bookn.

Brit.

/bʊk/, U.S.

/bʊk/

Forms: early Old English baec (dative), early Old English beoc (plural), early Old English boecum (dative plural, perhaps transmission error), Old English boec (plural, chiefly non-West Saxon), Old English (rare)–early Middle English bæc (plural), Old English–early Middle English bec (plural), Old English (rare)–early Middle English becc (plural), Old English (in compounds)–early Middle English bocc, Old English (rare)–Middle English booc, Old English–Middle English (1800s– historical in sense 1d) boc, late Old English bech (plural), late Old English bocan (genitive, perhaps transmission error), late Old English bok- (inflected form), early Middle English bac (transmission error), early Middle English bee (transmission error), early Middle English beec (plural), early Middle English beoken (south-west midlands, plural), early Middle English boche (plural), early Middle English boe (transmission error), early Middle English boec (dative, in copy of Old English charter), Middle English boch, Middle English bocke, Middle English bogke, Middle English bok, Middle English bowk, Middle English bowke, Middle English boykys (singular, perhaps transmission error), Middle English buckys (south-western, plural), Middle English buke (chiefly northern), Middle English–1500s bock, Middle English–1500s boke, Middle English (chiefly northern)–1500s buk, Middle English–1600s booke, Middle English– book, 1500s bowkes (plural), 1500s boykes (plural), 1500s bucke, 1500s–1600s boocke, 1500s–1600s bouke, 1600s boouckes (plural), 1600s–1700s boock, 1900s– beuk (Irish English (northern)); English regional (northern) 1800s– beuk, 1800s– buik, 1900s– beyuck (Newcastle); Scottish pre-1700 bevk, pre-1700 bewk, pre-1700 boke, pre-1700 bouck, pre-1700 bouk, pre-1700 boulk, pre-1700 bowyk, pre-1700 buike, pre-1700 buk, pre-1700 buyk, pre-1700 bvik, pre-1700 bwck, pre-1700 bwik, pre-1700 bwike, pre-1700 bwk, pre-1700 bwke, pre-1700 1700s booke, pre-1700 1700s buick, pre-1700 1700s– book, pre-1700 1700s– buik, pre-1700 1700s– buke, pre-1700 1800s– beuk, 1800s beuck, 1900s– byeuk (north-eastern), 1900s– byook (northern).

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian bōk book, Old Dutch buok large written document, book (Middle Dutch boec book, document, Dutch boek ), Old Saxon bōk book, writing tablet (Middle Low German bōk , būk ), Old High German buoh book, written text, scripture, (in an isolated attestation) letter of the alphabet (Middle High German buoch , German Buch ), Old Icelandic bók book, story, history, Old Swedish bok book (Swedish bok ), Old Danish bok book (Danish bog ), and also (in a different declension: feminine ō -stem) Gothic bōka letter (of the alphabet), in plural bōkōs also in the sense ‘(legal) document, book’ (perhaps also in singular in this sense, as indicated by the compound frabauhtabōka document of sale), probably < the same Germanic base as beech n.Stem variation in Old English and early Middle English. In Old English a feminine athematic consonant stem, with nominative and accusative plural and genitive and dative singular bēc (probably /beːtʃ/), reflecting i-mutation of the stem vowel to ē (earlier and Anglian ōē ) and palatalization and assibilation of the final consonant, both due to following i in the lost inflectional ending. Compare e.g. oak n., borough n., goose n., louse n. This plural type shows limited survival into early Middle English. (The analogical plural in -s is first attested in occasional use in late Old English.) Forms in Germanic languages. The word varies considerably in gender and declensional class in the various Germanic languages. It appears to have been originally (except in Gothic) a Germanic feminine athematic consonant stem, in several languages subsequently assimilated to the strong neuter (a -stem) paradigm, probably on the basis of the unchanged nominative and accusative plural form. (In Gothic it is a feminine ō -stem.) Old Icelandic bók is also applied in poetic texts to bedding woven or embroidered with decorative images, although it is unclear whether this represents the same word. Germanic etymology. A long-standing and still widely accepted etymology assumes that the Germanic base of book n. is related to that of beech n. Explanations of the semantic motivation have varied considerably, with earlier scholars generally focusing on the practice among the Germanic peoples of scratching runes onto strips of wood, but more recent accounts placing more emphasis on the use of wooden writing tablets. Semantic development from ‘material for writing on’ to ‘writing, book’ has a number of parallels, as e.g. classical Latin liber bast, bast with writing on it, book (see library n.¹) and cōdex (earlier caudex ) tree trunk, wooden tablet, book (see codex n.). Objections to this etymology have been made on several grounds. The fact that book n. and beech n. and their cognates appear to reflect different noun classes in West Germanic (feminine athematic consonant stem and feminine ō -stem respectively) has been cited as an argument against an etymological connection between the two (in North Germanic both are feminine athematic consonant stems), especially since the athematic consonant stem type is normally assumed to be more archaic, but in this case appears to be shown by the noun with derived rather than primary meaning. It has also been suggested that the traditional etymology is inconsistent with the use of the word in Gothic, which has been taken as indicating that the earlier sense in all of the Germanic languages was ‘written character, rune’, with ‘written text, book’ showing a subsequent development, probably influenced by ancient Greek γράμμα letter, written mark, also (in plural γράμματα ) letters, literature (see grammar n.), and by classical Latin littera letter of the alphabet, also short piece of writing, (in plural litterae ) document, text, book (see letter n.¹). An alternative etymology has been proposed < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit bhāga- portion, lot, possession, Avestan baga portion, lot, luck, the hypothesis being that a word of this origin came to be used in Germanic for a piece of wood with runes (or a single rune) inscribed on it, used to cast lots (as described e.g. by Tacitus), then for the runic characters themselves, and hence eventually for Greek and Latin letters. See further E. Seebold Etymologie (1981) 290–91, E. Ebbinghaus in General Linguistics 22 (1982) 99–103. However, recent accounts have defended the hypothesis that book n. and beech n. are ultimately related, citing parallel cases where the name of a material and the derived name of an item made from it belong to different morphological classes (e.g. Sanskrit bhūrjá- (masculine) birch tree, (feminine) birch bark used for writing: see birch n.), and arguing that the morphological discrepancies between the forms of the two words in West Germanic languages result from the exploitation of existing morphological variants in order to realize semantic distinctions. See further A. L. Lloyd et al. Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen (1998) II. 446–9, and on the history of the topic also M. Pierce in Historische Sprachforschung 119 (2006) 273–82. Use of plural forms in Old English. In early use the word often occurs in the plural in collective use, especially with reference to the Bible and its subdivisions and to the title deeds pertaining to a property (compare respectively senses 4a, 1d); in Old English forms of the plural sometimes occur with apparent singular reference (including nominative and accusative forms with mutated vowel; compare e.g. the variant reading in quot. OE³ at sense 1d), and very occasionally even with singular agreement. Occasionally, a form with mutated vowel also appears as the first element in an Old English compound, e.g. bēcrǣding (compare book-reading n. and adj. at Compounds 2a); such examples probably show compounds employing the plural form. Specific senses. In biblical use in sense 1c originally after post-classical Latin use of classical Latin liber, itself after Hellenistic Greek use of ancient Greek βίβλος , which in the Septuagint renders both Hebrew kĕṯāḇ ‘writing, written account, book’ (in the Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures only in late books; itself a loan < Aramaic kĕṯāḇ writing, letter, decree, book) and sēper ‘missive, legal document, book, scroll’. With sense 3a compare corresponding post-classical Latin use of liber to denote the Bible, especially as used in oath-taking (from late 12th cent. in British sources). With sense 4a compare corresponding post-classical Latin use of liber to denote a component work of the Bible (frequently from 8th cent. in British sources), itself after corresponding use in Hellenistic Greek of βίβλος to denote a component work of the Bible (e.g. in the New Testament); compare also the use in Hellenistic Greek of βιβλία, plural, to denote the Scriptures (Septuagint, in e.g. τὰ βιβλία τὰ ἅγια sacred books, τὰ βιβλία τοῦ νόμου books of the law).

a. A portable volume consisting of a series of written, printed, or illustrated pages bound together for ease of reading.In modern use the pages are typically printed and made of paper, and are usually trimmed to a uniform rectangular or square shape, sewn or glued together along one side to form a flat or rounded back, and encased in a protective cover, but other materials and construction methods may be used. In early and historical use, and with reference to non-Western cultures, book may refer to a literary work in portable form written on a wide variety of other materials (as vellum, parchment, papyrus, cotton, silk, palm leaves, bark, tablets of wood, ivory, slate, metal, etc.), and put together in any of a number of forms (as a scroll, or as separate leaves which may be hinged, strung, stitched, or glued together).

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society > communication > book > [noun]

bookeOE

volumec1380

biblet1388

volumenc1540

tome?1570

bk.1645

vol.1682

eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) Pref. 9 Ic bebiode..ðæt nan mon ðone æstel from ðære bec ne do, ne ða boc from ðæm mynstre.

OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) iv.17 He þa boc unfeold [L. revolvit librum].

c1225 (?c1200) Sawles Warde (Bodl.) (1938) 10 A gret boc..iwriten wið swarte smeale leattres.

c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 1325 (MED) On ape mai a boc bi halde, An leues wenden & eft folde.

c1300 St. Dominic (Laud) 26 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 278 His bokes he solde and al is guod.

1471 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 193 j bowk covered with rede velwett.

1519 W. Horman Vulgaria viii. f. 84 A volume is lesse than a boke: and a boke lesse than a coucher [L. codice].

1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale sig. C.iiii^v There were so many false printed bokis stil putforth & bought vp so fast.

1559 Dunmow Churchwarden MS 43 b A booke of parchment conteyninge in yt a Venite booke, an ymnall, and a boke for diriges and berialls.

1641 W. S. in More's Hist. Edward V (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. A3 There comming..into my hand a booke long since printed.

1674 A. Marvell Gen. Councils in Wks. (1875) IV. 132 Would you anathemize, banish, imprison, execute us, and burn our books?

1733 I. Watts Philos. Ess. xi. §ii. 263 The proxime Matter of a Book is its Leaves printed with Words, bound up in Covers: but Paper and Printer's Ink are the remote Matter of it.

1778 Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser 24 July The..two Books making a complete Travelling Companion, may be had bound together.

1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 220/2 Most well-bound books have a little appendage at the top of the back-edge, called the ‘head-band’.

1892 H. James Lesson of Master 186 A certain feeling for letters must have rubbed off on him from the mere handling of his master's books, which he was always carrying to and fro.

1904 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 345/2 His glance..travelled from the walls lined with well-bound books to the lamps modulated to the proper light.

1921 H. W. Elson Mod. Times & Living Past. xviii. 248 The Romans wrote..on Egyptian papyrus, or on parchment, and in time the rolled book gave place to the book composed of sheets bound together.

1969 H. Brodkey in Stories in Almost Classical Mode (1989) 133 Fennie had a special system for packing their books in alphabetical order so they could easily be arranged on shelves in Washington.

1996 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 Sept. 45/1 These cloth books and their sacred lore, the ‘disciplina Etrusca’, continued in use throughout the Roman era.

2005 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 17 Sept. 14 There is a bookshelf less than an inch above a fireplace shelf and it's crammed with books on Raphaelite and avant garde art.

b. A written composition long enough to fill one or more such volumes.Usually referring to compositions which are published or intended for publication.In general, a short literary composition (especially if ephemeral in character, and therefore also in form) receives some other name, as story, tract, sketch, essay, etc.In modern use also extended to compositions issued in audio or electronic form; cf. audiobook n. at audio adj. Compounds, electronic book n. 2, e-book n.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun]

i-writeOE

bookOE

writOE

workOE

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composure?1606

page?1606

the written word1619

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OE Guthlac B 878 Us secgað bec hu Guðlac wearð þurh godes willan eadig on Engle.

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) Pref. 174 Ic geseah & gehyrde mycel gedwyld on manegum engliscum bocum.

OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 2 Stæfcræft is seo cæg, ðe ðæra boca andgit unlicð.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3620 For mine bæc [c1300 Otho bokes] hit me suggeð.

c1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Bodl. 902) viii. 3057* In such wise as I ferst tolde, Whan I this bok began to make, In som partie it mai be take As for to lawhe and forto pleye; And forto loke in other weye, It mai be wisdom to the wise.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1470 (MED) Enoch..was þe first þat letters fand And wrot sum bokes wit his hand.

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 348 (MED) Þis buk..In seven partes divised es.

a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. l. 4284 Sum [man] may fal þis buk to rede.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. B.iv^v I wyll intitle this boke the Golden boke.

1558 Act 1 Eliz. ii Set forth in one book entituled, The Booke of Common-prayer.

1637 Decree Starre-Chamber conc. Printing i. sig. B Seditious, scismaticall, or offensive Bookes or Pamphlets.

a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 222 Books have that strange Quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest Matter, they out-last Brass, Iron and Marble.

1730 J. Henley Samuel sleeping in Tabernacle 14 F. Balthus has written a book to vindicate the antient fathers from the imputation of preaching Christ Platonically.

1805 Tucker's Light of Nature Pursued (ed. 2) VII. xxii. 66 Hymns, prayers, meditations, and sweetly-written books.

1852 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 19 592 A good book is a perfect icon, a faithful picture and representation of nature and human life.

1883 Science 23 Mar. 207/2 Rev. Henry C. McCook of Philadelphia is engaged upon an illustrated book on ‘American spiders and their spinning work’.

1941 World Affairs 104 246 A geo-historical picture geography book for children in the middle grades.

1964 P. White Let. 14 Dec. (1994) ix. 275 I tried to write a book about saints, but saints are few and far between.

1990 Metals & Materials 6 446/1 Nuclear metallurgists..have been thinking for a long time that there was a real need for a book covering the metallurgy of all the major reactor systems.

1994 Guardian 24 Mar. ii. 19/2 Instead of being limited to 650 megabytes of data, a single book could, in Ted Nelson's coinage, ‘transclude’ millions and millions of megabytes.

2001 Independent on Sunday 18 Feb. (Reality section) 18/4 Dr. Bratman..has written a book on the subject, Health Food Junkies.

†c. A list (of names, etc.), a register; spec. (esp. in biblical use) an account of a person's lineage or descent. Obsolete.

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society > communication > record > written record > [noun]

bookeOE

writlOE

rolla1325

conscriptiona1382

lettersa1382

scripturea1382

monument1405

write1483

pancart1577

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anagraphy1606

notitia1738

eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 211 Fastorum libri, cyninga bec siue consula bec.

OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) i. 1 Her is on cneorisse boc [L. liber] Hælendes Cristes, Dauides suna.

c1175 ( Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) v. 1 Þis his seo boc [L. liber] Adames mægrace.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. i. 1 The boke [L. liber] of generacioun of Jhesu Crist.

1425 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1425 §12. m. 2 In þe book of þe pee de gree, yeve into þis court by..my said lord erle mareschall.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Matt. i. 1 The boke [Gk. βίβλος] of the generacion of Jesus Christ.

c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1825) 75 The clerkis and wrytters to the Lords of Sessioun war compellit to render the buiks [1804 ed.: buicks] of parliament unto thayme.

1611 Bible (King James) Gen. v. 1 This is the booke of the generations [Heb. sēper tōlĕḏōṯ] of Adam.

1681 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 2nd Pt. 14 He intended to create some new peers; and ordered him to write a book of such as he thought meetest.

d. A legal document, esp. a charter or deed by which land is conveyed. Cf. bookland n. Now historical.In recent historical use the Old and Middle English form boc is often retained.

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society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > charter or deed conveying property > [noun] > charter or deed conveying land

land-boc961

bookOE

bookingOE

charterc1386

OE Bounds (Sawyer 443) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1887) II. 437 Þis is seo boc þe Æþelstan cing gebocode Frithestane bisceope to Wiþiglea.

OE Settlement of Dispute between Bp. Wærferð & Eadnoð (Sawyer 1446) in F. E. Harmer Sel. Eng. Hist. Docs. 9th & 10th Cent. (1914) 26 Ic..him sealde þæt lond on ece erfe & þa bec.

OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) v. 31 Swa hwylc swa his wif forlæt, he sylle hyre hyra hiwgedales boc [OE Rushw. boec; L. libellum].

a1300 ( Pledge of Bp. Eadnoð, Crediton, Devon in Britannica: M. Förster zum Sechzigsten Geburtstage (1929) 120 And þisses iwrites icloua is on cridiamtone mid hure elder boken.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. l. 1 What is this boc of the forsaking of ȝoure moder.

1415 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 401 (MED) Excepte ham that I have ynemmed in this bok to-for.

?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 16 A Boke, cartula, carta, codex [etc.].

1553 King Edward VI Will in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. ii. xxii. 431 All such as have paid their monies upon any bargain for lands, to have their books and bargains performed.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 219 By that time will our booke I thinke be drawne.

1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xxxii. 12 The witnesses, that subscribed the booke [1885 R.V. deed] of the purchase.

1726 Act for Vesting Certain Lands & Hereditaments Estate of C. Colclough 4 Indorsed on the Book of their Purchase-Deeds, and Deeds of Mortgage respectively.

a1738 J. Asgill tr. in Ess. Registry (1758) 22 In the Presence of the Witnesses, who subscribed the Book of the Purchase before all the Jews that sate in the Court of the Prison.

1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. viii. 151 Might be conveyed by boc or written grant.

1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. i. 4 The grants were effected by the king..by means usually of a ‘book’ or charter.

1958 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 9 360 Alfred..supported the legality of restrictions on the granting of land held by book or charter.

2010 C. J. Rogers Oxf. Encycl. Medieval Warfare & Mil. Technol. I. 158/1 Land held by a written charter, or boc.

e. A periodical, a magazine. Now chiefly colloquial or nonstandard. Cf. comic book n.

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society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [noun] > magazine

book1659

magazine1731

mag1742

mimeo mag1967

1659 C. Oxenbridge 2nd Intimation from New Undertakers (single sheet) Which Design we perceive is still carried on, as appears by a busie Pamphleteer in his last weekly book of severall Proceedings.

1709 B. Lindley Def. Cerinthus & Ebion 4 That Criticism's much out of their way, who, by the Title of their Monthly Book, assume to themselves to be the Censurers of the Times.

1756 S. Johnson Let. 30 July (1992) I. 137 There is so little room in the monthly book, that I believe no mention will ever be made in it but of originals.

1800 H. More Let. 11 Sept. (1925) 177 The Anti-Jacobin Magazine, which is spreading more mischief over the land than almost any other book.

1873 Young Englishwoman Aug. 416/2 She has taken in The Young Englishwoman for four years, and thinks it is the best of books for young ladies.

1937 A. Thirkell Summer Half ix. 254 Rose was reduced to reading a book, by which..she meant an illustrated weekly.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 161 A good ‘book’ (i.e. a magazine) is said to be ‘smashin'’.

1985 Los Angeles Times 7 Nov. (Mag. section) 5/4 ‘Road & Track is accepted to be the classic automobile book’, said Greg Brown... Like others in the magazine industry, Brown calls magazines ‘books’.

2. A blank document used as a record.

a. A number of sheets of blank writing paper bound together to form a volume in which notes may be kept; = notebook n. 1. Also figurative: a notional record of actions for which a person may be called to account (cf. book of life n. at Phrases 1e).

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > pad of paper > notebook

bookOE

notebook1565

tablebook1582

manuscript book1593

notary1651

pocketbook1660

tablets1773

jotter1882

pencil tablet1882

ring book1891

carnet1897

telephone pad1900

notepad1922

copy1943

OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Exod. (Claud.) xxxii. 33 Se þe on me gesyngað, ic hine adylgie of minre bec [L. de libro meo].

