(p. 737) bācana speaking; narration; utterance; a saying; reading; expounding, explanation. বাচনিক a. verbal, oral; in word. 24)

(p. 713) bakanā a young cow that has not yet calved, a heifer. 26)

(p. 715) baca the sweet-flag. 24)

(p. 746) bāraṇa2 prohibition; prevention; resistance. বারণ করা v. to prohibit; to prevent; to resist. বারণীয় a. capable of being prohibited; preventible; resistible. বারণোপায় n. a preventive measure. 7)

(p. 782) bēgatika a helpless or unfavourable or awkward situation; a danger or difficulty; a tight corner. a. helpless or unfavourable; critical or difficult; awkward. 57)

(p. 738) bājā to sound or be sounded (মোটরের হর্ন বাজা); to ring or be rung, to toll (ঘন্টা বাজা); to be played on (বীণা বাজা); to be beaten (ঢাক বাজা); to strike (ঘড়ি বাজা, তিনটে বাজা); to be announced by a sound (প্রহর বাজা); to be felt (হাতে বাজ); to jar on (কানে বাজা); to smart or pain (মনে বাজা). ঘড়ি বাজে the clock chimes or strikes. ঘড়িতে একটা বাজে the clock strikes one, it is one o'clock. স্কুলের ঘন্টা বাজ the school-bell goes. 21)

(p. 741) bātula neurotic; mad, insane; crazy. বাতুলতা n. neurosis; madness, insanity; craziness. 21)

(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. 717) badhū a wife; a newly married woman; a bride; a married woman; a daughter-in-law (usu. বধূমাতা). ̃জন n. a married woman esp. one whose husband is alive. ̃বরণ n. ceremoniously welcoming a bride or a daughter-in-law. ̃মাতা n. the daughter-in law. ̃হত্যা n. killing or murder of a married woman (usu.) in the husband's or father-in-law's house. 40)

(p. 756) bidāẏa1 a gift or present, anything given in charity (ব্রাহ্মণবিদায়, কাঙালবিদায়). 52)

(p. 789) bēlāmukha the beach-head. 9)

(p. 790) baidarbha of Bidarbha (বিদর্ভ) a province of India. fem. বৈদর্ভী । বৈদর্ভী রীতি a style of literary composition in which compound words are avoided as far as practicable and great attention is paid to sweetness of diction. 38)

(p. 717) baṇikasaṅgha a corporation or association of the traders; a guild. 12)

(p. 721) bardhaka causing or promoting increase or growth or development or improvement or prosperity or expansion, augmentative, multiplicative. 110)

(p. 747) bālighaḍ়i a sand-glass. 28)