(p. 721) bāisa2 a gripping tool, a vice. 242)

(p. 790) bēhisāba unestimated, inestimable; unrestrained; improvident; incautious; uneconomical; extravagant. n. absence of estimate or economy; improvidence; lack of caution; extravagance. বেহিসাবি a. unrestrained; uneconomical; incautious; extravagant (বেহিসাবি খরচ). 16)

(p. 747) bārdhaka superannuation. 8)

(p. 721) bāila a stalked leaf of the coconuttree, palm-tree, etc,; a leaf of a door esp. of a folding door. 239)

(p. 742) bādī2 denoting: speaking or accustomed to speak (সত্যবাদী); obedient to or practising an ism, -ist, -istic (সাম্যবাদী). n. a plaintiff or a complainant. ̃-প্রতিবাদী n. complainant and defendant. 17)

(p. 721) bandē mātaram I salute thee, Mother. n. the first two words or (loos.) the title of the national song of India, Bandemataram. 3)

(p. 761) bibarjita completely abandoned or rejected; renounced. fem. বিবর্জিতা ।

(p. 738) bājabairi, bājabahari a species or variety of large falcons; the eagle (?). 18)

(p. 738) bājikara a juggler, a magician; (rare) an acrobat. 26)

(p. 738) bāṭā5 to turn into paste by rolling (spices etc.) on a flat mortar with a pestle. a. (spices etc.) thus reduced to or turned into paste (বাটা মশলা). 45)

(p. 790) bēsudi without interest, bearing no interest, interest-free. 6)

(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. 713) b the twenty-third letter of the Bengali alphabet. 2)

(p. 721) balādhyakṣa the commander of an army; a commander-in-chief. 143)

(p. 792) bōtāma a button. বোতাম পরানো বা লাগানো v. to button; to fit with buttons; to sew a button into. বোতামের ঘর বা ঘাট n. a button-hole. 36)