(p. 785) bēṇi, bēṇī a braid, a plait; pigtail; a tress; a stream (ত্রিবেণী). বেণি বাঁধা v. to tress; to braid, to plait. ̃বদ্ধ a. tressed. ̃সংহার n. braiding or plaiting the hair; tressing the hair into a plait. 29)

(p. 779) bīthi, bīthikā, bīthī a row, a line (তরুবীথি, পণ্যবীথি); an avenue, a vista. 5)

(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. 748) bāsi washed; placed for washing; not washed or cleansed since morning (বাসি মুখ, বাসি ঘর); stale, not fresh (বাসি দুধ, বাসি খবর); used or made or collected etc. overnight (বাসি কাপড় বা ভাত বা মাল বা জল). বাসি করা v. to wash (কাপড় বাসি করা). বাসি বিয়ে solemnities to be performed on the morning following the wedding night. বাসি মড়া the body of a person dead overnight. 29)

(p. 713) buli an earring or eardrop (বীরবউলি) 11)

(p. 748) bāhubala physical strength. ̃দৃপ্ত a. proud of physical stregnth or vigour. 54)

(p. 782) bēkānuna illegal. 50)

(p. 738) bājana the state of being played or beaten or sounded or rung (as a musical instrument, bell, coin etc.); the sound of beating or playing on a musical instrument, a bell etc. ̃দার, বাজনাদার, বাজনাওয়ালা n. an instrumentalist (esp. a professional one). বাজনা n. act or sound of playing on a musical instrument; music; a musical instrument. 17)

(p. 746) bāruṇī a variety of wine; wine; the west; a bathing festival held on the eve of the fourteenth lunar day of the darkfortnight of Chaitra (চৈত্র); the wife of the sea god (cp. Tethys). 25)

(p. 741) bātila forsaken or disowned; rejected; (law) void, set aside; annulled, rescinded; cancelled. বাতিল করা v. to forsake or disown; to reject; (law) to void, to set aside; to annul, to rescind; to cancel. 19)

(p. 781) buli speech, language, a word or phrase or lingo or jargon (ইংরেজি বুলি); babble or prattle (as of a child or bird); a crammed speech; a maxim; a slogan. বুলি আওড়ানো v. to babble or prattle; to utter a crammed speech or a maxim or a slogan; to talk jargon; to use cliches (esp. of foreign origin) in one's speech. বুলি ঝাড়া v. same as বুলি আওড়ানো (except in the first sense). বাঁধা বুলি n. cant, a cliche. 16)

(p. 792) baisādṛśya dissimilarity; inequality, disparity; difference. 20)

(p. 773) biśbāsya believable, credible; trustworthy, reliable. 16)

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

(p. 721) bahirdbikhanḍaka (geom.) an external bisector. 209)