṛhattara of বৃহত্ । 26)

(p. 748) bāstu a dwelling-place; a dwelling; a dwelling-house; a piece of land on which a dwelling-house stands, a homestead; (also বাস্তুভিটা); a permanent and usually ancestral homestead (also বাস্তুগৃহ); buildings. ̃কর্ম n. building-construction; public works. ̃কার n. a civil engineer. ̃কৃত্যক n. the engineering service. ̃ঘুঘু n. (fig.) a vile person who resides irremovably in a family and brings it to ruin. ̃দেবতা ̃পুরুষ n. the guardian or tutelar deity of a homestead or family. ̃ভিটা n. homestead. ̃সংস্হান n. provision for dwelling. ̃সাপ n. a snake living in a house for a long time and without harming anybody. ̃হারা a. displaced from a homestead. n. a displaced person. 38)

(p. 721) bān̐daralāṭhi the drumstick tree, Cassia fistula. 270)

(p. 789) bēlānila sea-breeze. 5)

(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. 743) bāndhaba a kinsman; a relation; a friend; an ally. fem. বান্ধবী a kinswoman; a woman relation; a lady friend; a girl friend. 16)

(p. 765) bibhābasu the sun. 43)

(p. 737) bāgbahula verbose, full of words, having too many words; prolix. বাগ্বাহুল্য n. verbosity; prolixity. 2)

(p. 751) bin̐dha a bore, a perforation, a hole. বিঁধা, বেঁধা v. to be pierced or pricked; to pierce or prick; to perforate, to bore (কান বেঁধা). বিঁধানো v. to pierce; to prick; to perforate, to bore; to cause to be pierced or pricked or bored. 3)