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Webster 1913 Edition
Book
Book
(boŏk)
, Noun.
[OE.
book
, bok
, AS. bōc
; akin to Goth. bōka
a letter, in pl. book, writing, Icel. bōk
, Sw. bok
, Dan. bog
, OS. bōk
, D. boek
, OHG. puoh
, G. buch
; and fr. AS. bōc
, bēce
, beech; because the ancient Saxons and Germans in general wrote runes on pieces of beechen board. Cf. Beech
.] 1.
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.
☞ When blank, it is called a blank book. When printed, the term often distinguishes a bound volume, or a volume of some size, from a pamphlet.
☞ It has been held that, under the copyright law, a book is not necessarily a volume made of many sheets bound together; it may be printed on a single sheet, as music or a diagram of patterns.
Abbott.
2.
A composition, written or printed; a treatise.
A good
book
is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. Milton.
3.
A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work;
as, the tenth
.” book
of “Paradise Lost☞ Book is used adjectively or as a part of many compounds; as, book buyer, bookrack, book club, book lore, book sale, book trade, memorandum book, cashbook.
Book
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Booked
(boŏkt)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Booking
.] 1.
To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
Let it be
booked
with the rest of this day’s deeds. Shakespeare
3.
To mark out for; to destine or assign for;
as, he is
. booked
for the valedictory[Colloq.]
Here I am
booked
for three days more in Paris. Charles Reade.
Webster 1828 Edition
Book
BOOK
,Noun.
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
,Verb.
T.