(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. 790) baināśika destructive, ruinous; cataclysmic. 49)

(p. 767) birōdha enmity, hostility; a quarrel, a dispute, a contention, a difference; a war; strife; disagreement; disharmony; mutual opposition or contradiction; antipathy; incongruity, dissimilarity. বিরোধ করা v. to quarrel; to oppose. ̃মূলক a. opposing; antagonistic. বিরোধাভাস n. (rhet.) a figure of speech in which things apparently contradictory exist side by side (cp. oxymoron, epigram). বিরোধিতা n. hostility, enmity; rivalry; opposition; antagonism; disagreement; antipathy. বিরোধী a. hostile, inimical; contending; rival; opposing; opponent; antagonistic; disagreeing; adverse. বিরোধী পক্ষ an opposite or hostile or rival party; an opponent; (in legislature) the opposition. 70)

(p. 765) bibhāga division; partition: apportionment; distribution; a division (of a country etc.); a part, a portion, a section; department (বিচারবিভাগ). বিভাগ করা v. to divide; to partition; to apportion; to distribute. বিভাগী a. fissile. বিভাগী-ছত্রাক n. a fission fungus. বিভাগীশৈবাল n. a fission alga. বিভাগীয় a. divisional, sectional; departmental (বিভাগীয় কর্তা = the departmental head, বিভাগীয় বিপণি = a departmental store). 35)

(p. 794) byārāma a disease, an ailment, a malady. 98)

(p. 742) bādā an extensive marsh or fen; a wooded region. 7)

(p. 785) bēḍ়i a shackle or chain (কোমরের বেড়ি); fetters, (poet.) gyves; a kind of tongs for gripping cooking utensils (হাত বেড়ি). বেড়ি পড়ানো v. to shackle; to fetter, (poet.) to gyve. 24)

(p. 721) bān̐dipōtā a chequered cloth having multi-coloured stripes. 271)

(p. 767) biraha absence or want; separation or estrangement esp. from one's lover (বন্ধুবিরহ). বিরহিণী fem. of বিরহী । বিরহিত a. devoid or destitute of (সুখবিরহিত); wanting in (কর্মবিরহিত); separated or estranged from; disjointed, detached; freed from (বন্ধনবিরহিত). fem. বিরহিতা । বিরহী a. separated or estranged from one's lover. বিরহে adv. in the absence of, away from (প্রিয়ার বিরহে). 56)

(p. 790) baidya a physician; a healer; one of an upper-class Hindu caste. বৈদ্যক same as বৈদ্যশাস্ত্র । ̃নাথ n. Shiva (শিব) (whose image is installed at Deoghar). ̃শালা n. a clinic; a hospital. ̃শাস্ত্র same as আয়ুর্বেদ । ̃সংকট n. miscarriage of treatment on account of being treated by numerous physicians simultaneously. 44)

(p. 794) byākhyēẏa that which is to be or can be explained; explainable. 58)

(p. 761) binirṇīta ascertained; awarded (by arbitration, tribunals etc.). 33)

(p. 721) bahbāḍ়mbara excessive pomp or éclat; great fuss. 230)

(p. 751) bicchinna separated; torn or broken away; detached; isolated; estranged; stray or sporadic. fem. বিচ্ছিন্না । বিচ্ছিন্ন করা v. to separate; to tear or break away; to detach; to isolate; to estrange; to alienate. বিচ্ছিন্নতা n. separation; detachment; isolation; secession; estrangement; alienation; lack of compactness, strayness. বিচ্ছিন্নতাবাদ n. separatism; disintegration. বিচ্ছিন্নতাবাদী n. & a. separatist; a separatist. 74)

(p. 721) bān̐dha a dam; a breakwater, a bulwark; (geog.) a dyke. বাঁধ দেওয়া v. to dam. (fig.) to restrain. বাঁধ নির্মান করা, বাঁধ বাঁধা v. to build a dam or breakwater or dyke. 273)