OE Ælfric Homily: De Doctrina Apostolica (Hatton 115) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1968) II. 631 Ic þæron geseah mid sweartum stafum awritene ealle mine synna..and mine yfelan geþohtas on þære atelican bec.

lOE Canterbury Psalter cxxxviii. 16 In libro tuo omnes scribentur : on bocum þinum [eOE Royal on bec þinre] eælle bioð writone.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms cxxxviii. 16 In thi boc alle shul be writen.

?1574 W. Bourne Regiment for Sea xiv. sig. K.iv^v It is very necessarie to know in what fashion the lande doth rise vpon diuers points of the compasse, as ofte as the fashion of the lande doth alter, and to note it in some booke for remembrance.

1594 Willobie his Auisa xxvi. f. 23^v What hope hath pla'st me in your bookes, That files me fit, for such deceites?

1611 Bible (King James) Psalms cxxxviii [ix]. 16 In thy booke all my members were written..when as yet there was none of them.

1658 R. Brathwait Age of Apes in Honest Ghost 225 In my books He is the only one Who hath a wit, yet seems as he had none.

1678 J. Gailhard Compl. Gentleman ii. 37 You must take pains orderly to set down in writing in your Diary Book, what you heard and learned; and if you are many, or only two, it will be well for every one to have his own Book afterwards to compare notes.

a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 220 Sae dinna put me in your buke.

1812 Brit. Critic Feb. 102 Day by day, for five years,..he continued reading, walking, talking, visiting, and inspecting, and always noting in his book the feelings and opinions to which his pursuits and occupations gave rise.

1893 Punch 15 July 13/2 It would be useful to carry a little book to note down your good things.

1911 Advance 28 Dec. 811/1 Those who were good and true without being famous, whose names are written in God's book.

1943 Boys' Life Aug. 8/1 That's worth knowing. I jotted it down in my book.

1986 J. Jonnes We're still Here ii. 27 Thin, wiry, and determined, Davies trudged the dusty country roads, scribbling notes in a small book.

2011 Daily Tel. 28 Apr. 20/2 He made notes in a little book, as we all did in the olden days before smartphones and laptops.

b. A systematic record of commercial transactions, minutes of meetings, attendance, etc. Also: a volume containing such records; an account book, a ledger, or (in later use) its electronic equivalent. Frequently in plural.account, cash-, day-, minute-book, etc.: see the first element.

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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun]

Domesday Book1178

registera1325

bookc1405

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registery1483

regesture1526

registrya1529

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registrary1696

hall-book1746

blotter1887

society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > records, reports, or documents

bookc1405

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log1861

deed of association1866

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job sheet1919

kanban1977

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Shipman's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 82 Vp into his Countour hous goth he..Hise bokes and his bagges..He leyth biforn hym on his Countyng bord.

1473 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 14 Thingis..deliuerit ay to Andro Balfour as he askit, as his buke of ressat beris.

1497–8 Old City Acct. Bk. in Archæol. Jrnl. (1886) 43 169 To Ric Magson for entryng of the Juells and goods belongyng to the Crafte into this Boke, viijd.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 848 A reckening booke. Codex accepti & expensi.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xi. 88 Keepe..thy pen from lenders booke .

1636 A. Cade Serm. Necess. for these Times 60 He keeps his books evenest..that every night books all his receits and expenses.

1660 T. Willsford Scales of Comm. 209 By Debitor or Debitors in a Merchants books, is understood the account that oweth or stands charged, and..so all things received, or the Receiver is alwayes made Debitor.

1690–1700 Order of Hospitalls sig. Fiv^v You shall kepe..the Booke of Children, Which booke shall contayne th'admission of any childe into this Howse.

1713 Boston News-let. 13 Apr. 2/2 (advt.) Messieurs Frances Clarke and Grove Hirst..resolving not to act any longer as Partners, save to shut up their Accounts now open in their Books.

1753 Scots Mag. Apr. 165/1 To cause their books to be balanced.

1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 189 If you received the note from us..it must be entered in our books.

1881 J. Morley Life R. Cobden I. 117 The books show that the nett profits of the firm had exceeded £23,000 for the year.

1955 F. Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth Space Merchants xv. 156 ‘I want to look at your books.’ He shook his head emphatically. ‘Nossir. Only the old man himself gets to see the books.’

1968 B. Hines Kestrel for Knave 24 Just tell him to put it in t'book and I'll pay him at t'week-end.

2001 N.Y. Times 5 Apr. w1/4 Banks' books will have to reflect the true market value of their stock portfolios for the first time.

†c. A credit note used in colonial trade in West Africa. Obsolete.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > credit documents

precept1473

bill of credit1616

letter of credit1616

security1712

shop note1720

paper credit1725

shop-ticket1777

credit letter1843

circular note1850

book1863

1863 Fraser's Mag. 67 146/1 It was resolved..to renew his ‘book’.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. x. 203 In order to..simplify this goods traffic, a written piece of paper is employed—practically a cheque, which is called a ‘bou’ or ‘book’ and these ‘bous’ are cashed—i.e. gooded, at the store.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. xii. 286 I would give the creditor a book on Hatton and Cookson for the coat.

3. A specific text, elliptically or contextually understood.

a. Frequently with capital initial. The Bible (occasionally spec. the New Testament or Gospels), frequently with reference to its use in the administration of oaths. Also: a sacred text of another religion, esp. the Torah or Qur'an. Cf. good book n. at good adj., n., adv., and int. Compounds 1c, People of the Book n. at people n. Phrases 1b.In early use not always clearly distinguishable from sense 4a.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > [noun]

Holy Writc900

writeOE

God's bookOE

writOE

bookOE

Biblea1300

holy lettrurec1330

scripturec1330

the (sacred or holy) writings1340

gospel1393

worda1425

escripture1489

Holy Write1508

theologya1513

the written word1533

Book of God1548

oracle1548

hand biblea1680

good book1740

sacred book1782

the sacred volume1850

bibliotheca1879

Kitab1885

society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > [noun] > book

bookOE

OE Ælfric Homily (Cambr. Ii.4.6) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 483 Þa wæs Godes sylfes Gast, swa swa seo boc us secgð, gefered ofer wæterum.

OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1066 He sealde him on hand mid Christes bec & eac swor..þæt he wolde þisne þeodscype swa wel haldan swa ænig kyngc ætforan him betst dyde.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11924 To don hemm tunnderrstanndenn wrang Þe bokess hallȝhe lare..þatt wass seȝȝd off cristess þeoww Þurrh dauiþ þe profete [etc.].

c1250 in Stud. Philol. (1931) 28 598 Ase in þe boc þa apostel speket.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 9684 Hii ssolde suerie vpe þe bok ywis Þat hii ne ssolde purchasy non uvel þe king ne non of his.

1389 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 45 Eche of hem had sworen on þe bok to perfourme þe pointz.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 2042 A mantil..he toke, And ȝede bacward, als sais þe bock.

c1475 in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 138 On a boke I dare well swere, In gode feythe and on womanhode.

1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke (STC 24656) iv. viii. f. 96 Now a daies al that sweare laie their hande on the booke and kisse it saiyng, so helpe me God and the holy Gospell.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iv. 141 Ile be sworne on a booke shee loues you.

1678 Tryals W. Ireland, T. Pickering, & J. Grove for Murder 3 Clerk of Crown..‘Sir Philip Matthews to the Book’.

1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1754) No. 3. 12 He takes the oaths of allegiance and supremacy:..some have thought themselves sufficiently absolved from them by kissing their thumbs, instead of the book.

1830 Q. Rev. Oct. 560 Mahommedanism has been received..with more confidence, because it is the religion of the Book,—a written, and, as they believe, an attested religion, of the truth of which the koran is the record and the proof.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 46 ‘Swear’ added Enoch sternly ‘on the book.’ And on the book, half-frighted, Miriam swore.

1908 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 357 Robert unfolded the document..and read out its contents slowly: ‘I swear on the Book as I, James Fry, was beat fair by Robert Inkpen at Oakleigh Ploughin' Match, an' that I done my best.’

1938 J. C. Archer Faiths Men live By xiii. 312 Every twenty-four hours the Book is read through by a relay of granthis or ‘readers of the Granth’.

1976 Y. Menuhin in D. Villiers Next Year in Jerusalem 334 A love of improvisation..has never been lost to the people of the Book.

1994 A. Gurnah Paradise (1995) 95 Hamid..muttered Astaghfirullah, God forgive me, and shivered with the thought that he may have sounded disrespectful about the Book.

2011 C. E. Taber Earth's Final Dawn iv. 97 Historicists agree that the content of the Book is played out in history from the time of the first advent of Christ until His second advent.

b. A liturgical text or prayer book, esp. the Book of Common Prayer.In the phrase by bell, book, and candle (see bell n.¹ 8) the ‘book’ used in performing an excommunication may in some examples be the Bible (cf. sense 3a) or another holy book.

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society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > service book (general) > [noun] > for mass

bookOE

mass bookOE

missalc1330

missal book1509

society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > service book (general) > [noun] > containing directions for worship > Anglican

prayer book?1529

Book of Common Prayer1549

service book1553

book1588

Common Prayer Book1595

liturgy1629

servicea1684

common prayer1688

OE Laws of Æðelred II (Claud.) vi. li. 258 To wæde & to wiste þam þe Gode þeowian & to bocan & to bellan & to cyricwædan.

OE Rubrics & Direct. for Use of Forms of Service (Laud) in M. Förster & K. Wildhagen Texte u. Forschungen zur englischen Kulturgeschichte (1921) 47 Hæbbe seðe þas þenunga gefyllan sceal, þisse endebyrdnesse boc him on þa wynstran handa.

a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 215 Prest..mineȝeð þat me niwe cloðes oðer elde bete boc oðer belle, calch oðer messe-ref.

c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 1945 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 162 Bok and candele he nam a-non and a-mansede riȝt þere Alle þat werreden holi churche.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 559 The gold..The which was leid upon the bok, Whan that alle othre sche forsok For love of him.

c1450 (c1420) Prophecies Becket (Hatton) 22 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1899) 102 354 This kene clerk of Caunterbery..byddes graithe hym an auter and dresses hym to synge..his boke þan hym laked.

c1480 (a1400) St. Christopher l. 114 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 343 [He] in gret thank his seruice tuke, But ony aythe one bel ore buke.

1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 27 [In 1502] Sir Edmonde de la Poole was pronuncyd acursed opynly wyth boke, belle, and candell, at Powlles crose at the sermonde before none.

1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 45 Whosoeuer will or haue subscribed vnto the booke and Articles.

1640 F. Knight Relation Seaven Yeares Slaverie 48 The grand signiour Pope-like, by booke and candle excommunicated them both, if they disobeyed his pleasure therein.

1715 T. Burnet & G. Duckett Homerides 10 The old Man grew afeard..And there his Beads began to handle, And curst them all by Book and Candle.

1842 Methodist Rev. Apr. 295 Our Oxford divines are hoping (and praying too, if they can find any such prayer in the book) that this union may soon be consummated.

1893 R. W. Buchanan Piper of Hamelin i. 17 We call'd the clergy with book and candle, To curse the vermin and end the scandal.

1938 R. S. Newdick Let. 23 Apr. in Newdick's Season of Frost iii. xxi. 331 The regular funeral service—from the book—was held, but with no sermon, just a prayer.

2012 New Scientist (Nexis) 10 Mar. Rather than bell, book and candle, the ‘exorcists’ use a laser that can set the position of a small glass bead.

c. Law. In plural. Books containing authoritative reports of cases serving as legal precedents, esp. the Year Books (see yearbook n. 1). Cf. on the books at Phrases 2g(b).Recorded earliest in book case n.¹

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society > law > administration of justice > court papers > [noun] > law report > books of reports

book?1518

books of years and termsc1523

yearbook1579

paper-book?1608

bench book1860

?1518 Natura Breuium (new ed.) (title page) With dyuers addicions of statutis: boke casis: plees in abatementes of the sayd writtes and theyr declaracions.

c1523 J. Rastell Expos. Terminorum Legum Anglorum (title page) With diuers rulys & principalles of the law, as well out of the bokis of mayster littelton as of other bokis of the law.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 870/1 The books of the law..(where his arreignement is liberallie set downe).

1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 1 b So we commonly say it is holden in our bookes.

1666 in W. G. Scott-Moncrieff Rec. Proc. Justiciary Court Edinb. (1905) I. 138 They..to have found caution acted in the Books of Adjournall.

1706 D. Carnegie in W. Fraser Hist. Carnegies (1867) II. 261 I am content and consents thir presentts be insert and registrat in the Books of Councell and Sessione.

1763 J. Mills & T. Blackwell Mem. Court Augustus III. xi. 29 Among such Men, if there were any sparks of Knowledge, they lay lurking in the Books of the Pontificial Law, wrapped up in Superstition.

1826 J. Kent Comm. Amer. Law I. xxi. 444 It will be a bad example to the barristers and students at law, and they will not give any credit to the books, or have any faith in them.

1886 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 32 29 There are other cases in the books illustrating the same principle.

1930 R. Pound Criminal Justice Amer. iv. 120 What is law in the books is largely determined by history. What is law in action is chiefly determined by public opinion.

1994 Federal Reporter 3rd Ser. 20 717 Because any condition imposed by New York law can be found in the books, a choice of law provision suffices to incorporate the Garrity rule.

d. A telephone directory; = phone book n. at phone n.² Compounds 2, telephone book n. at telephone n. Compounds 3.

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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > telephone directory

telephone directory1879

telephone book1883

book1885

directory1908

phone book1921

1885 Cassell's Family Mag. Dec. 719/1 In a minute Charlie was in my boudoir, and was ringing to the Central Exchange. I looked in the book; the fire number was something—I forget what.

1903 Telephony Apr. 212 A rich broker who had a telephone put in his house and his number in the book had to hire a boy at $7 a week to answer calls, of which there were over 150 a day.

1925 A. Christie Secret of Chimneys iv. 30 You might ring up a number for me now. Look it up in the book.

1960 K. Amis Take Girl like You vi. 87 Let's just hypothesise that I give you a ring, shall we? You're in the book, eh?

1993 I. Rankin Castle Dangerous in Beggars Banquet (2002) 191 Meantime,..I'll be at the Castellian Hotel. The number will be in the book. You can always have me paged.

4. A main subdivision of a larger written work.Typically a portion of a text which originally either constituted a separate document, or which occupied one of a number of separate rolls or volumes.

a. Any of the component works forming the Bible. Frequently as part of a full title, as the Book of Daniel, the Book of Judges, etc.In early use also in plural denoting the Bible as a whole; cf. sense 3a.

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society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > main subdivision of large work

bookOE

tome1519

volume1523

code1607

OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John Pref. In pathmos insula apocalipsen scribserat : in pathma ealond þæt boc ðæra sighðana eac awrat.

OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 262 We rædað on bocum, ægðer ge on ðære ealdan æ, ge on þære niwan, þæt þa menn..mid axum hi sylfe bestreowodon.

OE List of Relics, Exeter in M. Förster Zur Geschichte des Reliquienkultus in Altengland (1943) 76 Of sancto Hieronime þam æþelan lareowe, seþe..þa mycelan bibliothecan [sc. the Bible], on ðære beoð twa & hundseofentig boca, of ebreisce & of greccisce to ledene æðelice awende.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 5810 Þatt writenn..Goddspell o fowwre bokess.

c1225 (?OE) Homily: Sicut Oves absque Pastore (Worcester F.174) in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 1 He..þe [fif] bec wende: Genesis, Exodus, Vtronomius, Numerus, Leuiticus.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2522 Ðe boc ðe is hoten genesis.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xv. cxxvii. 801 Þe firste book of Machabeorum.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. iii. 330 Se what Salamon seith in Sapience bokes.

a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 17161 Nat in the Book off Danyel..Nor in Thapocalyps off Iohan.

?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye ii. sig. f4 Let it [sc. the Church] read these two bokes (..sapience and ecclesiasticus) vnto the edefyinge of the people.

1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible i. xxiii. 62 The Booke of Deuteronomie, (or second rehersall of the Law) maketh a Repeat of the things fallen out since the Peoples comming out of Ægypt.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V i. ii. 98 In the booke of Numbers is it writ.

1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) vi. 82 The full Testimony that they give to the Books of the Old Testament, does sufficiently prove their Authority and Genuineness.

1724 A. Collins Disc. Grounds Christian Relig. 20 Divines; who seem to pay little deference to the Books of the New Testament.

1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity I. Pref. 23 I have almost always quoted the Book, & Chapter.

1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. Introd. p. xxxii The Books of Moses, Joshua, and Samuel.

1930 W. R. Inge Christian Mysticism i. 19 Apocalyptism has left traces in almost all the books of the New Testament.

1997 J. Bowker World Relig. 116/1 Torah is contained in the first five books of the Bible, which, as well as history, contain the 613 commandments fundamental to Jewish life.

2010 Vanity Fair Apr. 108/2 The whole book of Exodus is a commandment-rich environment.

b. A major division of the text in a lengthy prose composition or poem, esp. (in earlier use) one occupying an entire volume.Now usually in prose only when further subdivided into chapters, or portions otherwise distinguished, but formerly used more freely, where chapter would now be used, or following ancient Greek βιβλίον little book, classical Latin liber, as in the nine books of Herodotus, the twelve books of Virgil's Aeneid.

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eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) ii. viii. 53 Ne wene ic..nu ic longe spell hæbbe to secgenne, þæt ic hie on þisse bec [L. libro] geendian mæge; ac ic oþere anginnan sceal.

lOE King Ælfred tr. St. Augustine Soliloquies (Vitell.) (1922) Pref. 2 Agustinus, Cartaina bisceop, worhte twa bec be his agnum Ingeþance; þa bec sint gehatene Soliloquiorum.

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 11 Þis an Boc is todealet in eahte leasse Bokes [?c1225 Cleo. achte destincciuns].

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 351 Loke pleynliche of þe province of Deyra in þe first book, capitulo 51^o [sc. of William of Malmesbury's Gesta regum].

a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l. 1818 My þridde book now ende Ich in þis wys.

c1484 J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 119 The fyrst capytil of þe fourth boke remembryth of herbys, stonys, and treis.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection Pref. sig. Ai This treatyse..is distincte and diuyded into thre bokes, in the honour of the trinite.

1555 R. Eden Of Pole Antartike in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 245 To wryte particularly..of these regions, it wolde requyre rather a hole volume then a booke.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie Pref. 34 The last booke of this treatise.

1635 J. Babington Short Treat. Geom. 36 By the thirteenth of the sixth booke of Euclide.

1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. a3^v Horace, in his First Epistle of the Second Book.

1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 29. 186 The Poem consists of Three Books.

?1797 W. Blake Four Zoas ix. 20 The Books of Urizen unroll with dreadful noise!

1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I cc. 103 My poem..is meant to be Divided in twelve books.

1866 Reader 2 June 545 We find the twenty books (or chapters as we should now call them) relate to the following subjects.

1921 Sewannee Rev. 29 226 It consists of a single narrative poem in six books, each long enough to contain some hundred or so of stanzas in ottava rima.

1990 A. S. Byatt Possession ii. 9 Ragnarök , a poem in twelve books, which..some trounced as atheistic and diabolically despairing.

2009 M. Hamand Creative Writing for Dummies ii. ix. 128 The Quincunx concerns five generations of five branches of a family; each branch is covered by a part, divided into five books, containing five chapters.

