bookBOOK, 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. In books, in kind remembrance; in favor. 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. |