(p. 790) baiṭhaka a club, an assembly, a majlis; a conference, a meeting; a sitting; a hookahstand; a system of physical exercise by repeated sitting down and standing up alternately. ̃খানা n. a drawing-room, a parlour, a salon; a lounge. বৈঠকি a. suitable for an assembly or party (বৈঠকি গান বা গল্প). 31)

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

(p. 721) barāta charge, commission (কাজের বরাত); order (often pl.); necessity or business (এদিকে একটু বরাত ছিল); authority to represent, assignment; order (to supply goods): fate, luck (মন্দ বরাত). বরাত দেওয়া v. to entrust a charge, to commission; to authorize or assign. ̃চিঠি n. a letter of authority or assignment; (comm.) a bill of exchange. ̃গুণে adv. by virtue of good luck. ̃জোরে adv. through good luck, through a stroke of luck. বরাতি a. (of a task) entrusted. 66)

(p. 758) -bidha sort, kind, type etc. (বহুবিধ = of many kinds.) 24)

(p. 756) biṭaṅka a pigeon-house, a dovecote; a trap for catching brids, a fowling-net. 15)

(p. 748) bāsana1 perfuming; incensing. 13)

(p. 721) barṣaṇa rainfall; rain (বর্ষণহীন মেঘ); raining; act of falling down in a stream; showering; a shower; act of scattering or sprinkling or dispersing upon (আতরবর্ষণ কিরণবর্ষণ); (fig.) gracious bestowal (আশীর্বাদবর্ষণ, ধন্যবাদবর্ষণ, উপহারবর্ষণ). বর্ষণ করা v. to rain upon, to shower, to scatter or sprinkle or disperse upon; to bestow graciously (upon). ̃মুখর a. vibrant with the patter of rain. ̃শীল a. disposed to rain; raining. বর্ষণোন্মুখ a. on the point of coming down as rain; on the point of raining; (fig.) on the point of weeping, tearful (বর্ষণোন্মুখ আঁখি). 120)

(p. 767) bilakula entirely, wholly; unreservedly, outright; thoroughly, completely; altogether. 73)

(p. 781) burjōẏā a bourgeois; the bourgeoisie; the well-to-do class or a person belonging to it. a. bourgeois; well-to-do. 13)

(p. 721) bān̐dhā2 to bind, to tie, to fasten; to obstruct (স্রোত বাঁধা); to dam (খাল বাঁধা); to stop or park (গা়ড়ি বাঁধা); to restrain or appease (মন বাঁধা); to compose (গান বাঁধা); to form, to do (খোঁপা বাঁধা); to build or set up (ঘর বাঁধা); to attune (বীণা বাঁধা); to unite (প্রাণে প্রাণে বাঁধা); to be reduced to or rendered into, to turn into (জমাট বাঁধা, দান বাঁধা). a. bound; tied, fastened, obstructed; dammed; composed; formed, done; built, set up; attuned; routine (বাঁধা কাজ); regular (বাঁধা খদ্দের); stock (বাঁধা গত্); rigid (বাঁধা নিয়ম); fixed (বাঁধা মাইনে); brick-built or stone-built, pucka (বাঁধা ঘাট). বাঁধাই n. binding or cost of binding esp. a book; enframing or cost of enframing (as a picture). ̃কপি n. cabbage. বাঁধা গত্ a stock phrase; a rigid rule or system. ̃ছাদা n. rolling up and tying as a baggage. বাঁধাছাদা করা v. to pack. ̃ধরা a. fixed; rigid; routine; stock; monotonous, trite. ̃ঝুলি n. a catchphrase, a catchword, a slogan. বাঁধানো v. to bind (as a book); to enframe (as a picture); to fix or manufacture artificial ones (দাঁত বাঁধানো); to inlay (হিরে দিয়ে বাঁধানো); to plate (সোনা দিয়ে বাঁধানো); to pave, to macadamize (রাস্তা বাঁধানো); to build with stone or brick (ঘাট বাঁধা); to dam (খাল বাঁধানো); to cause to compose (গান বাঁধানো); to cause to build or set up (ঘর বাঁধানো); to cause to attune (বীণা বাঁধা); to reduce to or render into (জমাট বাঁধানো). a. bound; enframed; artificial (বাঁধানো দাঁত = a set of artificial teeth, denture); inlaid; plated; paved, macadamized; brick-built or stone-built, pukka; dammed; built or set up. ̃বাঁধি a. fixed, hard and fast, unalterable. n. a rigid rule or system; strictness. 276)

(p. 717) banduka a gun, a rifle, a bundook, a musket, a matchlock; a pistol, a revolver. ̃ধারী a. armed with or carrying a gun or rifle. বন্দুকধারী লোক a gunman; a musketeer, a rifleman. 71)

(p. 741) bāthāna a cowhouse, a cattle-shed; a grazing ground, a pasture. 23)

(p. 779) buḍ়ā1 to sink, to be submerged, to be immersed. ̃নো v. to drown, to submerge, to immerse; to dip (জলে পা বুড়ানো). 24)

(p. 794) byāmiśra (bot.) polygamous. 94)

(p. 721) bahiṣkṛta driven out, expelled; removed; ejected, banished; extracted; drained. 220)