5. Book learning, scholarship; study, lessons, reading. Frequently preceded by a preposition, as at, †on, to. In later use only in plural, frequently with possessive pronoun, and passing into senses 1a, 1b.In Old English chiefly in plural; in Middle English and early modern English chiefly in singular.

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society > education > learning > study > [noun] > study of books

readingeOE

bookeOE

bookworkOE

bookery1597

eOE Metrical Dialogue of Solomon & Saturn (Corpus Cambr. 422) i. 61 Nænig manna wat, hæleða under hefenum, hu min hige dreoseð, bysig æfter bocum.

OE Wulfstan Canons of Edgar (Corpus Cambr.) (1972) lxv. 14 We lærað þæt preost ne beo hunta.., ac plegge on his bocum swa his hade gebirað.

OE tr. Theodulf of Orleans Capitula (Corpus Cambr.) xxviii. 347 We beodað þæm mæssepreostum.., þa þe on bec gelærede syn þæt hig gelomlice & geornlice heora hyrigmen of þæm bocum læren.

c1300 Childhood Jesus (Laud) 1433 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1875) 1st Ser. 48 He sumȝwat on boke leornede At a maister of þat contreie.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 8690 Vor þat he ȝongost was, to boc is fader him drou, Þat he was..god clerc ynou.

c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. xi. 129 Plato þe Poyete I put him furste to Boke.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xii. l. 187 (MED) Wel may þe barne blisse þat hym to boke sette.

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xxxv. 568 Ypocras..was A wys man On boke.

a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) cv. 81 In fowle weder at my booke to sitt.

1560 J. Heywood in tr. Seneca Thyestes Pref. sig. ★iv^v As at booke with mased Muse I satte and pensiue thought Deepe drownde in dumps of drousines.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. i. 14 My sonne profits nothing in the world at his Booke .

1639 J. Fletcher et al. Bloody Brother iv. ii. sig. G*2 Still at their books, they will not be pull'd off, They stick like cupping glasses.

1680 P. Henry Diaries & Lett. (1882) 282 Children at Book again, under Mr. Sam. Lewis.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 383. ¶1 Bidding him be a good Child and mind his Book.

1728 J. Swift Intelligencer (1729) vii. 61 He kept a miserable house, but the Blame was laid wholly upon Madam; for the good Doctor was always at his Books.

1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women II. viii. 53 An early love of books prevented this languor.

1801 M. Edgeworth Good French Governess in Moral Tales V. 7 He was so ‘thick-headed at his book’, that Mrs. Grace..affirmed, that he never would learn to read.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 75 His rushings to and fro, After his books, to flush his blood with air.

1900 M. H. Allies tr. I. Hahn-Hahn Heiress of Cronenstein vi. 60 Early morning and late evening found me at my books, and every day at Mass I prayed for a blessing on my work and my vocation.

2011 C. McWilliam What to look for in Winter i. ii. iv. 172 But for him, who took me out of Cambridge for the last weeks before Finals and set me to my books as you might set an animal to exercise, I should have had no kind of a degree.

6. figurative and in figurative contexts, frequently in the book of ——.

a. Something considered as worthy of study, a source of instruction, or an example from which to learn.

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society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun]

lorea1225

book1340

librarya1450

study1535

volume1597

subject1805

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 44 (MED) Betere may ech man rede þe ilke zenne..ine þe boc of his inwyt þanne ine ane ssepes scinne.

?1387 T. Wimbledon Serm. (Corpus Cambr.) (1967) 123 (MED) In þe bok of conscience..ȝif þou fyndest out contrarie to Cristis lif oþer to his techynge, wiþ þe knyf of penaunce and repentaunce scrape it awey and write it beterer.

?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 92 (MED) Þei techen to þe comunes bi here owen wickid lif, þat is a bok to here sugetis.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 25 It is more verrili writen in the book of mannis soule than in the outward book of parchemyn.

a1500 (?c1378) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 408 (MED) Þe lif of þis herde is a bok to lewyd men, & a marke þat þei shulden sue aftir.

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 408/2 To call the ymages of holye sayntes..and the figure of Chrystes crosse, the boke of his bitter passion.

1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job (new ed.) cxix. 612 The order of the world is as it were a booke to teach vs, and ought to lead vs vnto God.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. H4^v Laying before vs two Bookes or volumes to studie, if we will be secured from errour: first the scriptures, reuealing the will of God; and then the creatures expressing his power.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. i. 16 And this our life..Findes tongues in trees, bookes in the running brookes, Sermons in stones.

1693 tr. Bp. Serenus in W. Wotton tr. L. E. Du Pin New Hist. Eccl. Writers V. 88 The unlearned see in it [sc. an image] what they ought to follow, it is a Book to them who know not a Letter.

1745 J. Trapp Thoughts upon Four Last Things (ed. 2) ii. 51 Thy Book of Nature too both Day and Night I read, and study'd with sincere Delight: Thy Wonders of Creation!

1780 Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser 21 Sept. I have read the book of life for a long time, and I have read other books a little.

1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (rev. ed.) 2 That great poet to whom the book of Nature and of the human heart seemed alike laid open.

1876 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life x. 371 The infinite book of the world, and life.

1917 National Munic. Rev. Jan. 26 This important truth we learned from the book of bitter experience.

1999 K. L. Edwards Milton & Nat. World ii. vi. 127 Raphael's narrative helps us see that reading God's beneficence in the book of the world is a pleasure and a responsibility that never comes to an end.

2004 R. Gascoigne Freedom & Purpose i. i. 34 Natural law..is not a set of obligations that can be read by everyone in the open book of an unchanging human nature.

b. A repository or embodiment, esp. of an abstract concept or quality; (also) the story or narrative relating to a specified concept or event.

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society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > imaginary or reputed book

book of lifeOE

book1561

tome1610

1561 J. Hopkins in T. Sternhold et al. Psalmes lxix. 133 And dashe them cleane out of y^e booke, of life, of hope.

1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iii. 89 This precious booke of loue, this vnbound louer.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) i. i. 97 Blotting your names from Bookes of memory.

1686 N. Tate tr. G. Fracastoro Syphilis 16 To search the Book of destiny and show What change shall rise in Heav'n or Earth below.

1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 73 Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

1781 H. Downman Death of Caesar iii. i. 358 My bosom Shall now be all unfolded to your view. It is a book of horror to be read, And crouded thick with blackest characters.

?1834 C. Brontë Leaf from Unpublished Vol. (1986) Introd. 1 Man may, indeed, hand down to posterity the history of the past; but what mortal pen can, unassisted, trace events whose birth, course & issue are perhaps but newly inscribed in the book of Fate?

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 101 Not ever would she love; but brooding turn The book of scorn.

1922 A. Mana Ld. Kitchener Lives I. 244 I sometimes forget who I was, I am so busy here, and the past life is slowly being placed in the book of memory which is only opened when necessary.

1998 M. Krysl How to accommodate Men i. 68 In bed A is spunky and gymnastic. He wants to try every imaginable position... He becomes a veritable Book of Knowledge.

2002 D. Lundy Way of Ship (2003) vi. 223 The ouster of sail was a technological revolution, the sea-going chapter in the book of the Industrial Revolution.

7. Any of various items resembling a book, esp. in being composed of leaves or plates joined or hinged at one edge.

a. A packet containing 25 pieces of gold leaf separated by sheets of soft paper.

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1474 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 61 ij bukis of gold for iiij cotis of armez for the heraldis.

1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 367 Giffin to Patric Redhewch for the Kingis buke of gold that lay in wed to him.

?1617 T. Campion 3rd & 4th Bk. Ayres iv. To Rdr. sig. C The Apothecaries haue Bookes of Gold, whose leaues being opened are so light as that they are subiect to be shaken with the least breath.

1665 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1905) III. 63 For the new cock put upon the heigh steiple.., and for gold buikis and guilding therof.

1734 Builder's Dict. I. at Gilding By this you may know how many Books of Gold will serve to gild a Work.

1797 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Apr. 133 Two ounces and two pennyweights of gold is delivered by the master to the workman, who, if extraordinarily skilful, returns two thousand leaves, or eighty books, of gold... Hence one book weighs 4.8 grains.

1884 Manufacturer & Builder Mar. 68/1 Procure some books of gold leaf; each book will contain twenty-five leaves of gold, about 3½ inches square.

1980 Old-house Jrnl. Oct. 153/2 (advt.) Gold leaf books (25 leaves) & packs (20 books).

2005 K. Admas Compl. Bk. Glass Beadmaking 24/1 Silver, gold, palladium, and copper leaf are sold in books. Foils, which are thicker and more expensive, are sold in individual sheets.

b. A packet of some other commodity bound together for ease of handling or dispensing. Cf. matchbook n. at match n.² Compounds 2.

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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > bundle > flat

book1613

1613 T. Best Jrnl. 28 Jan. in Voy. to E. Indies (1934) 65 I presented him with a peece and a booke of callico.

1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Bale (Fr.), A Pack, or certain quantity of Merchandise; as a Bale of Spicery, of Books or Thred.

1708 Brit. Apollo 13 Feb. Any Persons, upon directing their Letters to the Printer superscrib'd, for the British Apollo, may have this Paper brought to their Houses..Likewise the Books of Guards neatly bound to keep 'em in, at two Shillings a piece.

1751 H. Sloane Will (1753) 3 I have made great additions of late years..to my collections of natural and artificial curiosities, precious stones, books of dryed samples of plants, miniatures, [etc.].

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxix. 329 A large ‘book’ was made of some twenty-five to fifty hides, doubled at the backs, and put into one another, like the leaves of a book.

1859 C. Tomlinson Illustr. Useful Arts 21 (caption) Book of Silk from China.

1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 328 The book of plate-holders.

1907 Q. National Fire Protection Assoc. Oct. 32 The cut [tobacco] leaves..drop off into piles, and when enough have accumulated, say 50 or so, the operative smooths the leaves out and folds the pile into what is termed a pad or book.

1920 K. Harris Meet Mr. Stegg i. 50 He thumbed a cigarette paper from a book that he drew from his pocket.

1942 Business Week 9 May 15/1 Essential articles..will be listed and given a price in points. Then every person in the country will be given a book of stamps representing a certain number of points.

1981 H. Morton Whale's Wake 55 Usually they left the slices [of blubber] together at one edge to facilitate handling; the chunk sliced in this fashion was called a ‘book’ for obvious reasons.

2006 J. Thomas Ideal Wife ii. 26 When Lawrence returned, Jana was in the master bed-room with a book of wallpaper samples.

c. Angling. A pocketbook or book-shaped case used to store fishing tackle; = fly-book n. at fly n.¹ Compounds 2a.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > [noun] > container for fishing-tackle

book1760

fly-book1848

1760 J. Hawkins in Walton's & Cotton's Compl. Angler i. v. 117 (note) Three double leaves more..may be allotted for silk of various colours, gold and silver-twist, and other odd things; six single leaves more will complete your book.

1824 Sporting Mag. 15 147/1 The fisherman, who has got a book full of good ready-made flies.

1847 T. T. Stoddart Angler's Compan. 61 Angler's trouting book.

1906 B. Harraden Scholar's Daughter ii. 29 Mr. Gulliver answered, still fumbling or pretending to fumble over his fishing-book.

1923 Boys' Life Sept. 42/4 I want to show you something I got this morning. The finest split-bamboo fly-rod you ever laid your eyes on.., and a book of flies.

2000 J. Mosher Last Buffalo Hunter xix. 262 He began looking through his book of flies. The leather book, lined with something that resembled loose wool, held hundreds of tiny dry flies.., and dozens of smaller wet flies.

d. In full book isinglass. Isinglass obtained by drying the folded swim bladder of a fish.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [noun] > from animals

gold skin1507

mouth gluec1540

water glue1542

isinglass1545

gold-beater's skin1710

sea-glass1753

book1765

bone1812

mist1852

staple isinglass1879

mist1896

mis1958

1765 H. Jackson Ess. Brit. Isinglass 26 Every Species of that, commonly called Book Isinglass, from being folded into a Shape, resembling that of a Book.

1829 D. Booth Art of Brewing 23/2 The Book-isinglass..is often found to be spoilt in its folds, from imperfect drying.

1925 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 236/1 Folded isinglass from Russia is called ‘book’.

2000 G. J. Flick & R. E. Martin in R. E. Martin et al. Marine & Freshwater Products Handbk. 609/2 Isinglass is produced either as leaf- or book-isinglass.

e. A book-shaped folding case for holding banknotes, papers, etc.; = pocketbook n. 2a. Now rare.

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1792 Cal. of Prisoners York Castle & Ousebridge Gaol 19 Mar. (single sheet) David Rogers, for picking J. Pollard's pocket of a black leather book, containing seven guineas in gold.

1801 Sporting Mag. 18 64/2 One gentleman had his pocket picked of a book, containing Bank Bills to the amount of fifty-two pounds.

1817 W. Bates Mysterious Stranger 29 The man examined his pocket book, and was seen to burn several papers, and at last, threw the book into the fire and burned it up.

1866 Anecd. Bk.: Moral & Relig. 70 He opened the book, counted the notes, and examined the papers. ‘They are all right,’ said he; ‘fifteen notes of a thousand dollars each.’

1933 Iola (Kansas) Daily Reg. 5 Dec. 3 a/1 ‘Did you lose this?’ Roger held out the billfold. Harkess took the book and looked into it. ‘Why, yes, I did,’ he said.

1955 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. No. 24. 114 Old-timers may still refer to a billfold as a book, clipped back from pocketbook.

f. Zoology. In arachnids: the stack of fine parallel lamellae comprising the book gill or book lung (see Compounds 3).gill, lung book: see the first element.

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1881 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 21 540 The pectines and the pulmonary books of the former [sc. Scorpio] and the branchial books of the latter [sc. Limulus].

1937 S. H. Williams Living World ix. 195 The six pairs of plates which comprise the operculum and gills are arranged so as to form a respiratory book.

2003 C. N. Shuster in C. N. Shuster et al. Amer. Horseshoe Crab xi. 284 Rhythmic movements of the appendages..circulate water over the surfaces of the book lamellae.

g. Mineralogy. A closely-packed stack of laminar crystals of a mineral, esp. mica.

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1893 Wyoming Agric. Exper. Station Bull. No. 14. 190 On the east side..there are many ledges of feldspathic granite.., through which are scattered crystals or books of mica.

1939 G. A. Roush Strategic Mineral Supplies xii. 345 The books are first split into slabs about ¼ inch thick (rifting).

1974 Nature 16 Aug. 562/2 The Clare Castle gneisses... Books of graphite up to 2mm long occur in most specimens.

1995 New Mexico Apr. 23/1 The schist-rich hillsides yield garnets and mica books as well as the legendary fairy crosses.

h. In full book of matches. = matchbook n. at match n.² Compounds 2.

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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > container or holder for tinder or matches

tinder-box1530

firebox1555

tinder1570

linstock1575

funk horn1673

spunk-box1721

phosphorus box1792

light box1816

spunk-flask1835

match-bottle1839

matchbox1853

match-pot1856

match-safe1860

punk-box1862

match-stand1873

match holder1884

book1899

safety box1902

matchbook1937

1899 Sunday Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 20 Aug. i. 5/2 The kind of safety matches which are made of paper and sent out in the form of a book..are competing strongly with wax matches in England. In one order 30,000,000 books were sold to Liverpool.

1899 Sunday Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 20 Aug. i. 5/2 The Pabst company..have made a special offer since March 22 to mail 100 books of matches to anyone enclosing two 12-cent stamps.

1937 Pop. Mech. Dec. 38 a/1 To help guard against the other matches in the book catching fire when one is struck, a newly patented match package has an inner flap which covers the heads of the matches.

1962 J. Braine Life at Top v. 88 One of the books of matches I'd taken away from the Savoy.

2008 New Yorker 28 July 41/3 In a popular puzzle known as ‘the candle problem’..subjects are given a cardboard box containing a few thumbtacks, a book of matches, and a candle.

†8. = benefit of clergy at clergy n. 6a. Obsolete.With reference to the former requirement that a person claiming benefit of clergy had to demonstrate literacy by reading from a book.

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society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > legal privilege or immunity > applying to clergy

clergyc1275

immunity1449

benefit of clergy1488

benefice of clergy1489

benefit of (his) clergy1511

book1537

privilege of clergy1588

1537 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. III. 83 Theruppon every off them prayed ther book, and..the Justices of the Pease that wear at the said Sessions repried the said felons.

1560 H. Machyn Diary (1848) 227 A-nodur..for cuttyng of a purse of iij s. but he was [burnt] in the hand afore, or elles ys boke would have [saved] hym.

1601 R. Yarington Two Lamentable Trag. sig. I2^v Williams and Rachell likewise are convict For their concealement, Williams craues his booke, And so receaves a brond of infamie.

1629 Vse of Law 22 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light Some prisoners haue their bookes and burned in the hand and so delivered... This hauing their bookes is called their Clergie.

1643 C. Herle Answer to Fernes Reply 5 Flat blasphemy without booke.

1710 London Gaz. No. 4739/1 An Act for taking away the Benefit of Clergy in certain Cases, and for taking away the Book in all Cases.

9. Cards.

†a. A playing card, esp. when used for gambling. Also (in singular and plural): a pack of cards. Cf. devil's books at devil n. Compounds 3a(c). Obsolete (slang in later use).In quot. c1575 with allusion to book of life n. at Phrases 1e.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun]

card1463

playing card1480

carte1497

bookc1575

charta1680

broad1789

flat1819

pasteboard1840

paper1842

painted mischief1879

boards1923

c1575 R. Rice Inuectiue againste Vices sig. B.iv Is the waie by plaiyng, and sportyng, or resting of thy wearie bones, with the bones of a paire of Dice, or with a paire of Cardes (otherwise nowe called the bookes of life)?

1608 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light sig. F1 At his strange entrance they being somewhat agast, began to shuffle-away their bookes, but he knowing what cardes they plaid withall, offred to cut, and turnd vp two knaues by this Trick.

1706 S. Centlivre Basset-table iv. 50 Lady Revel. Clean Cards here. Mrs. Sago. Burn this Book, 'thas an unluckly Air... Bring some more Books.

1811 Lexicon Balatronicum at Green How green the cull was not to stag how the old file planted the books. How ignorant the booby was not to perceive how the old sharper placed the cards in such a manner as to insure the game.

1853 W. G. Simms Sword & Distaff xxxvi. 270 ‘Hev' you any books?’ Books meant cards in the vernacular of the forest.

1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. Books, (card players), a pack of cards.

b. Whist and Bridge. The first six tricks taken by either partnership in a hand.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > actions or tactics > tricks or taking tricks

slam1814

little slam1839

book1857

overtrick1885

small slam1887

undertrick1908

heart1909

playing trick1959

1857 T. Frere Hoyle's Games (new ed.) 143 When either two or four play, six tricks make a book. When three play, four tricks make a book.

1910 Mansfield (Ohio) News 4 Mar. 4/3 Every trick over the book is worth ten points instead of two.

2008 D. Galt Teach Yourself Visually Bridge ii. 18 In auction, the first six tricks needed are ‘understood’..and may be referred to as a book.

c. North American. In certain games: a set of cards of the same rank or type.With quot. 1893 cf. author n. 3.

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1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I Book,..in ‘authors’ and similar games, all the cards of one set.

1898 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 27 Nov. 29/3 When a player has received a complete book or four Bible characters, he must announce that fact and place the book in the center of the table.

1915 Colman's Rural World 5 Oct. 13/2 When the cards are all dealt [in an invented game] each player tries to make a book of four cards.

