batali-ar*: (intr.) to (give) battle; -o: battle (between armies); -agro: battlefield; (cf. kombatar, militar). — DEFIRS
batalion-o: (milit.) battalion, — DEFIRS
batel-o: launch, barge, lighter; boat(s) (in general); -eto: small boat, skiff; -edo: boatful; -isto: boatman; -estro: boat-captain; -ponto: bridge of b.s; drag- -o: dredger; exkurs- -o: excursion b.; fish- -o: fishing b.; kanal- -o: canal-b.; karbon- -o: coal-b.; -o de karbono: boat filled with coal; pilot- -o: pilot-b.; rem- -o: row-boat; seglo- -o: sail-b. Def.: General nomo donita ad omnaspeca naveti, ma precipue a naveti di pasable granda dimensioni, quale gabari, e.c. — DFIS
bateri-o: (milit., elec.) battery. — DEFIRS
batist-o: battiste: cambric; -a naztuko: c. pocket-handkerchief. — DeFIRS
batrak-o: (zool.) batrachian. — DEFIS
bav-ar: (intr.) to slobber, drool, slaver; -o-tuko: bib. V. exp.: Bavar esas lasar fluar la salivo ek la boko. Do bavajo esas nur salivo ekfluanta (on povas anke bavar snago, e.c.). — FIS
bay-o: bay (cf. golfo). — DEFIRS bayader-o: bayadere: East-Indian dancing-girl. — DEFIRS
bayonet-o: bayonet; espado- -o: sword-b.; prizentar la -o: to bring the b. to a charge; -agar: to b. (ulu), to use the b.; skermar per la -o: to fence with the b. — DEFIRS
baz-o: base: lowest part of anything, foundation, bottom, foot; (fig.) basis, foundation, grounds; (chem.) base; -ala, -atra: basal, basic; -ajo: something which is basic; basement; -lineo: (math.) base-line; arko- -o: springing (of an arch); sen- -a: baseless; -o-krusto: (cook.) under crust; Ex.: La bazo di monto, di piedestalo, di triangulo, di sistemo, di yusteso, di metalo. — DEFIRS
bazalt-o: (geol.) basalt. — DEFIRS
bazar-o: baza(a)r. — DEFIRS
bazil-o: (bot.) sweet-basil (Ocimum basilicum). — DEFIRS
bazilik-o: (arch.) basilica. — DEFIRS
bazilik-veino: (anat.) basilic vein. — DEF
bazilisk-o: (myth., zool.) basilisk. — DEFI
be-ar: (intr.) to open the mouth, to gape (fig.) to yawn; spektadar -ante: to look gapingly. Def.: Apertar la boko, anke en figurala senco »beanta truo«; III-386. — F
beat-a: blissful, blessed; (iron.) sanctimonious; -eso: (state) bliss; (rel.) beatitude. — DeFIRSL
beatifik-ar*: (tr., Cath., rel.) to beatify. — DEFIRS
bechik-a: (med.) bechic, pectoraclass="underline" cough relieving. — eFIS
bed-o: (agri., hort.) bed; floro- -o: flower-b.; sterko- -o: hot bed, forcing-bed; gazon- -o: grass--plot. — DE
bedel-o: beadle: apparitor; usher. Def.: La nomo di ta qua preiras o sequas la procesioni (generale religiala); VII-43. — DEFIRS
Beduin(ul)o: a Bedouin. — DEFIRS
begin-o: beguine: a kind of nun in the Netherlands; -kofio: b. cap. — DeFIRS
begoni-o: (bot.) begonia. — DEFIRS
bek-o: beak: bill of a bird; (tech.) beak, spout (of a vessel); -edo: a beakful; -agar, -pikar: to peck (at); -agado: pecking; -agar reciproke: to peck at each other; -forma: beak formed; en- -igar, -nutrar: to feed (young birds, etc.). — EFIS
bekafik-o: (orni.) beccafico, garden warbler, fig-eater (Sylvia hortensis). — DEFIS
bekas-o: (orni.) woodcock (Scolopax rusticola); -eto: snipe (Scolopax gallinula). — DEFIRS
bel-a: beautiful, fine, handsome; -eta, -ata: pretty, rather handsome; -(ul)o: a handsome person; -ete: prettily; -ino: a belle; -ajo: a b. object; -eso: (quality) beauty; -et- -eso: prettiness; -acho: fop, cox-comb, insipid beauty; -igar: to beautify, embellish; -eskar: to become, grow b.; -a stroko: a lucky, fine stroke, hit or happening; lo bela: The Beautiful. Ant.: leda —
beladon-o: (bot., med.) belladonna (Atropa belladona). — DEFIRS
belemnit-o: (fossil.) belemnite. — DEFIRS
belveder-o: (arch.) belvedere. DEFIR
bemol-o*: (mus.) flat. — FIRS
bend-o: bank: long, narrow piece of cloth, paper, metal, etc., strip, stripe, streak; fillet (for head), (hat) band; -izar: to bind up, place a band on; sen- -igar: to take off the band, unband; agro- -o: a strip of field; bordo- -o: piping, welt (of cloth); ledro- -o: strip, slip, band of leather; plat- -o: (arch.) platband; -o-segilo: b. saw; (cf. strio). Def.: Surfaco limitizita per du linei paralela; IV - 463. Ex. La standardo di Usa kontenas bendi (alterne reda, blanka), ne strii. — DeFIRS
»benedicite«: grace (before meals). — DFIS
benedik-ar: (tr.) to bless, pronounce a benediction on. — DEFIS
benediktan-o*: Benedictine (monk or nun); kuvento di -i: B. convent. — DEFIRS
benefic-o: (eccl.) benefice, living; reprezento- -o: (theat.) benefit performance (where the proceeds are given to some particular person or purpose); -iero: beneficiary: holder of a benfice; recipient of the profits from a benefit performance. — DEFIRS
Bengal-ucel-o*: (orni.) Bengal finch.
benigna: benign: kind, morally good; mild (of medicines, diseases). — DEFIS
benk-o: bench, long seat, settle, form; (in boats) thwart; -o-veturo: wagonette: wagon with long sets. Def.: Sidilo longa (ligna ex.) kun o sen dors-apogilo; II-647. — DEFIRS
benzin-o: benzine, benzene; -motoro: b. motor. — DEFIRS
benzo-o: (bot.) benzoin; resin from the tree Styrax benzoin. — DEFIRS