Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader Part 84

=basura=, _f._, sweepings; withered leaves in a forest.

=basurero=, _m._, dust or garbage collector; dungyard.

=batata=, _f._ (_Sp. A._), sweet potato.

=batey=, _m._, machinery and other appurtenances of a sugar-mill; (_Cuba_) the factory itself.

=batir=, to beat, to stir briskly.

=baul-comoda=, _m._, wardrobe trunk.

=bautismo=, _m._, baptism.

=bazar=, _m._ (_Sp. A._), store where household goods are sold.

=becerro=, _m._, yearling calf.

=beduino, -a=, Bedouin, Arab of the desert.

=begona=, _f._, a S. A. fish.

=bejucos=, _m._, creeping plants which climb on trees.

=beneficiar=, to work and improve a mine; (_Sp. A._) to quarter cattle or sheep.

=benteveo=, _m._, South American bird, so named because of its curious cry.

=berenjena=, _f._, egg-plant.

=bergantin=, _m._, brig, brigantine.

=bermejo, -a=, of a bright reddish color.

=berrear=, to bleat like a calf.

=berza=, _f._, cabbage.

=biblioteca=, _f._, library; bookcase; =---- giratoria=, revolving bookcase.

=bienes raices=, _m. pl._, real estate.

=billete=, _m._, ticket.

=bisagra=, _f._, hinge.

=bisoneria=, _f._ (_Sp. A._), lack of experience in the habits of a country.

=bizcochuelo=, _m._ (_Sp. A._), spongecake.

=blanquear=, to whitewash.

=blanquecino, -a=, whitish.

=bocado=, _m._, bit of a bridle.

=boceto=, _m._, sketch; =---- comico=, a short comedy.

=bocha=, _f._, wooden ball; the game of bowls.

=bodega=, _f._, storehouse; wine vault, _hence_, the establishment where wine is made; (_Sp. A._), grocery.

=bodegon=, _m._, a squalid eating-house.

=bofetada=, _f._, slap, box, blow in the face with the open hand.

=boga=, _f._, a fish.

=bohio=, _m._, palm-thatched hut (_West Indies_).

=boina=, _f._, flat, round woolen cap; cap originally worn by the Carlists.

=boldo=, _m._, a medicinal plant found in Chile, used also to color wine.

=boleadora=, _f._ (_Sp. A._), bifurcated ropes, with weights at the extremities of the bifurcated sections, thrown about the legs of cattle to be caught.

=boliche=, _m._ (_Sp. A._), the game of ten-pins.

=bolos=, the game of ten-pins.

=bolsa=, _f._, bag, purse; =---- de comercio=, stock exchange.

=bollo=, _m._, small roll made of fine flour.

=bomba=, _f._, pump.

=bombilla=, _f._, narrow metal tube ending in a spoon-shaped covered, but perforated, bowl used in drinking mate.

=boneteria=, _f._, department in dry-goods stores where knitted goods are sold.

=bonito=, _m._, South American fish of fine flavor.

=bordado=, _m._, embroidery.

=borde=, _m._, strip.

=borla=, _f._, ta.s.sel.

=borracha=, _f._, name applied in Brazil to the rubber tree, sometimes used in Spanish America also.