(p. 748) bāstu a dwelling-place; a dwelling; a dwelling-house; a piece of land on which a dwelling-house stands, a homestead; (also বাস্তুভিটা); a permanent and usually ancestral homestead (also বাস্তুগৃহ); buildings. ̃কর্ম n. building-construction; public works. ̃কার n. a civil engineer. ̃কৃত্যক n. the engineering service. ̃ঘুঘু n. (fig.) a vile person who resides irremovably in a family and brings it to ruin. ̃দেবতা ̃পুরুষ n. the guardian or tutelar deity of a homestead or family. ̃ভিটা n. homestead. ̃সংস্হান n. provision for dwelling. ̃সাপ n. a snake living in a house for a long time and without harming anybody. ̃হারা a. displaced from a homestead. n. a displaced person. 38)

(p. 738) bāṭapāḍ় a highwayman; a robber; a swindler. বাটপাড়ি n. highway robbery; robbery; swindling. চোরের উপর বাটপাড়ি (fig.) a swindler robs a thief. 41)

(p. 786) bēla5 a bell. বেল পড়েছে, বেল বাজছে v. the bell goes. 89)

(p. 741) bāthuẏā, bēthō a variety of spinach. 24)

(p. 721) baraphi a kind of rhomb-shaped sweetmeat made of condensed cowmilk. 59)

(p. 786) bēphām̐sa divulged; uttered off guard, imprudently uttered (বেফাঁস কথা); unrestrained, loose, free (বেফাঁস মুখ). 68)

(p. 751) bici a stone or seed of a fruit. বিচিগজগজে a. full of seeds. 68)

(p. 767) bilba a kind of shell-fruit; the marmelos. ̃পত্র n. a leaf of the bel (বেল) tree. ̃স্তনী n. fem. having breasts as round and beautiful as a pair of bel (বেল) fruits. 100)

(p. 779) bujha consolation; gumption; mutual understanding or agreement; explanation or manipulation (হিসাবের বুঝ); বুঝ থাকা v. to have mutual understanding or agreement. বুঝ দেওয়া v. to console or comfort; to explain or manipulate (accounts). বুঝ মানা v. to agree to be consoled, to accept consolation. ̃সুঝ n. gumption and patience. 19)

(p. 782) bṛhat huge, big, large; extensive, vast; tall, high; long, important; complicated, big (বৃহত্ ব্যাপার); magnanimous (বৃহত্ হৃদয়); pompous (বৃহত্ কান্ড). ̃কায় a. big-bodied, gigantic, huge, colossal, bulky. 23)

(p. 717) baṇigbṛtti trade; traffic; trading; commercial spirit, commercialism. 14)

(p. 773) bisarjana giving up or renouncing; abandonment; renouncing, renouncement; renunciation; relinquishment; sacrifice (জীবনবিসর্জন); loss (বন্ধুবিসর্জন); waste or impairment (স্বাস্হ্যবিসর্জন); immersion esp. with solemnities (প্রতিমাবিসর্জন); immersion of the image of a deity (বিসর্জনের বাদ্য). বিসর্জন করা, বিসর্জন দেওয়া v. to give up; to abandon; to relinquish; to sacrifice; to lose; to waste or impair; to immerse esp. with solemnities. বিসর্জনীয় a. to be given up or abandoned or relinquished or sacrificed or lost or wasted or impaired or immersed. 44)

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

(p. 758) bidhātā a director, a controller, a regulator (ভাগ্যবিধাতা); God; Providence; Brahma (ব্রহ্ম). ̃পুরুষ n. Providence personified (who is believed to write down the future of a newborn baby on its forehead).

(p. 756) biṭanuna, biṭalabaṇa a black variety of salt. 16)