2005 B. Rigal Card Games for Dummies (ed. 2) iv. 64 Sets: Three or four cards of the same rank (also known as a group or book in North America).

10.

a. The script of a play; (also) that part of the script of a musical which contains the spoken dialogue, stage directions, etc., as distinct from the sung lyrics and musical score. Also: spec. = prompt book n. Cf. earlier playbook n. 1.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > written or printed text > [noun] > script

book1592

script1890

1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte sig. C3 He stood like a..plaier that being out of his part at his first entrance, is faine to haue the booke to speak what he should performe.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Buriasso,..a prompter, or one that keepes the book for plaiers.

a1629 F. Bacon Hist. Reigne Henry VIII (1629) 21 None could hold the Booke so well to prompt and instruct this Stage-Play, as she could.

1749 W. R. Chetwood Gen. Hist. Stage 133 After I had wrote out my Part of Massiva, I carried him the Book of the Play to study the Part of King Massinissa.

1879 D. K. Ranous Diary of Daly Débutante 5 Sept. (1910) 6 Old Mr. Moore held the book of the play, and the actors moved slowly about the stage with manuscript copies of their rôles in their hands.

1895 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 2 Feb. 151/2 The play was..pulled to pieces in order that some bad scenery..might destroy all the illusion which the simple stage directions in the book create.

1904 Playgoer Feb. 81/1 (advt.) Music by Hugo Felix. Lyrics by Adrian Ross. Book adapted by Chas. E. Hands.

1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage vi. 82 By the time that the principals are rehearsing regularly again the company are working without their books.

1943 Billboard 10 July 13/2 A musical comedy staged by Richard Kollmar, with book and lyrics by George Marion Jr., and music by Thomas (Fats) Waller.

1970 Times 7 Jan. 9/6 Promises, Promises stands head and shoulders above other current musical offerings,..not simply because it has a witty and intelligent book.

2011 J. McCabe-Juhnke in J. Shailor Performing new Lives viii. 135 I've spent time with my book, and with others, to be sure I know the lines. But that doesn't do any good when Larry blows his lines.

b. The words to which music is set, esp. when published separately; the libretto of an opera, oratorio, etc.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > opera > [noun] > libretto

testo1724

book1733

libretto1741

book of words1785

scena1788

wordbook1862

text1891

1733 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 611/2 The Book of the Opera of Opera's: Or Tom Thumb the Great.

1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 180 A small pamphlet, it might be the book of the opera.

1882 Daily News 18 July 2/2 Tuneful gems of a work which deserved a stronger book.

1921 C. Engel Alla Breve xiv. 191 During the following winter, Wagner wrote the book of ‘Die Meistersinger,’..he began to compose the music at Bieberich, on the Rhein, in 1862.

1992 Contemp. Theatre Rev. 1 51 Boris Krevchenko..wrote the book of the opera based on the complete text of Alexander Pushkin's fairy tale About the Priest and His Servant Balda.

c. Chiefly Jazz. The repertoire or sheet music of a band or musician.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > sheet music > repertoire of

book1939

1939 New Republic 17 May 47 If the road man wanted to pack Ziggy's book half an hour before the show broke he would say yeah, yeah, yeah.

1944 Billboard 2 Sept. 20/3 Boyd Raeburn is adding 40 new hot arrangements to his book as a result of the Palisades (N.J.) Park fire which destroyed much of the band's music.

1968 G. Schuller Early Jazz vi. 273 Carter, in Keep a Song in Your Soul,..fashioned one of the great arrangements in the Henderson book.

2002 K. Mathieson Cookin' 136 The pianist contributed a great deal of material to the band's book in his long tenure with them.

11. Betting.

a. A record of the bets accepted by a person (esp. a bookmaker), originally kept in a notebook. In early use also: a book recording the bets made by a person; = betting-book n. at betting n.¹ Compounds. to open a book: to invite or accept bets, offer odds (on possible outcomes of an event). Cf. to make (a) book at make v.¹ 17d, to run a book at run v. 81d.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > book-maker's equipment > betting book or slip

book1714

betting-book1813

betting-slip1927

handbook1946

horse-book1962

1714 G. Lockhart Mem. Affairs Scotl. 215 The Articles themselves were kept a mighty Secret, no Copies being allow'd of them, and in England a Proclamation emitted, prohibiting all Books and Wagers on that Subject.

1812 Sporting Mag. 40 70/1 This is the exact statement of my bets, as my book left with Mr. Smith, Clerk of the Subscription-Betting-Room, at Tattersall's, for the inspection of the public, will prove.

1836 B. Disraeli Henrietta Temple III. xv. 196 Go and take all the odds you can get upon Goshawk. Come, now, tomorrow you will tell me you have a very pretty book.

1869 J. Greenwood Seven Curses London vi. xxii. 294 The pretty pair may with impunity renounce all responsibility, and open a book on the next race on the programme.

1926 Pop. Mech. Oct. 581/1 Reduce the odds offered to fractions, add up, and the result, if it was an honest book, at fair odds (which no book can be, if the bookmaker is to earn his living) should total one.

1988 J. Stevenson Fair Deal in Betting (Sporting Life) (ed. 2) 27 A book would be severely out of balance if the bookmaker were to be held to the prices he had laid for the other horses while the withdrawn horse was still in the market and the money for it in his satchel.

2002 Church Times 11 Jan. 3/4 Books were opened on who would be the next Archbishop of Canterbury just hours after the announcement that Dr Carey was to retire.

b. colloquial (Australian, New Zealand, and U.S.). = bookmaker n. 3. Cf. bookie n.²

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > book-making > book-maker

commission agent1798

flash-man1812

bookmaker1833

commissioner1851

ring man1857

metallician1861

street bookmaker1867

bookie1877

book1881

knight of the pencil1885

handbook man1894

street bookie1911

turf accountant1915

listman1922

1881 Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Jan. 5/1 Then comes a hoarse roar from the books. ‘Three to one you don't name it.’

1891 Truth (Sydney) 11 Jan. 5/7 It must be evident to those who are not blind that bona fide bookmakers must soon cease to attend pony meetings; and experience shows that when the ‘books’ begin to leave, the game is up.

1900 C. L. Cullen Taking Chances 16 The books give them the cold-storage countenance and say, ‘Nix, no more’.

1972 E. Grogan Ringolevio 13 The books had promised a third of the take to whichever side won.

1981 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 21 June 23 (headline) Books pay out—with a smile.

2000 G. V. Higgins At End of Day 52 If you hit a run of bad luck bettin' on the ponies with Tommy the Book..that'd mean you'd have to tell the wife, and she didn't know you bet?

12. With the. A (notional) rule book or instruction manual; (hence) the way things are usually or conventionally done. See also by the book at Phrases 2e.

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society > authority > control > [noun] > regulation > a regulation or rule > book of

ordinala1393

rule book1586

book of rules1639

book1848

book of words1929

1848 Cultivator May 143/1 Gentlemen..owning from 50 to 200 acres of land near a good market, may farm it according to the book.

1872 Philadelphia Photographer June 193/2 The old medical professor, who practiced according to the book, and who..cautioned them to beware of those dangerous innovations.

1932 N. Y. Herald Tribune 22 May (Mag.) 8/4 Mr. Lewis..is one of those [bridge] players who is not ‘a slave to the book’, but will use unusual measures in unusual situations.

1950 Sunday Sun (Baltimore) 7 May c12/1 As a video interviewer today, she says she has thrown away the book on ‘How to Ad Lib’.

1968 A. Diment Great Spy Race i. iii. 32 They keep rigidly to the book down here.

1996 J. McCormick & S. Fisher-Hoch Level 4: Virus Hunters of CDC ii. 29 I decided that this investigation needed to be done according to the book.

13. slang (originally U.S.). The maximum penalty or charge for a person accused of criminal activity. Chiefly in to throw the book at a person: to charge a person with every possible offence; to sentence a person as severely as possible; also in extended use. Also to get (also do) the book: to be imprisoned for the maximum term for a crime.

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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > charge, accuse, or indict [verb (transitive)] > with all offences

to throw the book at a person1908

society > authority > punishment > [verb (intransitive)] > receive punishment > be punished severely

to buy the bargain dear1352

smart1534

sweata1625

to nap it1699

to get it1805

to catch or get Jesse1839

to get (also catch, take) it in the neck1881

to get beans1893

to get (also do) the book1928

1908 J. Hopper & F. R. Bechdolt 9009 i. 7 You'll wish they'd handed you the book and you'd been hung.

1911 G. Bronson-Howard Enemy to Society iii. 42 As soon as they finds you've got no political pull, the judges and all git very moral; throw the book at you and tell you to add up the sentences in it.

1928 R. J. Tasker Grimhaven (1929) i. 11 I'm doing one life jolt, and two one-to-fiftys..—yes sir, doing the book.

1939 Los Angeles Times 14 Nov. ii. 11/3 The commission threw the book at him by grounding him for 25 racing days.

1961 J. Heller Catch-22 (1962) viii. 74 He was formally charged with ‘breaking ranks while in formation, felonious assault, indiscriminate behaviour, mopery, high treason, provoking, being a smart guy, listening to classical music, and so on’. In short, they threw the book at him.

1975 Bull. (Sydney) 26 Apr. 44 Dead set the best bake in history they give me and I got the book for a shit pot dud.

2005 Independent 10 Oct. 28/4 They can add all sorts of other charges..they don't have to throw the book at him at the beginning.

14. U.S. Sport. Accumulated knowledge or experience of an opposing player or team's performance, strengths, weaknesses, etc. Also in extended use: the relevant facts about something; inside knowledge, the lowdown.

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1952 N.Y. Times 31 Dec. 18/7 ‘They didn't have no weaknesses,’ growled Yogi... ‘We had the book on every hitter and we'd gone over them thoroughly.’

1955 R. Graziano & R. Barber Somebody up there likes Me ii. 120 Back in the Tombs, they gave me the book on this joint, Coxackie.

1971 Boys' Life Mar. 66/2 As a scorer, the Goose had one weakness: He always tried to be the perfectionist... Goalies had the ‘book’ on him.

1985 E. Leonard Glitz 55 You could always deal with guys at the top. But little guys with wild hairs up their ass, there was no book on guys like that.

2012 J. Roenick J.R.: My Life as most Outspoken Man in Hockey 271 As a shooter, I had no book on him. You would shoot high, and he would throw up a glove or pad and stop you.

Phrases

P1. Noun phrases, chiefly with of.

book of account n. (also book of accounts) an account book, a ledger; = sense 2b.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book

book of account1444

accounts book1461

counting-book15..

accounting booka1555

account book1590

count-book1607

codicila1704

viewbook1718

bill-book1774

stock book1835

account ledger1879

1444 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) V. 126/1 The Rolles and bokes of accompt of the Baillifs.

1484 in J. Gairdner Lett. Reigns of Richard III & Henry VII (1861) I. 85 The bookes of accomptes..[are to] be alway in the handes of the said auditours for their presidence.

1558 P. Morwen tr. A. ben David ibn Daud Hist. Latter Tymes Iewes Commune Weale f. xxiii^v Thei burnte his bokes of accompts & billes of debts euerychone yt were in his palaice.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Erasmus in Panoplie Epist. 343 F. G. who is so deepely in your bookes of accountes.

a1613 T. Bodley in I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. (1817) 1st Ser. III. 169 (modernized text) Let all these riches be treasured up..in good writings and books of account.

1683 J. Locke Let. 26 Aug. (1976) II. 602 I think you were best lock my book of accounts up in my scriptor when you go out of town.

1728 Stamford Mercury 4 Jan. 8/2 A Book of Accounts relating to the Business of..Anthony Nicholes, Cheese-Factor.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. iii. xxiii. 369 Abroad..a man's own books of accounts..with the suppletory oath of the merchant, amount at all times to full proof.

1828 J. Jervis & E. Younge Rep. Cases Court of Exchequer I. 28 The defendant..set forth a schedule containing the dates only of books of account, intitled ‘Easter Books’.

1864 W. P. Fessenden in Times 24 Dec. 8/5 The power to compel an exhibit of books of account.

1928 R. G. Williams Elem. Bk.-keeping xiv. 240 The preparation of the statement of affairs may possibly depend upon information which is not supplied by the books of account.

1997 Accountancy Apr. 20/3 The right of shareholders to inspect books of account, whether or not it was widely exercised, was considered an essential component of the system of accountability.

Book of God n. (also God's book; in early use also †God's books) a holy book, esp. the Bible or the Qur'an.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > [noun]

Holy Writc900

writeOE

God's bookOE

writOE

bookOE

Biblea1300

holy lettrurec1330

scripturec1330

the (sacred or holy) writings1340

gospel1393

worda1425

escripture1489

Holy Write1508

theologya1513

the written word1533

Book of God1548

oracle1548

hand biblea1680

good book1740

sacred book1782

the sacred volume1850

bibliotheca1879

Kitab1885

OE Blickling Homilies 21 Gehyron we nu..hwæt awriten is on Godes bocum.

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxxv. 300 Se ðe god lufað and men, he hylt ealle godes bec.

c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 140 Ac he us þa bysene onstealde þæt we sceolon yfelræ mannæ hate..forberæn, and symle Godes bocæ teachunge ȝeorne fylȝean.

1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. A.ii All thinges that are written in Goddes boke.

1581 P. Wiburn Checke or Reproofe M. Howlets Shreeching f. 175 Wherefore be aduised, Leaue this hollow hollownes of poperie, Embrace Christes true religion prescribed and described in Gods book.

1591 H. Smith Restit. Nabuchadnezzer sig. B3 They which vnderstand not yet what is the booke of God, are but horse and mule, though they beare the visors of men.

a1649 T. Shepard Parable Ten Virgins (1660) i. xiii. 130 What is this but to take from Gods Book, and he that so doth, God will blot him out of the Book of Life.

1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 191 I have by my sins run a great way into Gods Book .

1718 S. Ockley Hist. Saracens (ed. 2) I. 371 Abu Obeidah..came to Ali, and ask'd him, If he would take the Government upon him, upon Condition that he should be obliged to administer according to what was contained in the Book of God.

?1882 J. A. Allen True & Romantic Love-story Col. & Mrs. Hutchinson 67 Our love was, as our life, predestinate, Sure, from the first, writ in the book of God.

1967 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Grain of Wheat ii. 13 Its origins can, so the people say, be traced to the day the whiteman came to the country, clutching the book of God in both hands.

2004 Foreign Affairs Jan. 50 We demand from the Shi'ite youth that they return to the book of God and the Sunna of Muhammad.

Book of Hours n. (also with lower-case initials) historical a devotional book of a type popular in the later Middle Ages, spec. one intended for private reading and meditation by the laity and containing prayers or offices appointed for certain hours of the day, days of the week, seasons, etc.; cf. primer n.¹ 1.A characteristic feature of many surviving medieval books of hours is their rich and colourful illumination, often depicting seasonally appropriate activities.Also shortened to hours (see hour n. 5).

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society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > other books > [noun] > devotional book

primer1378

ordinarya1475

rosary1525

diurnal?a1550

Book of Hours1709

1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xix. 227 This Book doth Mr.Cosins mention in the Preface to his Book Of Hours, Entitled, A Collection of Private Devotions in the Practice of the Ancient Church.

1773 Catal. Museum Curiosities James West 21 A most curious Book of Hours, with illuminations of the finest colouring.

1848 Rambler 19 Aug. 368/1 The books of Hours for the use of the faithful did not contain the Ordinary of the Mass. A translation into the vulgar tongue of the Canon of the Mass would have been regarded as a profanation.

1921 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. 48 260 The ‘Books of Hours’ or ‘Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis’..received their name from the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary which forms the most important part of these laymen's prayer books.

1964 Time 25 Dec. 40/3 Some of the medieval age's greatest treasures are its books of hours... These Christian almanacs are crammed with prayers, psalms, and calendars of saints' days.

2008 K. Swift Morville Hours (2009) 41 The Bodleian Library's most precious Book of Hours—known as the Breviary of Henry VII or the Hours of the Fastolf Master, sumptuously illuminated in France in about 1440-50 for a wealthy English patron.

book of lading n. now historical a book recording details of cargoes carried.

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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > cargo > book or list of cargo > bill of lading, etc.

cargason1588

bill of lading1599

cargo1678

book of lading1806

shipping-bill1833

1806 Bibliotheca Manuscripta Lansdowniana I. 140 Vol. XXXVI.—Lot. 36..Fol...4. John Bland's Book of Lading, with the certificates of the Provisions he hath sent from Chester and Bristol to Dublin, 1582.

1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 130 Book of lading, book kept by the master of a vessel, containing particulars of the cargo.

1926 Yale Law Rev. 35 55 The book of lading was not originally in any sense a contract or evidence of it.

2002 E. T. Laryea Paperless Trade v. 64 The modern bill of lading started as an excerpt from an entry in a book of lading maintained by carriers.

book of life n. (also †book of livers, book of (the) living, †life's book, †life's books) (in biblical language and allusive use) a record of the names of those to be rewarded with eternal life. [In book of life after post-classical Latin liber vitae (Vulgate, e.g. Philippians 4:3, Revelation 20:12), itself after Hellenistic Greek βίβλος ζωῆς, βιβλίον ζωῆς (New Testament: Philippians 4:3, Revelation 20:12, respectively); in book of livers, book of the living after post-classical Latin liber viventium (Vulgate, e.g. Psalm 68:29).]

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society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > imaginary or reputed book

book of lifeOE

book1561

tome1610

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) ii. 192 Þæt ure naman beon awritene on lifes bec mid his gecorenum.

OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 22 Sept. 215 Þa oðra noman syndon awritene on heofenum on lifes bocum.

OE Hymns (Durh. B.iii.32) xcv. 8 in I. Milfull Hymns of Anglo-Saxon Church (1996) 351 Nostraque simul nomina in libro vitae conserat : & ure samod naman on bec lifes he gesette.

a1300 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Jesus Oxf.) 376 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 71 On him heo schullen fynden al þat mon may luste And on lyues bee [read bec; a1225 Digby in liue boc] iseon al þat heo her nusten.

c1300 St. Mark (Laud) 32 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 363 Þi name is i-write in eche boke of liue.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms lxviii. 29 Fro the boc of lyueres [L. de libro viventium].

a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) lxviii. 33 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 200/1 Of boke of liuand [L. de libro viventium] be þai done awai.

a1450 Lessons of Dirige (Digby) 111 in J. Kail 26 Polit. Poems (1904) 111 In bok of lyf þo þat be named To ioye of heuene mon be sent.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cxlvi. §4. 484 All thaire namys ere writen in the boke of life.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxviii. D Let them be wyped out of ye boke of the lyuinge, & not be written amonge the rightuous.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iii. 194 If euer I were traitour, My name be blotted from the booke of life .

1611 Bible (King James) Rev. iii. 5 I will not blot out his name out of the booke of life [Gk. ἐκ τῆς βίβλου τῆς ζωῆς] .

1684 T. Hockin Disc. God's Decrees 359 Some bold Fiduciaries..confidently pretend that their names are certainly written in the Book of Life.

a1711 T. Ken Preparatives for Death in Wks. (1721) IV. 102 Each Grain of Charitable Gold, Is in the Book of Life enroll'd.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 161/1 A prophet ought not to pronounce against their nation the prophecies with which he was inspired; but was rather to beg of God to expunge his name out of the book of the living.

1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd III. ix. ix. 293 It was as if he stood face to face in the presence, confessing every sin that the recording angel had written in the ancient volume of the Book of Life against him.

