(p. 756) bidārā (poet.) same as বিদীর্ণ করা । 57)

(p. 721) bān̐kā to bend, to curve (রেখাটি বেঁকেছে); to turn (পথটি এখানে বেঁকেছে); to become reluctant or unfavourable or ungracious or antipathetic (কর্তা বেঁকেছেন). a. bent, curved (বাঁকা বাঁশ); stopping, hunched (বাঁকা পিঠ); slanting, aslant (খুটিখানা বাঁকা); winding, tortuous, sinuous, spiral, roundabout (বাঁকা পথ); furtive, squint, oblique (বাঁকা চাহনি); cynical or unfriendly (বাঁকা দৃষ্টিভঙ্গি); crooked (বাঁকা মন); rude, harsh (বাঁকা কথা); insinuating; sly (বাঁকা উক্তি); reluctant, unfavourable, antipathetic. ̃চোরা a. having many curves and twists; not straightforward, crooked (বাঁকাচোরা কথা). বাঁকানো. v. to bend; to make reluctant or unfavourable or antipathetic. বেঁকে বসা v. to be placed or fixed slantingly; to become reluctant or unfavourable or antipathetic; to revise or retract one's previous opinion, desire, resolve etc., to refuse to fall in with or accede to. 258)

(p. 800) bratacārī observing a vow; undergoing ascetical austerities or penance. n. a kind of folk-dance. fem. a. ব্রতচারিণী । 6)

(p. 789) bēśyā a prostitute, a harlot, a whore. ̃গিরি, ̃বৃত্তি n. prostitution, harlotry. বেশ্যালয় n. a brothel, a whore-house, a house of ill-fame. ̃সক্ত a. habitually visiting or given to visiting prostitutes. বেশ্যাসক্ত ব্যাক্তি a whore-monger. 24)

(p. 779) bujā, bōjā to shut or close (চক্ষু বুজেছে); to be filled up (গর্ত বোজা). a. shut or closed; filled up. বুজানো v. to shut or close; to fill up. 18)

(p. 746) bārō twelve. বারো হাত কাঁকুড়ের তেরো হাত বীচি an instance of unseemly overmuchness. ̃ই n. the twelfth day of a month. বারো মাস ত্রিশ দিন adv. every day; throughout the year. বারো মাসে তেরো পার্বণ overnumerousness of religious festivities. 30)

(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. 721) baśīkaraṇa act of bringing under one's control, enslavement by enchantment or mesmerism or incantation; enchantment, hypnotization; a weird process to bring somebody under one's control. বশীকরণ করা v. to bring somebody under one's control (esp. by means of some mysterious and weird process); to enchant. বশীকরণ-মন্ত্র n. incantation believed to possess occult power of bringing others under control. 172)

(p. 756) bitaraṇa act of giving away; distribution. বিতরণ করা v. to give away, to distribute. ̃কেন্দ্র n. a distributing centre. 33)

(p. 792) bailakṣaṇya a changed state; change; difference; uncommonness. 11)

(p. 781) bubhukṣā craving for food; hunger. বুভুক্ষিত, বুভুক্ষু a. hungry. 9)

(p. 790) baibāhika matrimonial; nuptial. n. the father-in-law or an uncle-in-law of a son or daughter. fem. n. বৈবাহিকী. (loos. & pop.) বৈবাহিকা the mother-in-law or aunt-in-law of a son or daughter. 54)

(p. 751) bikaśita manifested (বিকশিত মহিমা); displayed, exhibited (বিকশিত দন্ত); arisen, cropped up (বিকশিত ভাব); developed (বিকশিত বুদ্ধি); opened or widened (বিকশিত নেত্র); blown, blooming (বিকশিত পুষ্প). বিকশিত করা v. to manifest; to display, to exhibit, to show; to cause to rise or crop up; to develop; to open or widen; to cause to bloom. বিকশিত হওয়া v. to be revealed or exhibited; to arise, to crop up; to develop; to open or widen; to bloom. 16)

(p. 743) bāmana1 the fifth incarnation of Vishnu (বিষ্ণু) in the shape of a dwarf; a dwarf, a durgan. 40)

(p. 721) bām̐śi, bām̐śari a flute made of a kind of slender bamboo, a reed; a flute, a pipe. বাঁশি বাজানো v. to play on a flute, to pipe. 279)