(p. 786) bēla3 diapered lace. 87)

(p. 790) baibhaba Godhead; divinity; sanctifying grace, unction; glory; wealth, riches. ̃শালী a. endowed with divinity or unction or glory; wealthy, rich, opulent. 55)

(p. 743) bāpēra janmē never in my life (বাপের জন্মে শুনিনি). 29)

(p. 794) bōla2 speech, language; a word; a note or call (as of birds); a sound; babbling noise (শিশুর বোল); (mus.) a symbolic sound (তবলার বোল); musical notation. 10)

(p. 717) bandiśa (in music) style; style of composition. 69)

(p. 765) bibhaṅga method; plan or design or draft outline of a work. 30)

(p. 800) brāhma relating to Brahma (ব্রহ্ম) or God; endowed with knowledge about God. n. a Brahmo, a Brahmoist. ̃ধর্ম n. Brahmoism. ̃বিবাহ n. act of inviting a bridegroom versed in scriptures and marrying him to a bride with due obeisance; marriage (by registration) in accordance with the rules of the Brahmo Samaj. ̃সমাজ n. the Brahmo Samaj ̃মূহুর্ত n. the period of forty-eighth minute immediately preceding sunrise. 18)

(p. 748) bāhubandhana a hug; an embrace. 53)

(p. 721) basti2, bastī the abdomen; the bladder. ̃শোধন n. a diuretic. 184)

(p. 747) bāli sand; gravel; grit. বালি ধরানো v. (in building construction) to plaster. ̃পূর্ণ, ̃ময় a. sandy; full of sand. বালির বাঁধ (fig.) an ineffectual action or measure (বালির বাঁধ দিয়ে দুঃখ ঠেকানো); (fig.) a transitory object, a deceptive foundation ('বড়র পীরিতি বালির বাঁধ').বালির প্রাসাদ (fig.) a house of cards; a very transitory or deceptive foundation. 26)

(p. 748) bālya age up to one's sixteenth birth day; boyhood or girlhood, childhood, infancy. ̃কাল n. childhood, infancy. ̃প্রণয়, ̃প্রেম n. calf-love; childhood friendship. ̃বন্ধু n. a friend of one's childhood days. ̃বিধবা same as বালবিধবা । see বাল ।̃বিবাহ n. early marriage, child-marriage. ̃শিক্ষা n. child education; primary education. ̃সখা same as বাল্যবন্ধু । ̃সস্গী, ̃সহচর n. a companion of one's childhood days. বাল্যাবস্হা n. childhood. 3)

(p. 794) byāṅgamā a kind of telltale or tattler birds mentioned in folk tales. fem. ব্যাঙ্গমি । 62)

(p. 751) bikēndraṇa decentralization. 27)

(p. 765) bibiẏānā the style of living in ease and foppishness (as of a European lady); adoption of this style by a non-European woman. 18)

(p. 758) biddha pierced; pricked; perforated; bored. বিদ্ধ করা v. to pierce; to prick; to perforate; to bore. ̃পত্র n. (bot.) a perfoliated leaf. 11)