1898 K. Drumgoold in H. L. Gates Six Women's Slave Narr. (1988) 10 A few years later and mother's name was enrolled in the Lambs' Book of Life, for she gladly answered to the roll call and fell asleep in the arms of Jesus.

1934 in J. A. Lomax & A. Lomax Amer. Ballads xvi. 411 No maverick or slick will be tallied In that great book of life in His home.

2000 T. LaHaye & J. B. Jenkins Mark xix. 347 To me the Book of the Living is a picture of the mercy of God.

book of rates n. now historical a book listing official valuations of commodities, esp. for tax or customs purposes.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > book

book of rates1565

toll-book1607

1565 Ordinance Bk. Merchants of Staple (Staple Company of Eng.) (1937) 120 The clerke..shall..enter every mans parcelle..into a booke of sales called the booke of rates.

1580 R. Hakluyt in Princ. Navigations (1599) I. 441 Take with you the booke of Rates, to the ende you may pricke all those commodities there specified.

1651 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 119. 1850 According to the price of corn, and Book of Rates.

1729 Warkworth Vestry Minutes 14 Apr. in S. Webb & B. Webb Eng. Local Govt. (1906) I. vi. 216 Twice and a half the book of rates for or upon account of the poor for this running year.

1764 H. Wilmot Let. 3 Mar. in Jenkinson Papers (1949) 269 Paneels are not called sugar in the Book of Rates.

1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 130 Book of rates, books specifying the customary duties on all goods payable at the Custom-House.

1912 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 26 766 The Book of Rates of 1583 explicitly states that the rates, or official valuations for customs purposes, were issued by Queen Mary in the first year of her reign.

2010 N. Zahedieh Capital & Colonies i. 12 Most goods were taxed at the official valuations given in the book of rates..and thus no value was recorded in the portbooks.

book of rules n. a book containing rules or regulations concerning a particular matter or for a specific organization; also figurative in later use; = rule book n.

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society > authority > control > [noun] > regulation > a regulation or rule > book of

ordinala1393

rule book1586

book of rules1639

book1848

book of words1929

1639 Distiller of London 2 His Maiesty hath therein given speciall command, That a Book of Rules and Directions concerning Distillation of Strong-waters, &c. and making Vinegars, &c. should be compiled, and by us approved and allowed.

1706 Daily Courant 1 Apr. 2/2 A Book of Rules to direct young Beginners in their stating the usual occurrences in Trade.

1818 Some Acct. Establishment Savings Bank, School-street, Dublin 17 The rules for the management of such institutions..shall be entered in a book,..which book of rules shall be open at all seasonable times for the inspection of persons making deposits in the funds of such institutions.

1938 Chicago Sunday Tribune 9 Oct. (Graphic section) 5/2 It may very well be that the hat that does most for the tall, striking girl is one of the new mad numbers that fly up a foot in the air. In that case she should tear up the book of rules and buy the hat!

1957 J. Osborne Look Back in Anger iii. ii. 88 Helena You've more right to be here than I. Alison Oh, Helena, don't bring out the book of rules.

2009 Western Mail (Nexis) 6 Jan. 8 Lawn tennis was invented at Nantclwyd Hall, near Ruthin, by the..owner, who went on to..patent..the game, publish a book of rules, and market a kit of racquets, balls, a net and posts.

book of service n. now rare a service book (see service n.¹ Compounds 2).

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?1498 J. Alcock In die Innocencium Sermo (de Worde) sig. bij/1 The fourme and the maner how that we sholde worshyp and loue almyghty god in the thre ages..Is shewed to vs by a prety conceyte of our comyn kalender, in euery boke of seruyce.

1566 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 84 A mass booke portas wythe all other bookes of saruys.

1857 Harper's Mag. Dec. 28/1 After the reading came the Liturgy (the book of service being a translation into Tamil of the amended Common Prayer used by the English Unitarians).

1977 Guardian 4 Feb. 7/7 This alternative prayer book will be the Church's first official composite book of service since 1662.

2009 Eng. Lit. Renaissance 39 373 This statute clearly articulates..the need..to prevent Cranmer's Prayer Book from having to compete with any other reformed books of service.

book of the film n. (also book of a film) a version in book form of the script or story of a cinema film; (also) the book upon which a film is based.

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society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > book of film

book of the film1929

1929 H. G. Wells King who was King (subtitle) The Book of a Film.

1932 Q. D. Leavis Fiction & Reading Public i. i. 16 The filmgoer wishes also to read the book of the film, and the reader to see the picture.

1955 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Sept. 560/3 Those who would give us the great classics of Greece and Rome in the ‘rude language’ shorn of all ‘superflue’ of some rewritten book-of-the-film.

2008 Film Hist. 20 150/2 The..bookshop..stank to high heaven but we found several ‘goodies’ including an early book-of-the-film, Ultus (1916), possibly the first British spy-thriller.

book of the month n. a book chosen by a club, publication, etc., as the most outstanding during a particular month; frequently attributive.

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society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > best book of month

book of the month1846

1846 Almanack of Month Jan. 38 This [sc. Dickens' Cricket on the Hearth] is something more than the book of the month, for it is, par excellence, the book of the year.

1933 F. R. Leavis & A. D. H. Thompson Culture & Environment 42 The Committee select their ‘books of the month’.

1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end iv. 52 The mezzo-brow ‘Book of the Month’ choice of the dailies.

1947 Horizon Oct. 4 Book-of-the-month clubs.

2001 Book Mar. 53/1 The book..is a Book of the Month Club Main Selection and has had its foreign rights already sold in five countries.

book of words n. (also book of the words) (a) the libretto of an opera, etc. (cf. sense 10b); (b) colloquial any written or printed record or set of rules or instructions; also in extended use.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > opera > [noun] > libretto

testo1724

book1733

libretto1741

book of words1785

scena1788

wordbook1862

text1891

society > authority > control > [noun] > regulation > a regulation or rule > book of

ordinala1393

rule book1586

book of rules1639

book1848

book of words1929

1785 C. Burney Acct. Musical Performances 24 This performance was called an oratorio; but in examining the printed book of the words..it appears that this exhibition was miscellaneous.

1885 G. B. Shaw How to become Musical Critic (1960) 108 A gentleman who carries a bundle of white pamphlets, and cries incessantly ‘Book of the words! Program! Book of the words!’

1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. ii. ii. 288 Don't say these things. Think 'em but don't put 'em in the book of words.

1930 E. George Down Our Street 1 There was nothink ag'inst me, but I was known to frequent bad comp'ny. That's 'ow they put it in the book of words.

1942 P. G. Wodehouse Money in Bank iii. 30 There's nothing in the book of the words to prevent Mrs. Cork having the bozo..stowed away in the cooler, if he's a thief.

2000 M. Springfels in R. W. Duffin Performer's Guide Medieval Music ii. vi. 307 The reciters were expected to appear at these events with a book of words and a fiddle.

book-to-bill ratio n. Business and Economics the ratio of new orders to completed sales in the semiconductor industry, regarded as an economic indicator for overall trends in the technology sector.

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1977 Barron's National Business & Financial Weekly 3 Jan. 43/2 (advt.) New orders continue to run significantly higher than shipments with a book to bill ratio exceeding 1.4 in the third quarter.

1986 Economist 19 Apr. 83/1 The Industry's bellwether, the book-to-bill ratio, has revived to around one to one, which means that chip-makers' order books are no longer shrinking.

2001 S. E. Frank Networth v. 163 A book-to-bill ratio of 1 means the company has as many orders left to fill as it has just filled (in other words, its business is steady). A book-to-bill ratio of less than 1 means business is slowing down, and a book-to-bill ratio of greater than 1 means that business is picking up.

P2.

a. without (†one's) book (in early use also † bout book): without the aid of a book, from memory, by rote; (figurative) without authority.

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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > memorization > [adverb]

on breastOE

bout bookOE

by rotea1325

by hearta1387

without (one's) booka1413

par coeura1425

cordially1479

perqueerc1480

cordiala1500

by the book1556

memoriter1612

memorially1660

from memory1856

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > questionable state or quality > state of being unprovable > [adjective] > lacking authority

singlec1449

wavering?a1513

without (one's) booka1569

unauthoritative1644

inauthoritative1659

OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) ix. 34 Æfter þam fylige capitel of þæra apostola lare gemyndelice butan bec [a1225 Winteney buten bocc] gesæd.

a1300 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 74 Leorny bute bok vych del.

a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) v. l. 291 This knew he wel y-nough with-oute book.

c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 212 Which gouernauncis he schulde kepe whilis he is reding, or vocaly withoute book speking.

1564 Advertmts. in E. Cardwell Documentary Ann. Church Eng. (1839) I. 294 The archedeacon shall appoynte the curates to certaine taxes of the Newe Testamente to bee conde without booke. And at theire nexte synode to exact a rehearsall of them.

a1569 A. Kingsmill Viewe Mans Estate (1580) xii. 88 Sainct Paule..speaketh not without booke, but of experience.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 3 You must get it perfectly without booke, to saie it forwards and backwards.

1615 W. Hull Mirrour of Majestie 24 But, in so saying, he spake without his booke.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. iii. 25 He..speaks three or four languages word for word without booke.

1692 J. Locke Toleration ii, in Wks. (1727) II. 272 To shew you that I do not speak wholly without Book.

a1707 S. Patrick Auto-biogr. (1839) 87 The very prayers of the Liturgy, which I said without book.

1736 Gentleman's Mag. June 334/1 Let the Boys be set a running, as it were, with one another, in getting without Book.

1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 257 To speak loosely and without book.

1906 R. Whiteing Ring in New xiii. 95 Then Mary, with her head thrown back and her eyes closed, for she knew the whole composition without book, played one of the sublime choruses of nymphs and shepherds.

1992 E. L. Mascall Saraband vi. 130 Having had to memorise the Masonic rites and repeat them without book, he felt obliged to do the same with the Church's Liturgy.

†b. to drive (a person) to (a) book: to compel (a person) to give evidence on oath. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > evidence > give evidence of [verb (transitive)] > cause to give evidence on oath

to drive (a person) to (a) bookc1450

c1450 (?a1400) T. Chestre Sir Launfal (1930) l. 785 To say þe soþ, without les,..xii knyȝtis were dryue to boke [c1500 Rawl. dreuyn to a boke].

†(a) out of a person's books: out of favour with a person. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disfavour > disfavouring [phrase] > out of favour

out of a person's books1509

in bad bread1743

in (also into) a person's bad books1832

in the doghouse1926

1509 Parlyament Deuylles (de Worde) sig. A.vi He is out of our bokes, and we out of his.

1566 Earl of Bedford Let. 3 Aug. in W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. (1787) II. App. 434 He is so far out of her books, as at her going out of the Castle of Edinburgh, to remove abroad, he knew nothing thereof.

1673 Bp. S. Parker Reproof Rehearsal Transprosed 490 I verily believe to have trumpeted this in his Majesty's ears (as much as I am out of your Books for it).

1795 J. Cobb Cherokee ii. 27 I have quite done with her;—She's out of my books, I have erased her name, for she has used me cursed ill.

1871 C. H. Pearson Young Pioneers of North-West xv. 173 You'll set that down as a fib, I'm afraid, and mark me out of your books.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. ix. 117 I am rather out of her books just now, but you will be quite in favor if you treat her live-stock well.

(b) in (also into) a person's good books (also † in (also into) a person's books): in (or into) favour with a person.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > favour > in favour [phrase]

in (also into) a person's books1618

well1670

in good standing with1755

in (also into) a person's good books1839

1618 T. Adams Happines of Church 90 By this Booke I thinke he meanes Gods fauour: as we vsually say, to be in a mans fauour, is to be in his bookes.

1676 Modest Acct. Wicked Life Lodowick Muggleton A little before Oliver's Death, Muggleton, by continual Flatteries, had got into his Books.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxi. 304 If you want to keep in the good books in that quarter, you had better not call her the old lady.

1894 Argosy Jan. 40 He wished to coax his mother, and be in her good books.

1938 J. Masefield Dead Ned 284 You'd ought to be careful with the judy. It's best to keep in her good books.

1957 Times of India 1 Oct. 6/3 I had to work my way into the good books of an elder brother was a ‘working man’ and therefore rich, beyond my dreams of avarice.

1980 M. Frayn Make & Break i, in Plays: One (1985) 290 If you want to get in his good books, talk to him about spaniels... His wife breeds them.

2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane 262 Since defying her wishes and agreeing to allow Razia to go up to Cambridge, he was not exactly in her good books.

(c) in (also into) a person's bad books: in (or into) disfavour with a person. See also black book n. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disfavour > disfavouring [phrase] > out of favour

out of a person's books1509

in bad bread1743

in (also into) a person's bad books1832

in the doghouse1926

1832 New Sporting Mag. Oct. 439/1 It is windmill holiday, and the old ‘milner’, with flourless face and unpowdered coat, travels incognito among his customers, coming suddenly upon some of them who are in his bad books.

1861 W. S. Perry Hist. Church Eng. I. xii. 403 The Arminians, who at that time were in his bad books.

1940 M. Dickens Mariana iv. 110 Geoff, I must go, I daren't get in the old trout's bad books at this stage.

1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) x. 281 Let us not come into your bad books, if that's at all possible.

2002 BusinessWeek 22 July 50/1 Like most media companies, Pearson is now in investors' bad books.

†d. out of one's book (also books): out of one's reckoning, mistaken. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [adjective]

erringa1340

overseena1393

willa1400

out of one's book (also books)1549

straying1553

faulting1566

deceived1569

seek1569

tripping1577

amiss1582

mistaking1582

naught1597

errant1609

solecistical1654

solecismical1656

wrong1695

solecistic1865

1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie sig. Diiij If you folowe theym, you are oute of youre boke.

1602 Bp. M. Smith Learned Serm. Worcester 11 Why he should be so odious to him, and so farre out of his bookes.

e. by the book (also †by book): (in early use) in a set manner, by rote; formally; (later) conventionally, in accordance with the rules (cf. sense 12). Also attributive: that follows the rules, conventional.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > memorization > [adverb]

on breastOE

bout bookOE

by rotea1325

by hearta1387

without (one's) booka1413

par coeura1425

cordially1479

perqueerc1480

cordiala1500

by the book1556

memoriter1612

memorially1660

from memory1856

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > conformity to or with a pattern, etc. > in conformity with or according to [phrase] > according to rule

by the book1556

in form1703

1556 E. Bonner Honest Instr. Bringinge vp Children Pref. sig. A.ii^v To knowe by the boke, & thereby to auoyde, the seuen deadly synnes.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. v. 109 You kisse by the booke .

a1658 J. Cleveland Vituperium Uxoris in Wks. (1687) 269 She..To scold by Book will take upon her, Rhetorically chide him.

1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green 69 Furth started neist a pensy Blade, And out a Maiden took, They said that he was Falkland bred, And danced by the Book.

1843 E. A. Poe Murders in Rue Morgue in Prose Romances 11 To have a retentive memory, and to proceed by ‘the book’, are points commonly regarded as the sum total of good playing.

1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 148/2 You can't bring a baby up by book.

1965 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 10 Jan. 11 b/3 His by-the-book approach to code enforcement.

1986 E. E. Scharff Worldly Power xiii. 235 His writing had always been plodding, say editors, and he was considered a by-the-book sort of bureau chief.

2005 N.Y. Mag. 23 May 26/2 He co-wrote a memoir in 1992..a hackneyed..tale of a cage-rattler who bucked the system and never did anything by the book.

f. to be (deep, far, etc.) in (or into) a person's books and variants: to owe a person money; to get into debt with a creditor. Now rare.

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a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. f.iii For though their apparell be neuer so fine, Yet sure their credit is farre worse then mine: And by cocke I may say, for all their hie lookes, I know some stickes full deepe in Marchants bookes.

1611 R. Fenton Treat. Vsurie ii. vii. 67 If a man once begin to sinke into his [sc. a usurer's] bookes, he will sucke him vp like a gulfe.

1640 H. Mill Nights Search lii. 256 Being run so far into her books, They're in distresse: the principall with use She'le make them pay.

1734 H. Fielding Don Quixote in Eng. i. x. 18 He is far enough in my Books already.

1752 W. Chaigneau Hist. Jack Connor II. vii. 60 I believe..I am pretty deep in your Books.—The last Christening consum'd a deal of Wine.

1856 Melbourne Punch 7 Apr. 1/3 I am favorable to state aid to religion, as otherwise ministers of the Gospel would get pretty deep into the books of retail tradesmen.

1913 Agric. Cooperation & Rural Credit in Europe (63rd U.S. Congr. 1st Sess. Senate Doc. 214) 483 The shopkeeper..can establish a more effective..control of the farmer's industry. Once well in his books the farmer without capital is his creature, and in due time too often his victim.

g. on (also upon) the books.

(a) On a register of members, clients, patients, etc. Cf. to take (also strike, etc.) off the books at Phrases 2k(a).

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society > communication > record > written record > [adverb]

in scripturec1400

on (also upon) the books1714

1714 J. Egleton Vindic. Commons rejecting Treaty Nav. Pref. 4 Whether a Person in Court, who had been enter'd on the Books as polling for all the Candidates, should not lose his Vote.

1788 H. Watson in Med. Communications 2 258 She..continued on the books as an out-patient.

1858 J. Graham Jerusalem, its Missions, Schools, Converts, &c. under Bishop Gobat 44 He..saw the head-master, and the house-master, and found that..the lad was down on the books as having entered at Whitsunday 1854.

1887 Sun (Baltimore) 25 Oct. 1/8 Not a single bogus or fictitious name was shown upon the books.

1973 P. Arnold & C. Davis Hamlyn Bk. World Soccer 217/1 Portsmouth, in the sixties, were among the first to employ a first-team squad only, with about fifteen players on the books.

2002 V. Coren & C. Skelton Once more, with Feeling xx. 147 So we need a bisexual: handsome, young, blond, innocent..and on the books of a professional porn agency.

(b) Of a law: in force. Cf. sense 3c, on the statute books at statute book n. Phrases.

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1754 Universal Advertiser 21 Feb. 134 I desire to know by what Law? There is no such express Law on the Books.

1845 Universalist Watchman 15 Nov. 139/3 Nearly all the partialist clergy will do all in their power to keep the law on the books.

1896 Atlanta Constit. 23 Jan. 3/4 It did more to check the ways of the toughs there than did the laws upon the books.

1930 Jrnl. Farm Econ. 12 360 When emergencies arise, it is a good time to put basic needed legislation on the books.

1980 Sci. Amer. Apr. 63/3 Texas, which already has such a capital-punishment law on the books, currently ranks second in the nation, with 119 on death row.

2011 New Yorker 2 May 31/1 The Royal Marriages Act of 1772, which is still on the books, forbids any member of the Royal Family to marry without her [sc. the Queen's] permission.

(a) to close (also shut) the books: (of a business, etc.) to make no further entries to an account, typically as a temporary measure at the end of a fiscal period; (also) to suspend business operations.

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society > trade and finance > [verb (transitive)] > impede, restrict, or suspend trade > esp. business operations

to close (also shut) the books1695

1695 Abstr. Proposals for Bank on Tickets of Million-adventure (single sheet) A Committee of 24 Managers is to be chosen by the General Meeting within five Days after closing the Books, and then the present Trustees to deliver the Tickets and Money to the said Committee, and to be discharged of their Trust.

1773 Town & Country Mag. Aug. 443/2 All the officers of œconomy in that duchy are to close their books, and Danish officers are to be placed in their stations.

