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===== bizonyos  =====

*Hungarian word for "certain, sure."

===== bizonyságok  =====

*Hungarian word for "testimonies, (witnesses)."

===== bizonytalan  =====

*Hungarian word for "uncertain."

===== bizonyítvány  =====

*Hungarian word for "certificate, document."

===== blad(sy)  =====

*Afrikaans word for "page."

===== bladzijde (blz.)  =====

*Dutch word for "page."

===== blanc (blanche)  =====

*French word for "white."

===== blanco (a)  =====

*Spanish word for "white."

===== Blattern  =====

*German word for "smallpox."

===== blaðsíða  =====

*Icelandic word for "page."

===== bli  =====

*Norwegian word for "become."

===== blikkenslager  =====

*Danish and Norwegian word for "tinsmith."

===== blikksmiður  =====

*Icelandic word for "tinsmith."

===== blind  =====

*Danish, Norwegian and Swedish word for "blind."

===== blindur  =====

*Icelandic word for "blind."

===== bliski  =====

*Polish word for "near."

===== bliva  =====

*Swedish word for "to become."

===== bliznieta  =====

*Polish word for "twins."

===== Bureau of Land Management (BLM)  =====

*An agency of the United States government that manages and maintains the government's survey and land records. The bureau also manages national lands and their resources, including mineral resources. The bureau was created in 1946 when the Government Land Office (GLO) and the Grazing Service were combined. It is under the Department of the Interior.

===== blod  =====

*Danish and Norwegian word for "blood."

===== blodgang  =====

*Danish and Norwegian word for "dysentery."

===== blodskam  =====

*Norwegian word for "incest."

===== blodsott  =====

*Norwegian word for "abnormal loss of blood during illness."

===== bloeding  =====

*Afrikaans word for "bleeding, hemorrhage."

===== bloei  =====

*Afrikaans word for "bloei."

===== bloeimaand  =====

*Dutch word for "May (blossoming month)."

===== blogoslawil  =====

*Polish word for "blessed."

===== blogoslawiony  =====

*Polish word for "blessed, the late."

===== blutend  =====

*German word for "bleeding."

===== Blutsverwandschaft  =====

*German word for "blood relationship."

===== bladzijde (blz.)  =====

*Dutch word for "page."

===== blízký  =====

*Czech word for "near."

===== blóðsótt  =====

*Icelandic word for "dysentery."

===== blödning  =====

*Swedish word for "bleeding."

===== Blütenmonat  =====

*German word for "May."

===== bo, Afrikaans  =====

*Afrikaans word for "above, on top of."

===== bo, Danish  =====

*Danish word for "to live at, home."

===== bo, Norwegian  =====

*Norwegian word for "to live at."

===== bo, Polish  =====

*Polish word for "because."

===== bo, Swedish  =====

*Swedish word for "to live, home, estate."

===== boaro  =====

*Italian word for "cattle hand."

===== boca  =====

*Portuguese and Spanish word for "mouth."

===== boda  =====

*Portuguese and Spanish word for "wedding, marriage."

===== bodde  =====

*Norwegian word for "lived."

===== bodnár  =====

*Hungarian word for "cooper, barrel maker."

===== boede  =====

*Danish word for "lived."

===== boek  =====

*Afrikaans and Dutch word for "book."

===== boer  =====

*Afrikaans and Dutch word for "farmer."

===== boerearbeider  =====

*Afrikaans word for "farmhand (laborer)."

===== boerekneg  =====

*Afrikaans word for "farmworker."

===== boerenarbeider  =====

*Dutch word for "cottager, farmhand, worker."

===== boerenknecht  =====

*Dutch word for "farm worker."

===== bog  =====

*Danish word for "book."

===== Bond of curation  =====

*A probate record posted by estate administrators or executors that ensures they will properly carry out their duties.

===== Bondsman  =====

*An individual or institution that signs a bond to guarantee that if the bond holder does not meet the obligations, that individual or institution will. Also called a surety.

===== Bonus application papers  =====

*An article that summarizes a book and evaluates the quality of the book’s information and writing.

===== Bordeaux Emigration Index, France  =====

*Lists beginning in 1895 that document people who have crossed the border between the United States and Canada or Mexico.

===== Borgerskabprotokoller, Denmark  =====

*A Danish word for citizenship book. It lists the people who received the rights to citizenship extended by a city. Citizenship rights included the right to engage in business in the city, protection under the law, and permission to live in the city without being expelled. The book includes the names of the people granted citizenship and their age, social and economic status, occupation and training, and sometimes birthplace and names of relatives. Until the twentieth century, only males of the middle or upper class, usually merchants and tradesmen, were granted citizenship.

===== Born In (the) Covenant  =====

*A self-governing town or city that sends a representative to Parliament.

===== Borough, Scotland  =====

*A city or town in Scotland. In current usage, the term borough refers only to towns with a charter. Also spelled burgh.

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