(p. 717) bandimukti release or liberation of prisoners. 67)

(p. 782) bṛthā futile, abortive, ineffectual, fruitless; useless (বৃথা বাক্যব্যয়); purposeless (বৃথা ভ্রমণ). adv. in vain; to no purpose; uselessly. 9)

(p. 773) biśrabdha confidential (বিশ্রব্ধ আলাপ); profound (বিশ্রব্ধ জ্ঞান); very intimate (বিশ্রব্ধ বন্ধু); tranquil; fearless. 18)

(p. 751) bikalāṅga crippled, physically handicapped; having defective limbs; disabled; (loos.) deformed.বিকলাঙ্গ লোক a cripple. 13)

(p. 751) bikṛta perverted; corrupted, vitiated; decomposed (বিকৃত শব); morbid (বিকৃত মন); deranged; deformed (বিকৃত অঙ্গ); disfigured (বিকৃত চেহারা); monstrous or revolting (বিকৃত মূর্তি). বিকৃত করা v. to pervert; to corrupt, to vitiate; to deprave; to decompose; to affect with morbidity; to derange; to disfigure; to make unnatural (as voice). ̃কন্ঠ n. unnatural or affected voice; hoarse voice; gruff voice. a. speaking in an unnatural or affected voice (esp. to conceal one's natural voice); speaking in a hoarse or in a gruff voice. ̃চরিত্র a. corrupted or vitiated in character, depraved. ̃বুদ্ধি a. perverted in thoughts, evil-minded, wrong-headed. ̃মস্তিষ্ক a. mentally deranged, insane; crazy. ̃রুচি a. perverted in taste. n. a perverted taste. ̃স্বভাব a. perverted in nature, peevish. ̃স্বর same as বিকৃতকন্ঠ । বিকৃতি n. perversion; corruption, vitiation; decomposition, morbidity; derangement; deformity; disfigurement, disfiguration. 26)

(p. 715) baṭā to be (সে চালাক বটে). 39)

(p. 765) bibidha of many and different kinds, sundry, diverse, various; miscellaneous. ̃পত্রী a. (bot.) heterophily. 17)

(p. 767) birēcana evacuation of the intestines, purgation. 68)

(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. 721) bāiśa twenty-two. বাইশে n. the twenty-second day of a month, the twenty-second. a. twenty-second. 240)

(p. 773) bījana fanning. বীজন করা v. to fan. 86)

(p. 794) byañjaka expressing, signifying, indicative (of); suggesting, implying. 23)

(p. 773) bītarāga having lost interest (in) or attachment (to), disaffected; apathetic; disgusted. 91)

(p. 800) brahma1 Burma (also ব্রহ্মদেশ). ̃বাসী a. Burmese. n. a Burmese, a Burman. fem. ব্রহ্মবাসিনী । 10)

(p. 792) baiśākha the first month of the Bengali calendar (from the middle of April to the middle of May). বৈশাখী a. of Baisakh (বৈশাখী পূর্ণিমা). বৈশাখী ঝড় a northwester or nor-wester. 12)