1787 W. Combe Anderson's Hist. Origin Commerce (rev. ed.) II. 236 As they shut their books twice in a year, for a few days, to strike a general balance, their true capital is then certainly known.

1804 J. Barrow Acc. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–98 II. 380 The number of these loan farms registered in the office of the receiver of the land revenue, on closing the books in 1798, were..1832.

1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. Feb. 46 The oldest merchants are ‘shutting their books’, as they express it.

1903 System June 79/1 They have found it desirable that each month's business be kept separate, so they take a trial balance and close the books every month.

1952 Financial Times 2 Apr. 6/7 Within those six months prices dropped 20s a pound, with the natural result that buyers of yarn and cloth completely shut their books and ceased to operate.

2013 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 26 June 36 My experience is bond rates can move back quite quickly... Who knows what they will be in three days' time when we close the books.

(b) to close (also shut) the book(s) on: to draw a line under (a difficult or distressing issue, situation, etc.); to expend no further energy on (something), to resolve not to engage in further discussion or consideration of.

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1811 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1809: Proc. India House 221/1 Mr. Peter Moore thought it would be much the best way to close the book on what was past, and turn down the leaf.

1905 Daily Nevada State Jrnl. 9 Sept. 8/3 The [funeral] services will be conducted by Rev. Mr. Darneille. This will close the book on one of the most brutal murders on record.

1929 N.Y. Times 2 Aug. 1/2 It seemed to me more satisfactory, more dignified, to tell the story of the last eight years once and for all and close the book on those pages of my life and work.

1944 Billboard 20 May 67/1 When he sold his World Famous California Bears animal-act, he shut the book on a career of 18 years.

1981 D. Shapiro Autonomy & Rigid Char. v. 114 The masochistic person cannot permit himself to close the books on old grievances.

1999 N. Haugerud Jailhouse Stories 123 After nearly an hour and a half of questioning I'd given up on getting anything out of Pee Wee, so I stood up ready to close the book on this part of the investigation.

2012 USA Today (Nexis) 21 Sept. 3 a A scathing internal Justice Department report on a botched gun-trafficking investigation..is not likely to close the book on the scandal.

i. colloquial. to speak (also talk) like a book: (a) to speak elegantly; to use literary or pedantic language in conversation; (b) to speak knowledgeably and accurately, with full or precise information.

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1714 J. Ozell tr. Molière Don John i. in tr. Molière Wks. VI. 10 Body o' me, how you talk? One would think you had learn't this by Heart; you speak like a Book.

1796 J. Beresford tr. Comtesse de Genlis Knights of Swan I. xi. 75 You must know that Colin, who has travelled so much, speaks like a book.

1829 Massachusetts Spy 28 Jan. You talk like a book, Mr. Bond.

1833 J. Neal Down-easters 26 An educated and travelled Yankee..talking like a book, even to his washerwoman.

1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel II. vii. xxi. 281 ‘If you can contrive to affect to be angry with him for his extravagance, it will do good.’ ‘You speak like a book, and I'll try my best.’

1940 H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood i. i. 25 Don't you talk like a book, Mr. Jimmy... Don't you go using long words.

1960 Sunday Times 27 Nov. 11 ‘Speaks Welsh like a book, the professor’—and, what's more, he also writes it like a book though he learnt it late in life.

2006 M. French In Name of Friendship iv. 47 Oh, the way she talks, like a book, she talks in goddamned paragraphs!

j. to take a leaf out of a person's book: to base one's conduct on what a person does; to follow a person's example.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (intransitive)] > follow an example

borrow?c1225

to walk in (or tread) a person's stepsa1240

to take example from (also by, at, of)c1405

to dance to or after (a person's) pipe, whistle1546

patrizate1623

patrizizea1642

to follow suit1747

to take a leaf out of a person's book1809

pattern1820

1746 R. Seagrave True Protestant 18 Ecclesiastics..shun the Force of the Text, and evade all its Prohibition, by a Leaf out of the Pope's Book; who, with all his magnificent Titles, stiles himself also the Servant of Servants.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. vii. ii. 37 I took a leaf out of their book.

1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. ii. 32 It is a great pity that some of our instructors in more important matters..will not take a leaf out of the same book.

1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. vii. 106 I'll take a leaf out of her book.

1916 D. Haig Diary 7 Oct. in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 239 It is interesting to see that the French have taken a leaf out of our tactical book!

2007 Daily Tel. 8 Aug. 11/4 Parents thought British hotels should take a leaf out of the American book and allow up to five in a family room.

k. off the books.

(a) to take (also strike, etc.) off the books: to remove from a register of members, clients, etc. Cf. on (also upon) the books at Phrases 2g.

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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (intransitive)] > avoid > withdraw (from a task or undertaking) > from a group, game, or competition

to take (also strike, etc.) off the books1755

scratch1866

to stand down1874

to drop out1883

1755 Gentleman's & London Mag. Oct. 505/2 It has likewise been ordered, that all out-pensioners belonging to Chelsea hospital..do, on pain of being struck off the books, personally appear.

1795 T. Swift Prison Pindarics 16 When my son came to live in College I found it convenient to live with him in his apartments, and continued to hold possession of them for a long time after his name was taken off the books, conceiving I had a legal title to the same.

1864 Manch. Guardian 25 Oct. 5/3 Considerable dissatisfaction was felt at the request to strike them off the books.

a1941 B. L. Coombes War Diary of Welsh Miner in B. Jones & C. Williams With Dust still in his Throat (1999) 172 They knocked him off the books and all the help he could get was one and eightpence a week.

2008 G. Dunford Big Trip 126/1 Many..IT professionals fund their travels by registering with temp agencies... You can take your name off the books to go travelling and then sign back on when you're ready to return.

(b) Originally U.S. Esp. with reference to work: without proper documentation or registration, so as to evade taxes or regulations. Also attributive: not declared for tax or accounting purposes; unacknowledged, unofficial, illicit.

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1971 Newsday (N.Y.) 21 Dec. 19 a/1 He said..he will ‘go on welfare and work “off the books” someplace’.

1975 Texas Monthly Dec. 124 Camilo Fabrega, regional vice-president..accuses them of scheming to ‘generate an “off the books” source of funds for use by Braniff management’.

1980 E. Ginzberg Employing Unemployed xi. 191 A related problem in the work-income arena is posed by the increasing amount of income that people earn from off-the-books, illicit and illegal sources.

2001 R. Russo Empire Falls (2002) 35 It's against the law... Mrs. Whiting would have a cow if she thought I was doing anything off the books.

2004 U.S. News & World Rep. 21 June 66/1 Taguba wrongly blamed the brigade for holding off-the-books ‘ghost’ prisoners.

l. to bring to book: to call to account (chiefly figurative).

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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > investigate, examine [verb (transitive)]

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vesteyea1425

to have in waitc1440

perpend1447

to bring witnessc1475

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investigate?1520

recounta1530

to call into (also in) question1534

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to look into ——1561

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pierce1640

shrive1647

in-looka1649

probe1649

incern1656

quaeritate1657

inquisite1674

reconnoitre1740

explore1774

to bring to book1786

look-see1867

scrutate1882

to shake down1915

sleuth1939

screen1942

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > make accusation [phrase] > call to account

to call to account1434

to call into (also in) question1534

to bring to book1786

1786 Town & Country Mag. Mar. 122/2 She had a relation in the law, who, it is more than probable, entertained a sneaking liking for her; old Square Toes was brought to book.

1799 I. Espinasse Rep. Cases Nisi Prius II. 624 I shall bring him to book, and have him struck off the roll.

1804 Sporting Mag. 23 265/2 'Tis not my business to examine your accounts, Sir—but should I bring you to book..there is something in that sly countenance that tells me you have sometimes staked your credit at too great a venture.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. xv. 131 I'll bring this young man to book.

1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. v. 104 We'll bring Sherborne to book.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 215/1 By means of these figures we bring the matter, as it were, to book, and eliminate tangible results.

1962 Times 6 Apr. 20/3 The housebreakers and hoodlums who plagued the city..were checked by the ‘reasonable force’ which had brought their kind to book in Sheffield.

2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 30 Jan. 36/2 Last year, the city's 30-odd full-time environmental wardens brought 700 people to book for trashing the streets.

m. to read (also know) like a book: to know very well, understand perfectly. Hence (with other verbs) like a book: without hesitation or need for further reflection; easily (obsolete).

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1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. xxvi. 444 I can..read you off, like a book.

1839 C. F. Briggs Adventures Harry Franco I. xi. 73 ‘Know him like a book,’ replied Mr. Lummucks.

1841 Congress. Globe 13 Feb. 148/1 Democrats, he knew, would vote for it [sc. the Pre-emption bill] like a book.

1843 Cleave's Penny Gaz. 15 July Jim made 'em go like a book; every thing worked right.

1844 T. C. Haliburton Attaché 2nd Ser. II. 176 Let a man or woman come and talk to me..and I'll tell you all about 'em right off as easy as big print. I can read 'em like a book.

1902 ‘E. Lyall’ Hinderers ix We ordinary mortals are at the mercy of you artists... You read us like books.

1933 P. G. Wodehouse Mulliner Nights 101 That terrible old woman saw through my subterfuge last night. She read me like a book.

1951 J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye xi. 92 I knew her like a book. I really did. I mean, besides checkers, she was quite fond of all athletic sports.

1999 Washington Post 7 Nov. a26/1 An experienced investigator can often walk through a field of shredded metal and broken bodies and read it like a book.

n. to suit a person's book: to be convenient or agreeable to a person; to be in line with his or her plans.Originally a bookmaker's phrase: see sense 11.

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the world > action or operation > advantage > convenience > be convenient [verb (intransitive)]

to suit a person's book1827

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > be courteous [verb (intransitive)] > be agreeable

to make good visagec1386

to make (rarely bear) fair weatherc1400

to do (also make, play) the agreeable1825

to suit a person's book1827

1827 Bell's Life in London 16 Sept. It would be unjust to throw out an imputation upon any sporting event, without sufficient evidence... Anonymous assertion will not suit our book.

1851 R. I. Murchison Let. 14 Apr. in Lady Prestwich Life Sir J. Prestwich (1899) 83 Would it suit your book to make a run of a day or two to the other side of the Weald?

1852 F. E. Smedley Lewis Arundel vi By which time he expects to be so hard up that he must marry somebody, and as there will be plenty of the needful she will suit his book as well as any other.

1928 Britain's Industr. Future (Liberal Industr. Inq.) 420 The actual results have probably been variable in any given year..to suit the book of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being.

1955 Times 30 Aug. 6/1 Plainly the strikes suit the Communists' book.

2009 F. McLynn Marcus Aurelius 425 Commodus was..venal and would sell anything if the price was right, even allowing murder as part of the transaction if it suited his book.

o. to judge a book by its cover and variants: to make assumptions about someone or something based on appearance or on superficial characteristics; to take something at face value. Chiefly in negative contexts, as you can't judge a book by its cover, don't judge a book by its cover.

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1708 E. Arwaker Truth in Fiction Pref. p.ii As a Man is not to be judg'd of by his Out-side, any more than a Book by its Title-Page; so Fables are not to be valu'd only as insipid Tales, composed to please Children.]

1869 Radical Apr. 312 To judge the great actors in history by their formal conceptions is to judge a book by its binding.

1872 Building News 16 Feb. 141/3 In reply to ‘Plumber’ I beg to remind him of an old adage, ‘Never judge a book by its cover.’

1893 N. Wales Chron. 8 Apr. 3/7 Judging by the appearance of the players, I really thought that the Bangor team would fare badly. But we mustn't judge the book by the cover.

1897 N.Y. Times 11 Dec. (Saturday Review section) 1/1 The old admonition ‘do not judge a book by its binding’ is losing its force.

1918 Simmons' Spice Mill Sept. 1156/1 I have learned not to judge a book by its cover entirely when it comes to a store front.

1964 J. Baldwin Blues for Mister Charlie iii. 99 Mr. Evans don't look like that kind of man. You sure can't tell a book by its cover.

1995 C. Bateman Cycle of Violence xi. 171 ‘I don't like the look of you.’ ‘Don't judge a book by its cover,’ Callaghan said, reappearing at the door.

1996 S. Jenkins Cheese Primer 19 Artisanal cheeses are usually much scruffier on the outside than factory-made ones... Choosing a cheese is one of the few times you should judge a book by its cover.

2011 S. Izard Girl in Kitchen iv. 133 I couldn't believe something so gnarly looking could taste so good. Just goes to show, you can't judge a book by its cover.

p. colloquial. in the book(s): recorded, in existence. Frequently in every —— in the book.

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1897 B. Hall Fish Tails xvii. 173 The oldest rule in the book says that you never know what luck you are going to have.

1921 Locomotive Engineers Jrnl. Feb. 117/1 I've stood on the deck and battled away Like a major with slash bar and hook, To hold up some mill that was having a chill, Yes, tried every trick in the book.

1957 J. Kerouac On the Road ii. vi. 148 That night Marylou took everything [i.e. every drink] in the books.

1959 Listener 31 Dec. 1172/3 Every human evil in the book was thrown at us—cancer, paralysis, famine, gas-chambers.

2011 New Yorker 21 Nov. 72/3 The plants need staking, propping, intensive care. They are prone to every tomato disease in the book.

q. to write the book (on): to be the original expert or authority (on something); to set the standard.

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1907 G. Ade Slim Princess v. 52 ‘You have traveled a great deal?’ ‘Me and Baedeker and Cook wrote it.’]

1915 G. Bronson-Howard God's Man 128 Jealousy? She wrote the book.

1963 Barron's National Business & Finance Weekly 8 July 3/2 IBM may have written the book on salesmanship.

1989 D. Hagberg Without Honor 187 McGarvey figured the man could write the book on loneliness.

1998 Managed Healthcare Nov. 26 Every day they write the book. Because they work with such a broad array of clients, GeoAccess often reinvents itself.

2013 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 17 Feb. 56 The band wrote the book on how not to make it in the music business.

r. for the book(s): that deserves recording for posterity; record-breaking, notable, or remarkable; notorious.Cf. a turn-up for the book(s) at turn-up n. 3b, one for the books at one adj., n., and pron. Phrases 4d.

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1924 N.Y. Times 27 Apr. s2/7 (heading) Stevick, club champion.., yesterday accomplished a golf feat for the book.

1937 Washington Post 22 Aug. x. 5/2 Little did Miss Mable B. Kellogg, a local angler, realize the part she was to play in making an oddity for the books.

1942 Chicago Defender 28 Feb. 5/4 It started out a surprise pre-natal but the party..turned out to be a celebration for the books.

1944 S. R. Harris Diary 20 Nov. in B-29s over Japan, 1944–5 (2011) 54 My quarters are something for the books. A 20 x 20 wall tent, screened and floored with porches on two sides and located..at the edge of coral cliffs.

1984 M. Piñero Eulogy for Small Time Thief ii. i, in Sun always shines for Cool 114 Yeah, they wanna be farmers, ain't that something for the book?

1998 N.Y. Times 12 Sept. a10 (heading) For the Congress, the Capital and the Whole Nation, a Day for the Books... The day..was extraordinary,..as the House finished it's furiously partisan face-off on the question of impeaching the President.

s. in a person's book: in a person's opinion, as a person sees the matter. Frequently in in my book, in anyone's (also anybody's) book.

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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > personal opinion > [adverb]

in my (also his, their, etc.) sense1591

in a person's regard1598

according to one's lights (also light)1645

in a person's book1934

1934 N.Y. Times 7 May 22/1 It went for only two bases because of a ground rule, but it was a home run in anybody's book.

1942 Billboard 17 Jan. 43/2 Gee!..This manager is okay in my book. He has been furnishing shade, smokes, cold drinks, sandwiches and an electric fan for us players all afternoon.

1966 S. B. Jackman Davidson Affair ii. 13 In his book the function of television was to edify, not to entertain.

1989 Busselton-Margaret (W. Austral.) Times 18 Aug. 40/3 An impressive list in anyone's book.

1992 Guardian 28 Mar. (Weekend Suppl.) 10/2 In George's book, a drink, a few lines, a bit of puff is okay but those E's and stuff like acid turns people into wrong 'uns.

2006 G. Malkani Londonstani xxiv. 296 Remember, it was my Porsche you first rode in. In my book that means you owe me.

Compounds

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a. General attributive.

book-birth n.

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1597 J. Gerard Herball To Rdr. sig. B3^v This bookebirth thus brought foorth by Gerard.

1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 542 The author made one great effort, and died in book-birth—his offspring sharing often the doom of its unhappy parent.

1969 V. Nabokov Ada ii. ii. 342 The brilliant mirages which had risen before him when he felt the first pangs of book-birth on Cordula's terrace..were now fading under the action of prudence.

2007 A. Gibson What is Lit.? xii. 461 Chapter 10 addressed the case of the publisher as Romantic narcissist that suppressed a book-birth.

book box n.

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society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun]

book hoardOE

book box1689

1584 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 19 A hanging box to putt in Bookes wth locke and kye ijs. vjd.]

1689 R. Hooke Diary 6 Mar. in R. T. Gunther Early Sci. Oxf. (1935) X. 103 Paid Kettle for book box 4s.

1843 J. T. J. Hewlett College Life III. xxix. 73 He kept a supply of worms, maggots, and paste, in his book-box, and every half-holiday slipped out, and..robbed the New River of some of its inhabitants.

1931 Rotarian Mar. 1/2 (advt.) Just mail the coupon and the complete five volumes in the specially designed book-box will be shipped to you.

2005 Crafts Beautiful Feb. 30/2 Apply vintage photo distress ink to the outer surface of the book box and use a tissue to remove the excess.

book collection n.

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1731 T. Apperley Observ. in Physick 104 Old Authors, Scholastic Ideas and Common-place Book Collections.

1881 Academy 20 Aug. 139/2 His omnivorous taste for reading had led him frequently in late years to the British Museum, the Record Office, and the Athenaeum Library, after exhausting the book collections of Edinburgh.

1949 R. D. Matthews & M. Akrawi Educ. in Arab Countries ix. 154 The book collection is a mixture of old textbooks, courses of study, books on teaching method, and some travel books.

2012 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 26 Jan. d1/1 His book collection is restricted to titles with black, gray or white bindings, and stacked, jacketless, in neat horizontal rows.

book contract n.

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1878 Calif. Legal Rec. 24 Aug. Index 461/1 The Lights and Shades of a Book Contract.

1940 D. Thomas Let. 20 June (1987) 457 Do try to speed the agents on the new book contract so that I can have some money. It's getting harder to live here.

2002 Vanity Fair June 218/2 The six-figure book contracts.

book cover n.

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society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > cover

forel1393

surpelc1440

covering1459

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lid1585

cover1599

binding1648

book cover1649

case1750

album cover1839

bookcase1885

1649 C. Hoole Easie Entrance Lat. Tongue 271 A book-cover, Opérculum libri.

1796 J. Guy Misc. Sel. I. 63 The wood..will slit so thin that it makes band-boxes, hat-cases, and even book-covers.

1843 E. A. Poe Purloined Let. in Gift 1845 48 We also measured the thickness of every book-cover.

1864 A. Jameson et al. Hist. Our Lord I. 22 The sculptured tablets applied as book-covers to the Sacred Volumes.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 265/2 Drawn on, said of a book cover which is attached by gluing down the back; if the end-papers are pasted down it is said to be drawn on solid.

2005 Financial Times (Nexis) 13 Sept. 10 A committee of 20 people could be involved in deciding the book cover, says Julian Humphries, art director for the more literary press books division of HarperCollins.

book critic n.

