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barit (t, m), n. the cuscus, = bait. 



baropudaipa, barpudan, balopudan, v. to buy ; nanu aigar barpudan, 

 her living, i.e., her food buying. Mark, xii. 44. 



baruder (m), n. mud. Cf. baradar. 



batainga, n. the morning ; (m) to-morrow. 



bau, n. the sea ; a wave of the sea ; bau sik, n. waves. Mark, iv. 37. 



bau, n. a spear. 



baua (m), a. flat, plain, 



bauka (?), mosan bauka weidaman, to foam at the mouth. Mark, ix. 

 18, 20. 



beagi (m), exclam. a call to a blind person. 



beara, n. the ribs. Cf. hero. 



bege, n. a cloud. 



beibasa, n. eyebrow. Cf. babasum. 



beidum (m), n. a shark, = baidam. 



bepa, suffix, for. 



berai (?), berai-pungaipa v. to be easy. Mark, x. 25. 



beribei kar, n. a rope fence. 



bare, n. the ribs, chest, side of the body. Cf. beara. 



bero-pui, n. a lath (lit. rib-wood). 



bete (m), n. drift-wood. 



bia, suffix. 



bidu (m), n. the porpoise. 



bigu, n. a bull roarer with a low and deep note (406). 



biia (m), n. a bird, the goatsucker. 



biiu, n. the mangrove. " A gray slimy paste used as food, and pro- 

 cured from a species of mangrove ( Candelia ?), the sprouts of 

 which, three or four inches long, are first made to undergo a 

 process of baking and steaming — a large heap being laid upon 

 heated stones, and covered over with bark, wet leaves, and 

 sand — after which they are beaten between two stones, and 

 the pulp is scraped out fit for use." Macgillivray, ii. p. 26. 



bila (m), n. the parrot fish. 



binibini (s), n. a cup ; (b) a soup-plate (?) ; binibini alabasa, an ala- 

 baster box. Mark, xiv. 3. 



bipi (?), (s), n. the nose. 



biraig, n. a table. 



birgesera. (Ethnography, p. 415). 



