*belleza* f. beauty

*bello* beautiful, fine

*bendecir* bless

*berenjena* f. plant one of whose varieties is the egg-plant (to eat its fruit was once popularly supposed to cause insanity); *qué ——s* what craziness; what stuff

*Berlín* Berlin

*berroqueña* adj. used with noun *piedra* (rock, stone) to mean granite, as *piedra ——* granite, granite rock; *ser de piedra ——* be hard as stone

*besar* kiss

*biblioteca* f. library

*bibliotecario* m. librarian

*bien* well; quite; *más ——* rather; m. good, benefit; object of love; pl. property; *——es de fortuna* worldly treasures