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, pectoral: 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
benzoat-o*: benzoate (a salt); -acido: aenzoic
acid. — DEF
benzol-o*: benzol(e). — DEFIRS
bequadr-o*:(mus.) natural. — FIRS
ber-o: berry; -atra: bacciform, berry-like; -port-anta,
-if-anta: bacciferous, berry producing; vit- -o:
grape; sika vit- -o: raisin; frangul- -o:
alder-berry; muskat- -o: muscatel grapes. — DE
Berberi-a, -ala: of, relating to Barbary; Berber-o:
a Berber. — DEFIRS
