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BOOK, n. [Like the Latin liber, book signifies primarily bark and beech, the tree being probably named from its bark.] A general name of every literary composition which is printed; but appropriately, a printed composition bound; a volume. The name is given also to any number of written sheets when bound or sewed together, and to a volume of blank paper, intended for any species of writing, as for memorandums, for accounts, or receipts. 1. A particular part of a literary composition; a division of a subject in the same volume.2. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, &c.In books, in kind remembrance; in favor. I was so much in his books, that at his decease he left me his lamp.Without book, by memory; without reading;without notes; as, a sermon was delivered without book. This phrase is used also in the sense of without authority; as,a man asserts without book. BOOK, v.t. To enter, write or register in a book.
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BOOK, n. [Like the Latin liber, book signifies primarily bark and beech, the tree being probably named from its bark.] A general name of every literary composition which is printed; but appropriately, a printed composition bound; a volume. The name is given also to any number of written sheets when bound or sewed together, and to a volume of blank paper, intended for any species of writing, as for memorandums, for accounts, or receipts. 1. A particular part of a literary composition; a division of a subject in the same volume.2. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, &c.In books, in kind remembrance; in favor. I was so much in his books, that at his decease he left me his lamp.Without book, by memory; without reading;without notes; as, a sermon was delivered without book. This phrase is used also in the sense of without authority; as,a man asserts without book. BOOK, v.t. To enter, write or register in a book. | BOOK, n. [Sax. boc, a book and the beech-tree; Goth. boka; Icelandic, book; D. boek, a book, and the mast of beech; beuke, a beech-tree; G. buch, a book, and buche, a beech; Dan. bog; Sw. bok; Russ. buk; Gypsy, buchos. Like the Latin liber, book, signifies primarily bark and beech, the tree being probably named from its bark.]- A general name of every literary composition which is printed; but appropriately, a printed composition bound; a volume. The name is given also to any number of written sheets when bound or sewed together, and to a volume of blank paper, intended for any species of writing, as for memorandums, for accounts, or receipts.
- A particular part of a literary composition; a division of a subject in the same volume.
- A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, &c.
In books, in kind remembrance; in favor.
I was so much in his books, that at his decease he left me his lamps. – Addison.
Without book, by memory; without reading; without notes; as, a sermon was delivered without book. This phrase is used also in the sense of without authority; as, a man asserts without book.
BOOK, v.t.To enter, write, or register in a book. | Book
- A collection of
sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound
together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous
printing or writing.
- To enter, write, or register in a book or
list.
- A composition, written or printed; a
treatise.
- To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the
purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat] as, to be booked
for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.
- A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary
work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost."
- To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as,
he is booked for the valedictory.
- A volume or collection of sheets in which
accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and
expenditures, etc.
- Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of
whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a
set.
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Book BOOK, noun [Like the Latin liber, book signifies primarily bark and beech, the tree being probably named from its bark.] A general name of every literary composition which is printed; but appropriately, a printed composition bound; a volume. The name is given also to any number of written sheets when bound or sewed together, and to a volume of blank paper, intended for any species of writing, as for memorandums, for accounts, or receipts. 1. A particular part of a literary composition; a division of a subject in the same volume. 2. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc. In books, in kind remembrance; in favor. I was so much in his books, that at his decease he left me his lamp. Without book by memory; without reading; without notes; as, a sermon was delivered without book This phrase is used also in the sense of without authority; as, a man asserts without book BOOK, verb transitive To enter, write or register in a book
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