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1759 tr. P. de Coste in C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (ed. 7) I. Pref. to French ed. sig. A7^v Here I must intreat our Book-Criticks to remember, that Montaigne having put a Sense quite new upon several Passages.., I was therefore obliged to transplant Montaigne's Ideas into my Translation.

1857 T. B. Aldrich Daisy's Necklace 18 Barry is fond of wine—but that's a failing not peculiar to genius, and not confined to book-critics.

1919 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 18 480 The author is..a book critic, and has a large acquaintance with the current literature and speech of England and America.

2010 New Yorker 25 Jan. 68/3 ‘This is not a woe-is-me memoir of the sort so much in fashion these days,’ the book critic of the Washington Post wrote recently in an admiring review.

book desk n.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > desk > [noun]

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bureau1698

secretary1803

toys1816

secretaire1818

consulting-desk1823

slope1833

box-desk1860

roll-top1884

type-desk1901

partners' desk1925

partners' pedestal desk1930

console1944

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 383 The most difficult piece of wood work..was a Book-desk.

1860 N.Y. Herald 23 Apr. 2/3 Woodruff..bought the arsenic in a small vial; I put the vial in Mr. Ramsey's bookdesk.

2007 New Yorker 23 Apr. 48/1 I try to make conversation with the officer at the ‘book desk’ where you can leave reading material for the prisoner you're visiting; he excludes whatever he deems ‘inappropriate’.

book fair n. [after German Buchmesse (18th cent. or earlier)]

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > [noun] > sale of specific articles

woodsale1479

port-salea1513

boutisalea1627

book sale1797

book fair1798

sight1940

1798 Monthly Mag. Suppl. No. 33, 15 July 513/1 The great diversity of critical essays on language, which continually appear on the Leipzig book-fairs.

1863 W. Waterston Cycl. Commerce at Book Two great book-fairs..held annually at Easter and Michaelmas.

1969 ‘A. Cade’ Turn up Stone i. 10 Michael's previous forays overseas had been limited to..an annual pilgrimage to the Frankfurt Book Fair.

2002 N. Basbanes Among Gently Mad ii. 39 Book fairs run the gamut in size, from modest gatherings of thirty or forty dealers..to larger, more elaborate undertakings that often feature more than two hundred of the most prominent booksellers.

book jacket n.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > cover > wrapper or loose cover

wrapper1806

fall1837

book wrapper1844

jacket1850

book jacket1859

chemise1893

dust cover1902

book folder1925

dust jacket1928

dust-wrapper1932

1859 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 25 Feb. 214/1 As to clothing, I think that I may say for book jackets ‘there it nothing like leather,’ though both vellum and calico are useful agents.

1928 Publishers' Weekly 9 June 2359 Several specimens of modern trade book jackets.

2002 Daily Tel. 25 Sept. 22/4 This genre boils everything down to the picture on the book jacket: lurve in bodices and breeches.

book launch n.

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1964 Guardian 25 Aug. 4 (headline) Book-launch at the Sycamore.

2000 J. Pemberton Forever & Ever Amen 4 If someone's stupid enough to publish the damn thing then there's..book launches, readings and other such nonsense. Knowing my luck, I say, it'll become a bestseller.

book length n. and adj.

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society > communication > book > [adjective] > of the form or length of book

book form1622

book length1913

1829 Mechanic's Free Press 28 Nov. 1/1 As we write for a newspaper publication, we shall not swell our tale to a book length.

1913 Indianapolis Star 22 Nov. 2/5 (advt.) A radical overturning of old theories in magazine making. A complete book-length novel takes the place of the serial story.

1953 Encounter Nov. 49/1 Vigolo..has prefaced his edition with a book-length essay.

1988 R. Gibbons in R. Poirier Raritan Reading (1990) 132 Imagine writing a work of book length, working away on a digitized version of it.

2011 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Oct. 33/1 The Dutch government set up a Foundation for Literature, granting novelists a significant sum for each book-length project.

booklist n.

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society > communication > book > book list > [noun]

booklist1808

handlist1848

1808 Agric. Mag. Sept. 163 Mr. Young deserves no reprehension and gains no discredit from his recommendation of Bartlet's book..but to be candid, this is more than can be said..with respect to the whole book list in his Farmer's Kalendar.

1937 Discovery June 192/2 (heading) A Scientific and Technical Book List.

2008 P. E. Faasse In Splendid Isolation ii. 31 The Bos Atlas is still a standard item on every Dutch secondary school booklist today.

book-load n.

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1858 Harper's Mag. Aug. 417 What shall we say of..the halls of the Imperial library?..The familiar low sounds creep on your ear..the twirl of the little windlass as it brings down its book-loads from the vast regions above.

1870 Appleton's Jrnl. 31 Dec. 791/1 When an author has nearly finished his story, and finds a whole book-load of hale, hearty characters left on his hands, these little thunderstrokes of disease or disaster simplify matters wonderfully.

1907 Daily Chron. 19 Dec. 3/5 The heroine, who is the best of the book-load.

2009 T. Wright How to be Brilliant Teacher iv. 71 This is the pebble-dash approach to teaching. It has helped me to fail a number of examinations, though I had book-loads of notes.

book mania n.

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society > communication > book > bibliophily or bibliomania > [noun]

bibliomania1734

book mania1807

book collecting1809

bibliomanism1820

bibliophilism1824

book-fancying1858

bibliophily1877

bibliomanianism-

1807 Director 24 Jan. 82 The book-mania (I hear the frozen-hearted stoic exclaim) is now violently raging.

1900 Anglo-Saxon Rev. June 108 Sufferers from acute book-mania may be seen any morning haunting the barrows of the literary costers.

2007 Appeal-Democrat (Marysville–Yuba City, Calif.) 22 July 1/1 It's all about Harry Potter: Worldwide book mania reaches kids in Y-S [sc. Yuba Sutter, Calif.].

book manufacture n.

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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > [noun]

booking1626

book-building1772

book manufacture1809

bookmaking1824

bibliopoesy1832

bibliogony1835

bookcraft1840

1809 Ann. Med. Rev. & Reg. 1808 133 At the same time, we are bound to express our most decided disapprobation of this sort of book-manufacture.

1900 F. E. Murray Bibliogr. A. Dobson i. §ii. 37 This volume..marks an epoch in the ‘large paper craze.’ The decadence of these cumbersome and useless specimens of book ‘manufacture’ may be roughly dated from this time.

2000 Libr. & Culture 35 471 Only the introductory essay..attempts to make any connection between techniques of book manufacture and the transmission of the Biblical text.

book market n.

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society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in books > market for books

book market1803

1803 Crit. Rev. 39 App. 547 The book-market is at present very dull, and scarcely suffices to keep alive the enterprises which are essential to public instruction.

1926 N.Y. World Mag. May 5 1/1 ‘Opposite editorial’ page in The World has become one of the great book markets in the city.

2006 C. Anderson Long Tail vi. 87 The selection..tends to be pretty random, reflecting the taste of the proprietor and the luck of the catch rather than any comprehensive slice of the book market.

book merchant n.

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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets

bookmonger1275

stationer1311

bookseller?c1475

bibliopolist1541

book merchant1653

newsboy1728

book hawker1737

bibliopole1775

newsman1775

news-vender1796

newsagent1811

news-vendor1823

newspaper vendor1830

newspaper seller1837

newspaper boy1843

newsgirl1859

newsie1875

paperboy1876

1653 J. Howell German Diet sig. D2^v Book-Merchants drive a greater Trade in our Marts then any wher else.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. i. ii. 15 Book-Merchants..undoubtedly receive no small Advantage from a right Improvement of a learned Scuffle.

1897 Author 1 Feb. 217/1 Publishers and wholesale book merchants of Paternoster-row.

1999 Billboard 27 Sept. 31/1 The book merchants all opened combo stores in the city, with the Barnes & Noble store count now at four in Manhattan and Borders at two.

bookmonger n. [attested earliest as a surname]

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets

bookmonger1275

stationer1311

bookseller?c1475

bibliopolist1541

book merchant1653

newsboy1728

book hawker1737

bibliopole1775

newsman1775

news-vender1796

newsagent1811

news-vendor1823

newspaper vendor1830

newspaper seller1837

newspaper boy1843

newsgirl1859

newsie1875

paperboy1876

1275 in G. Fransson Middle Eng. Surnames (1935) 75 (MED) Hugo Bucmonger.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Worc. 168 He was a great Book-monger.

1919 C. S. Lewis Let. 26 Jan. (2004) I. 426 My regular book-monger keeps his second-hand stock downstairs in a 12th century crypt.

2010 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 1 Oct. pa 22 This motley crew of bookmongers seems largely unfazed by the web or digital reading devices.

bookmongery n. rare

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1876 J. S. Blackie Lang. & Lit. Sc. Highlands ii. 68 These days of widespread prose and bookmongery.

1917 Nature 3 May 196/1 When secondary education in India was mainly bookmongery.

book ownership n.

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1880 J. L. Warren Guide Study Book-plates 7 The next chapter will be employed in showing..the many various phrases by which book-ownership can be asserted and set on record.

1920 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 16 June 6/2 Great men of affairs are often astonishingly indifferent to book ownership.

2009 A. R. Knight in C. Bold Oxf. Hist. Pop. Print Culture VI. xxi. 440 Income figures and book prices only paint a partial picture of potential book ownership.

book package n.

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1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. x in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 186/1 One of those Book-packages, which the Stiltschweigen'sche Buchhandlung is in the habit of importing from England.

1974 Pop. Sci. Oct. 21/4 As part of your introductory book package you may, if you wish, take the lavishly illustrated, matched volumes, Tank, Fighter, and Artillery, which sell for $27.85 retail.

2011 J. C. Oates Widow's Story iii. xliii. 199 Most dreaded..is that particularly nasty sub-species of ridged cardboard book-package in which a few publishers persist in sending books, bound with metal staplers thick as spikes.

book prayer n.

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1603 in J. Greenwood Answere Giffords Def. (new ed.) To Rdr. sig. Aij Book prayers, etc. are an invention off man, and a vayne worship off God.

1899 Friend 24 Dec. 177/2 The transition now progressing from spirit-praise, spirit-praying, and spirit-preaching, to book-hymns, book-prayers, and book or manuscript or memorized preaching..is a stride towards ritualism and priestcraft.

1920 C. Evans My Neighbors ii. 37 He cried against the heathenism of the Church, the wickedness of Church tithes, and against ungodly book-prayers and short sermons.

2003 L. F. Winner Mudhouse Sabbath (2007) 55 Jewish prayer is essentially book prayer, liturgical prayer.

book preservation n.

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1880 J. L. Warren Guide Study Book-plates 97 The ex-libris is the mature act of book-preservation, and to engrave thereon some fulmination against the borrower, is a virtuous and commendable proceeding.

1913 T. W. Koch Libr. Assistant's Man. vii. 52 Good ventilation is a great aid to book preservation.

2008 Libr. & Cultural Rec. 43 405 [Manoel da] Maya made innovative improvements in book preservation.

book prophecy n.

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [noun] > a prediction or prophecy > contained in a book

oracle1596

book prophecy1664

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity ii. viii. 385 The third and last of these latter Synchronalls of the Book-Prophecy is the Virgin-Company, the sealed Souldiers of the Lamb upon Mount Sion, whose Description is admirable and mysterious.

a1813 W. Huntington in Gospel Mag. (1853) Sept. 417 Some learned men divide the book of the Revelation into two parts, viz. the church and the book prophecy.

1910 J. C. Hughes tr. R. Kittel Sci. Stud. Old Test. ii. 123 Prophecy passed from active speech into a literary phenomenon, i.e. into book prophecy.

2008 D. H. Shantz Between Sardis & Philadelphia vi. 158 The first book, or ‘Church Prophecy,’ consisted of the seven letters to the seven churches in Asia Minor in chapters 2 and 3. The second book, or the ‘Book Prophecy,’ followed in chapters 4 through 22.

book quarrel n.

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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > quarrel in printed or spoken words

book-war1610

book quarrel1627

war of words1981

1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 102 Multiplying vnnecessary booke-quarrels.

1895 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 19 Feb. 4/3 The reading public have long ago concluded..that this book-quarrel is the result of the rivalry of the competing book houses.

1995 E. M. Yoder Joe Alsop's Cold War xi. 161 Joe wrote that he had no intention of ‘breaking up’ his library. By April 1958..echoes of the book quarrel lingered.

bookrack n.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > bookcase

libraryc1374

deska1552

bookpress1611

bookcase1698

bookstand1743

bookrack1809

book unit1901

1809 in Suppl. to 9th Rep. Commissioners Public Offices Ireland (Parl. Papers X) (1810) App. (A.) No. 9. p. cxv It only remains for me..to send you the key of my Office, in which will be found in the book rack my correspondent and cash books for the last two years.

1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 543/1 I had made up my mind to nothing but a book-rack.

2005 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 16 Jan. ii. 6/4 Oscar balanced himself on the bicycle's rear bookrack, his gym bag strapped to his back.

book review n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > review or critique > [noun] > book-review

recension1757

reviewal1798

book review1837

book notice1868

1837 Lit. Gaz. 7 Jan. 11/1 For once we will make a book-review, and a dramatic critique, one article.

1904 W. James Mem. & Stud. (1911) iv. 66 His contributions to literature were all anonymous, book-reviews chiefly.

2000 Yahoo! Internet Life Mar. 144/2 From shiatsu to water birth, the site delivers a mother lode of articles, book reviews, FAQs, and links.

book rest n.

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society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > book-rest

reading desk1637

book rest1642

reading stand1730

reading table1749

book board1775

1642 Inventory 28 Oct. in W. H. Browne Arch. Maryland (1887) IV. 97 A book-rest.

1866 J. Purchas & F. G. Lee Directorium Anglicanum (ed. 3) 3 The Service Book placed on the bookrest.

1972 P. White Let. 19 Mar. (1994) xi. 395 He brought me a book-rest for using in the bath.

2005 K. Mosse Labyrinth lxviii. 566 Marie-Cécile was sitting at the table with the Book of Numbers open on a black padded book rest in front of her.

book rights n.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > printing > publishing > [noun] > publishing rights

privilege1513

copyright1735

fair use1869

book rights1880

release1904

magazine rights1909

fair dealing1916

permission1945

1880 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 555/1 Book-rights, like patent-rights, are limited, and expire in all countries after the lapse of specified though variable periods.

1915 J. Joyce Let. 1 Apr. (1966) II. 338 That [agreement] for my novel should be conditional on Mr Grant Richards' refusal of the book rights.

1993 Empire Aug. 61/1 Associate producer..[is] generally the most confusing and possibly least deserved..of all producer's credits. Normally bestowed on actors, writers, or people who own book rights.

bookroom n.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > library or collection of books > [noun] > room containing books

libraryc1374

study1514

bookroom1771

bookstack1879

stack-room-

1771 J. Wesley Let. 28 Oct. (1931) V. 285 Lend Mrs. Dawson the Appeals: take them from the book-room, and present them to her in my name.

1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant III. viii. 212 Away from his own beloved bookroom and laboratory.

2002 Church Times 22 Nov. 32/3 The old apple-room is now the bookroom... My book-packed farmhouse cannot complain.

book sale n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > [noun] > sale of specific articles

woodsale1479

port-salea1513

boutisalea1627

book sale1797

book fair1798

sight1940

1797 W. B. Stevens Jrnl. 11 Apr. (1965) v. 421 To Ashby for a book sale.

1797 T. J. Mathias Pursuits Lit.: Pt. IV (ed. 2) 13 The Reverend..Doctor Gosset is President at all Booksales in the metropolis. He certainly is a scholar.

1952 R. Campbell Lorca 7 Sincerity is so often subordinated to book-sales.

1998 High Country News 6 July 2/2 Paonia Library volunteers are sorting thousands of used books into fiction, non-fiction and Harlequins in preparation for the annual book sale.

book skill n.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [noun] > book-learning, letters

craftOE

book loreOE

lettersa1250

letter1340

lettrurec1400

literaturec1450

reading?1548

book learning1553

book skill1553

book knowledge1613

bookcrafta1637

scholarship1644

clerkship1648

letter-learning1668

bookhood1772

clerk-learning1865

literacy1880

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique i. f. 21 I haue knowne diuerse that by familiar talkyng, & moutyng together haue comme to right good learning without any great booke skil, or muche beating of their braine by any close studie.

a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) viii. i. 350 Some who may arrive at that Book-skill and learning in Divine Mysteries.

1997 H. L. C. Tristram Medieval Insular Lit. between Oral & Written 186 This situation certainly points to the growing importance of book-skills in politics, represented by the law-book..gradually replacing the memory of the orally trained lawspeakers.

bookstall n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trading place > stall or booth > [noun] > for sale of other specific goods

bookstand1743

bookstall1753

newsstand1867

paper kiosk1935

1753 ‘O. Oak’ Appeal with Due Submission addressed to Cæsar 19 Query, whether the Gleaning of every Three-penny Book-stall and Pamphlet shop in Moorfields..have not been eagerly rumaged and ransack'd?

1801 R. Bloomfield Farmer's Boy p. ix I one day happened at a Book-stall to see a small dictionary.

1913 ‘A. R. Hope’ Half & Half Trag. 70 I had something to get at the railway bookstall.

1999 Sphaera No. 10. 8/4 A mousemat facsimile of the Einstein Blackboard has been a best-selling item on the Museum bookstall for several years now.

bookstock n.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > library or collection of books > [noun]

library13..

Biblec1384

biblet1388

bibliothèque1549

bibliothecary1570

study1616

bookstock1796

bookery1798

1796 Methodist Monitor 1 142 The sale of the Methodist books is professedly for charitable purposes. The book stock was left to the connexion at large to help to spread the gospel.

1896 Amer. Stationer 30 July 164/3 This store is the oldest book and stationery store in the city, and its book stock is probably one of the largest in the West.

1957 BBC Handbk. 102 At the Monitoring Service Centre the bookstock's accent is on politics and biography.

1994 Queen's Q. Fall 764 During his 19 years as chief librarian, the bookstock grew from just over 200,000 to well over half a million.

book table n.

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society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > book table

book table1809

1809 ‘Miss Byron’ Celia (ed. 3) I. v. 62 The sprightly emblem of modern information fled to a book-table, and presently returned with about a dozen small volumes.

1829 M. Hare Let. 12 Sept. in A. J. C. Hare Memorials Quiet Life (1872) I. vi. 275 I ordered a book table according to my own fancy, having two shelves above, a bureau part, and shelves below, with a cupboard at each end.

1905 Daily Chron. 23 May 4/6 A lovely inlaid book-table.

2004 S. Shapiro Five Men who broke my Heart i. 10 The black moiré couches, laced with lime and purple satin pillows, were surrounded by antique book tables and torch lamps.

book title n.

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society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > title

fore-writ1570

title1651

eyes and (also or) no eyes1794

book title1802

1802 Monthly Mag. Suppl. No., 20 Jan. 604/1 Many a critical Achilles, who has fought his way through the crowds of the Easter Fair, might be tempted, at the light of many resuscitated book-titles, to exclaim with the fon of Thetis..Ye mighty Gods [etc.].

1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. iv. 230 Accurate transcripts of book-titles.

1934 D. Hammett Thin Man xxix. 228 He did not remember having seen a book called The Grand Manner, but he was not a man you would expect to memorize book titles.

2002 Independent on Sunday 26 May (LifeEtc. section) 17/7 It's a safe bet that any book title containing the word ‘sex’, with or without accompanying syllables, is going to be dry and gritty going.

book trade n.

