(p. 721) bān̐dhana binding or fastening; a tie, a knot (বাঁধন খুলে দাও); damming; obstruction; stopping or parking (as of a vehicle); restraining or appeasement (as of one's mind); composition; formation; construction, building, setting up; turning, attunement; unification; reduction or rendering; compactness (কথার বাঁধন). ̃হারা a. free, unbridled, unrestrained. বাঁধনি n. binding or fastening; a tie, a knot; due arrangement, methodicalness, order (কাজের বাঁধনি); compactness. 274)

(p. 773) biśliṣṭa disunited, detached, disjointed; separated; analysed. বিশ্লিষ্ট করা v. to disunite, to detach, to disjoin; to separate; to analyse. 24)

(p. 751) bikartana the sun. 8)

(p. 747) bāla a male child, a boy; (in comp.) a child. ̃ক্রীড়া n. boyish sport; a child's play. ̃খিল্য n. (myth.) any one of the sixty thousand ascetics who were not more than a thumb in height; a Lilliputian, a midget, a pygmy. ̃চর্যা n. bringing up children. ̃চাপল্য n. childish flippancy or frolicsomeness. ̃বাচ্চা n. young or infant children, (sl.) kiddies, ̃বিধবা n. a child-widow. ̃বৈধব্য n. widowhood at a very early age. ̃ভাষিত n. the utterance of a childlike talk or prattle; (fig.) an utterance of no importance, babble. ̃রোগ n. a children's disease; an infantile disease, (med.) pediatric diseases. ̃শশী n. the moon of the second lunar night of a light fortnight. ̃সুলভ a. childlike, childish. ̃সূর্য n. the newly-risen sun; the rising sun. 14)

(p. 743) bānurē monkeyish; apish; very mischievous. 14)

(p. 743) bāpa-ṭhākuradādā, bāpadādā ancestors, forefathers. 21)

(p. 781) bṛkka the kidney. বৃক্কাকার n. kidneyshaped, reniform.

(p. 721) baliẏē having good speaking power, eloquent; having the gift of the gab. বলিয়ে-কইয়ে a. having the gift of good talking, eloquent. 153)

(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) ballā (dial.) the wasp. 166)

(p. 790) bēhāla worn-out; disorganised; in total disarray; in a wretched condition. 14)

(p. 782) bṛddhi augmentation, increase; growth; development; enlargement; rise (মূল্যবৃদ্ধি); advancement (জাতির শিক্ষাবৃদ্ধি); flourish; (bot.) accrescence; interest on money (চক্রবৃদ্ধি); usury, বৃদ্ধি পাওয়া v. to augment, to increase; to grow up; to develop; to be enlarged, to enlarge; to rise; to advance; to flourish; (bot.) to accrete. ̃কার a. promoting or helping growth. ̃কাল n. the period of growth. মুখ্য বৃদ্ধিকাল (bot.) the grand period of growth. ̃জ a. concerning growth. বৃদ্ধিজ চলন (bot.) a growth movement. ̃জীবী n. a usurer. ̃দশা n. (bot.) a phase of growth. ̃প্রাপ্ত a. enlarged; grown; grown outsize. ̃বিস্তার n. (bot.) distribution of growth. ̃হার n. (bot.) the rate of growth. ̃শীল a. augmentating, increasing; growing; developing; enlarging; rising; advancing; flourishing; (bot.) accrescent. ̃শ্রাদ্ধ n. an obsequial rite in honour of manes (usu. performed on the eve of a marriage-ceremony etc.). 14)

(p. 721) baẏēta a couplet (esp. one in Arabic or Persian or Urdu). 38)

(p. 779) bakuni a particle; affected witty talk or remarks; tall talk; ludicrous mixture of a foreign language with one's own. বকুনি ঝাড়া v. (infor.) to indulge in witty talk or remarks affectedly; talk big; to mix a foreign language ludicrously with one's own. 15)

(p. 743) bāmācāra a religious practice, prescribed in Tantrism, to be performed by a man in collaboration with a woman. বামাচারী n. a follower of this practice. 45)