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society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in books

book trade1699

1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. at Book The Book-Trade, or Trade of Books, Librairie, Commerce de Livres.

1863 W. Waterston Cycl. Commerce at Book The modern book-trade dates from the discovery of the art of printing.

1930 Publishers' Weekly 5 Apr. 1892/1 The increasing attention that the book-trade is giving to the art of book-making.

2011 Private Eye 4 Mar. 27/2 A time in March when the book trade badly needs an artificial boost.

book unit n.

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society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > bookcase

libraryc1374

deska1552

bookpress1611

bookcase1698

bookstand1743

bookrack1809

book unit1901

1901 Anaconda (Montana) Standard 7 Apr. 11/2 (advt.) We have just received another consignment of these Globe-Wernicke filing cabinets both in units and stationary cases, and..the book units in all sizes.

1988 Financial Times 21 May (Weekend Suppl.) p. vii/7 (advt.) Large & varied stocks of office furniture inc. filing cabinets..book units, chairs, reinforced tables etc.

book-war n.

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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > quarrel in printed or spoken words

book-war1610

book quarrel1627

war of words1981

1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr Pref. sig. B2 To draw them to an aunswere, and so continue a Booke-warre.

1670 I. Walton Life of Hooker 33 Mr. Hooker became at last, but most unwillingly, to be engaged in a book-war.

1896 Public-School Jrnl. Jan. 268/1 All of the text-book publishing houses have joined in an agreement to..abandon those methods that have caused so much scandal during the late disreputable book-war.

1998 E. Christiansen in Dudo of St-Quentin Hist. Normans 198 One Catillus was named as Rollo's father... The identity of this patently fictional character was contested in a book-war of four centuries.

book worship n.

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1595 F. Johnson Treat. Ministery Church 74 Our..vse of the Censures etc. is not according to the inventions, book worship, canons, or constitutions of any men whatsoever.

1894 Sat. Rev. 19 May 532/1 The mass of so-called book-lovers' literature..has grown out of the modern fashion of book-worship—a worship which, it is to be feared.., is apt to be somewhat perfunctory and superficial.

1996 R. C. Sethi Bride wore Red (1997) 14 You are not entirely unfamiliar with this concept of book worship, as your Protestant ancestors risked persecution just to read the Bible.

book wrapper n.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > cover > wrapper or loose cover

wrapper1806

fall1837

book wrapper1844

jacket1850

book jacket1859

chemise1893

dust cover1902

book folder1925

dust jacket1928

dust-wrapper1932

1844 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 8 June 368/2 We see these effects strikingly illustrated in book wrappers. Black letter-press is applied indiscriminately to red, blue, lilac, green, and yellow covers.

1932 Book-Collector's Q. Apr. 10 The book-wrapper is relatively and absolutely an upstart, and a good number of people have not yet decided whether they wish to encourage it or not.

2010 R. J. A. Talbert Rome's World App. 6. 196 The sheet that he saw formed part of a book wrapper in much the same way as two discoveries made in England.., the so-called Aslake and Duchy of Cornwall maps.

(a) attributive. Derived from, existing, or grounded (only) in books; bookish, literary, highbrow; unworldly, impractical, as book-astronomer, book-pedant, etc.See also book-farmer n., book-farming n., book-ledger n. at Compounds 3, book Latin n., book learning n.

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lOE Laws of Cnut (Corpus Cambr. 383) ii. xxxviii. §2. 338 Godcunde bote sece man georne & symble be boctale [OE Nero boctæcinge], & woruldbote sece man be woruldlage.

1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell i. 2 To bee a Sedentary Traveller only, penn'd up between Wals, and to stand poring all day upon a Map,..is like him, who thought to come to bee a good Fencer, by looking on Agrippa's book-postures only.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 105. ¶7 The Book-Pedant is much the most supportable; he has at least an exercised Understanding.

1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. iii. i. 146 Delambre finds in it [sc. Phaenomena] evidence that Euclid was merely a book-astronomer, who had never observed the heavens.

1913 Science 6 June 855/1 The necessity..has encouraged cram-quiz book methods and put a premium on an ability to answer questions.

2000 HR Mag. Nov. 115/2 It is nice if the instructor has some real-world experience, not just book experience.

(b)

book education n.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > [noun] > in books

book education1793

1793 London Packet 4 Dec. I know not what had been my propensities at the present moment, but even then he had taught me to think, though, in respect of book education, my progress had been but little advanced.

1883 Harper's Mag. Nov. 903/2 The book-education they had while boys.

1906 Jrnl. Educ. Mar. 181/1 Book education, partly because it is cheap, has assumed too great a monopoly of the school hours.

1994 E. Nordland in B. Reardon et al. Learning Peace i. 13 It is a deeply rooted perception that book education is the number one bearer of culture.

book knowledge n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [noun] > book-learning, letters

craftOE

book loreOE

lettersa1250

letter1340

lettrurec1400

literaturec1450

reading?1548

book learning1553

book skill1553

book knowledge1613

bookcrafta1637

scholarship1644

clerkship1648

letter-learning1668

bookhood1772

clerk-learning1865

literacy1880

1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. ii. xv. 106 Our english booke-knowledge in these cases is both disgraced and condemned, euery one fayling in his experiments.

1844 F. Palgrave Truths & Fictions Mid. Ages (ed. 2) 118 An ounce of mother wit, improved by observation, is worth a stone of book-knowledge.

1953 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 15 Aug. 25/1 Teachers too often teach from the book alone.., therefore making their instruction as dull and juiceless as only book knowledge can be when it is unrelated to any knowledge of life.

2012 S. Vaidhyanathan Googlization of Everything (rev. ed.) v. 151 As it turns out, universal access to book knowledge is proving not so easy to accomplish.

book language n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > a language > [noun] > book-language

bookledenOE

book languagec1598

book Latin1773

c1598 King James VI & I Basilicon Doron (1944) I. iii. 179 Not using a rusticall corrupt leid, nor yett booke language.

1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 184 The same fortune that the Greek and Latine tongues had,..to become onely School and book languages.

1882 E. A. Freeman Lect. Amer. Audiences 124 The Latin tongue..lives on..as a book-language specially learned.

1997 Eng. World-wide 18 11 English..is used within the countries only as a book language or, to a very limited extent, in some business or technical applications.

book-speech n.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > other specific styles

mock-heroica1668

far-fetch1813

periodicalism1837

pastoralism1842

book-speech1852

nounism1904

regionalism1909

Time-ese1952

kitchen-sinkery1964

nukespeak1979

1852 Gentleman's Mag. May 473/1 This ‘passive’ is very scarce among the peasantry of East Denmark. It is there the book-speech not the folk-speech.

1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue Introd. 25 They [sc. the Angles] first produced a cultivated book-speech.

1920 Bookman July 514/1 Artificial book-speech is struggled for in recitation halls; then forth issue the vital young, and just beyond the door real talk is heard once more.

book-teaching n.

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society > education > teaching > [noun] > teaching from books

book-teachingOE

OE Laws of Cnut (Nero) ii. xxxviii. §2. 338 Godcunde bote sece mann symle georne be boctæcinge, & woruldcunde bote sece man be woruldlage.

1815 Philanthropist 5 150 Book-teaching may be performed so expeditiously, that before the age at which any trade should be learned, boys may be dismissed from school, and will learn their trade better with an ordinary master.

1874 J. D. Heath Compl. Croquet-player 11 Book-teaching..cannot equal in efficiency practical lessons given by a good player on the lawn itself.

2010 H. H. Tuck Angel on my Shoulder ii. 164 There was almost no practical training whatsoever. They were big on book-teaching there.

book word n.

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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > other specific types of word

hard word1533

household word1574

magic word1581

grandam words1598

signal word1645

book worda1670

wordie1718

my whole1777

foundling1827–38

keyword1827

Mesopotamia1827

thought-word1844

word-symbol1852

nursery word1853

pivot word1865

rattler1865

object word1876

pillow word1877

nonce-word1884

non-word1893

fossil1901

blessed word1910

bogy-word1919

catch-all1922

pseudo-word1929

false friend1931

plus word1939

descriptor1946

meta-word1952

discourse marker1967

shrub2008

a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) xvi. 354 Practice is a plainer Argument than Book-words; I will satisfie you then in that.

1848 C. Kingsley Yeast in Fraser's Mag. Oct. 456/2 Those fine book-words and long sentences.

1915 E. Pound Let. Jan. (1971) i. 49 Every literaryism, every book word, fritters away a scrap of the reader's patience, a scrap of his sense of your sincerity.

2009 J. Milligan All's Well that ends Swell 28 I may be a ‘hillbilly’ and I may not know as many big ol' long book words as you, but I still know a lot, Hessie.

c. attributive. Accounting and Finance. Designating a notional or unrealized profit or loss, esp. on a share, security, etc., whose market price has risen or fallen but which has not yet been sold, as book loss, book gain, etc. Cf. paper adj. 2b.

ΚΠ

1879 Sat. Rev. 3 May 555/1 It has been urged that such a measure would enable the Government to put a stop to the loss at present incurred through the old Savings Banks. But this loss is a mere book loss.

1889 Boston Daily Advertiser 7 Nov. 3/1 He gets $11,000 in new 4s, which he sells at 82½ for $9075, and $5200 incomes, which he sells at 57 for $2964, the profit to this point showing a book profit of $739.

1894 Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 4 98 While there is an apparent or book gain, the thereby increased cost of procuring insurances more than compensates for it.

1922 G. E. Bennett Adv. Accounting vii. 229 Many instances will be encountered where the book depreciation to date will be far in excess of actual depreciation.

1969 Accounting Rev. 44 576/2 Complications arise from changes in price-level which usually result in either a book gain or a book loss.

1986 Tax Law Rev. 41 640 If property is held until the end of its depreciable or depletable life and book depreciation has been matched by economic depreciation, the partnership will not realize any tax or book gain upon the sale of the property.

1998 Financial Times 28 Jan. 25/5 There are a lot of investors sitting on large book profits in these stocks.

2005 Yale Law Jrnl. 115 690 A taxpayer may report a tax loss even where there is no reported book loss.

C2.

a. Objective.

book borrower n.

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society > communication > book > library or collection of books > borrower of books > [noun]

book borrower1826

1826 Lit. Magnet 1 137 Your demure Book-Borrower, who usually dresses in black, and wears a shovel hat, has the eye of a lynx for all scarce volumes of Elizabethan poetry, plays, facetiæ, et cet.

1931 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 105/1 (advt.) You get..your name in full gold on the front cover, which protects you against well meaning book borrowers with poor memories.

2009 J. Dutton Secrets from Sex Lab iii. 109 In another experiment, librarians who touched book borrowers on the hand were rated more positively, and borrowers were also more likely to remember the librarian's name.

† book-breeder n. Obsolete rare

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun]

bookerOE

writerOE

makerc1350

authora1382

inditera1387

pena1398

poetc1400

bookmakera1425

ditera1425

compilera1500

compositor?1533

book writer1565

penner1568

authorizera1579

bookwright1583

scribe1584

epistler1592

penman1592

scriptora1600

composer1603

book-breeder1605

comprisor?1623

volumist1641

scrivenera1660

literatist1660

knight of the quill1692

belletrist1816

scriever1825

creative writer1854

penworker1876

1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 235 Sir Th: Moore..& other Book-breeders.

book buyer n.

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society > trade and finance > buying > buyer > [noun] > buyers of other specific things

cogmen1389

redemptioner1565

gold end man1605

book buyer1655

job buyer1844

koppie walloper1886

rapper1914

home shopper1922

1655 J. Goodwin Fresh Discov. To Rdr. sig. B If either the Book-sellers, or Book-buyers, judg this a reason so satisfactory, as effectually to silence me for ever [etc.].

1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter i. 47 Book-buyers among whom his great critical works are forgotten.

1990 Newsweek 16 July 56/2 The Tattered Cover in Denver and Cody's in Berkeley, Calif., have become nationally known meccas for book buyers.

book buying n. and adj.

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society > trade and finance > buying > [noun] > buying books

book buying1786

1786 R. Heathcote Sylva vi. 30 Lucian considered this taste for book-buying, as so sure a symptom of an illiterate fellow, that he joins the two characters together.

1832 Mill in Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 2 343 The wisdom of the book-buying public.

1853 in Notes & Queries (1962) 207 84/2 Free Trade has been also a great hinderance to my bookbuying.

1903 Times 18 Dec. 7/2 The honesty and educability of the book-buying public had..been underestimated.

1989 Guardian 5 Aug. 4/7 Book buying could be on its way to becoming a quaint minority interest, like ferret fancying and welly wanging.

2005 L. Kassell Med. & Magic in Elizabethan London (2007) i. i. 29 He recorded various..book-buying expeditions.

book collecting n.

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society > communication > book > bibliophily or bibliomania > [noun]

bibliomania1734

book mania1807

book collecting1809

bibliomanism1820

bibliophilism1824

book-fancying1858

bibliophily1877

bibliomanianism-

1809 T. F. Dibdin Bibliomania 54 The madness of book-collecting rather increased.

1879 N.-Y. Times 12 July 3/6 (heading) The book-collecting newsboy.

1918 A. E. Newton (title) The amenities of book-collecting and kindred affections.

1982 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 May c7 It was Hammer's book-collecting friends..who insisted this centennial show take place.

2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Dec. 57/4 Are there, or have there been, book-chatterers who can get the general public interested in the minutiae of book collecting?

book collector n.

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society > communication > book > bibliophily or bibliomania > [noun] > person

book hunter1740

book lover1756

book collector1776

book fancier1779

bibliomane1809

bibliomaniac1816

bibliomanist1823

bibliophile1824

philobiblist1824

bookwoman1834

bibliomanian1836

bookman1885

bookaholic1965

1776 London Rev. Eng. & Foreign Lit. Dec. 474 We take notice of this new edition of Mrs. Montagu's Essay, to prevent our readers being imposed on; as was our book-collector, under the supposition, that the three dialogues, now first added, were now first printed.

1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. III. 130 The most magnificent of book-collectors, the Duke de la Valliere.

1922 Bookseller & Stationer 1 July 12/2 An imperial quarto beautifully printed on fine grade hand-made stock that will attract the attention of all book collectors.

2002 Village Voice (N.Y.) 22 Jan. 100/1 Richard A. Macksey, a scholar and noted book-collector, will deliver a talk entitled ‘By Literature Possessed: Borges, Bibliography, and the Paratext’.

book cutter n.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > tools

plough1580

fillet1641

roll1656

paper-folder1781

stamp1811

backing-hammer1818

bookstamp1819

lettering tool1833

book cutter1850

roller1852

hand letter1862

pallet1875

wagon1875

stop1880

jigger1883

gouge1885

guinea-edge1890

marbler1890

panel stamp1893

saddle stitcher1944

1850 Morning Post 10 May 5/2 A large gold watch..two handsome book cutters, one of porphyry, mounted in gold, the other coral handle with gilt knife; [etc.].

1919 Libr. Jrnl. May 316/2 The pamphlet is now entirely finished unless you have a guillotine book cutter, then the edges might be trimmed slightly.

2007 Amer. Archivist 70 25 It isn't that hard to build a whole print-on-demand bookmobile. You can actually do it in a little van with a satellite dish, a printer, a binder, and a book cutter.

book dealer n.

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1811 Brit. Rev. 2 340 This part of the work [sc. Dibdin's Bibliomania] must..be invaluable to curious book-dealers and collectors.

1946 S. J. Perelman Keep it Crisp 22 Then I slipped a pint of rye into my stomach..and went looking for a bookdealer named Lloyd Thursday.

2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 Aug. 54/1 He..calls his writing ‘prattle’ and sometimes worries that he's just telling ‘fish stories’ of interest only to other book dealers and collectors.

book designer n.

ΚΠ

1821 New Monthly Mag. 3 24/2 Engraved translations of the works of elegant book-designers have enriched a succession of numerous and valuable publications.

1928 Times 19 Mar. 12/1 (advt.) A collection of five hitherto unpublished poems, produced in an exquisite format by Bruce Rogers, the great American book designer.

2007 Guardian (Nexis) 16 Jan. 20 As a book designer I have the responsibility of ensuring product quality for the market.

book-devouring n. and adj.

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society > communication > reading > [adjective] > reading voraciously

book-devouring1814

bibliophagic1884

1814 Gentleman's Mag. 99 i. Suppl. 622 A tome that would do honour to any Dominie Sampson's book-devouring propensities.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lviii. 172 The book-devouring Isabel.

1889 Libr. Jrnl. Mar. 94/1 In one library..the children are allowed to draw but two books a week.., to prevent book-devouring.

1927 Pop. Mech. Oct. 603 (caption) Ravages of the Book-Devouring Insects; Worm- Proof Paper Is Expected to Reduce This Loss.

2007 Winchester (Va.) Star (Nexis) 30 Nov. a3/1 Book-devouring children can now bypass Mom and Dad and listen to their favorite stories on their own via an MP3 player.

book editor n.

ΚΠ

1809 T. Le Mesurier Doctr. Predestination & Assurance Examined 57 He is also the Book Editor nominated by the Conference.

1932 Times 17 Nov. 9/1 Mr. Arthur Fish, book editor to Cassells,..said he was not aware of any warning being received from the authorities with reference to the publication of the book in question until after its publication.

2002 R. Cohen By Sword 505 During my years working as a book editor, the ‘acknowledgment pages’ were most often a last-minute chore.

book fancier n.

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society > communication > book > bibliophily or bibliomania > [noun] > person

book hunter1740

book lover1756

book collector1776

book fancier1779

bibliomane1809

bibliomaniac1816

bibliomanist1823

bibliophile1824

philobiblist1824

bookwoman1834

bibliomanian1836

bookman1885

bookaholic1965

1779 G. Keate Sketches from Nature II. 133 A very scarce Spanish romance, I had long been in quest of, and had come purposely to buy; which was snapped up by a book-fancier, merely on account of its scarcity.

1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter i. 69 The curious blunder which made one of them worth the notice of the book-fanciers.

1996 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 June (Real Estate section) 4 d Even avid book fanciers will find it a challenge to fill the seven built-in bookcases that line the walls.

book-fancying n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > bibliophily or bibliomania > [noun]

bibliomania1734

book mania1807

book collecting1809

bibliomanism1820

bibliophilism1824

book-fancying1858

bibliophily1877

bibliomanianism-

1858 R. W. Emerson Bks. in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 350/1 The annals of bibliography afford many examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go.

1907 Living Age 19 Oct. 160/2 This Duchess became bitten with her husband's book-fancying mania.

1999 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 June 16/4 A roomful of book-fancying Rotarians talking about some fairly obscure novels.

book folding n. and adj.

ΚΠ

1829 Courier 29 Oct. The child, who was an orphan..had been apprenticed to learn book-folding.

1912 A. A. Stewart Printer's Dict. Techn. Terms 76 In the book-folding machine the sheets are fed to gauges or points.

2010 Mercury (South Africa) (Nexis) 21 May (Entertainment section) 4 A series of creative workshops conducted by leading arts practitioners..will include lessons in stage make-up.., book folding [etc.].

book hawker n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets

bookmonger1275

stationer1311

bookseller?c1475

bibliopolist1541

book merchant1653

newsboy1728

book hawker1737

bibliopole1775

newsman1775

news-vender1796

newsagent1811

news-vendor1823

newspaper vendor1830

newspaper seller1837

newspaper boy1843

newsgirl1859

newsie1875

paperboy1876

1737 S. A. Laval Compend. Hist. Reformation in France I. i. 82 The first who suffered it, was one Nicholas Nail a Book-hawker, who was executed at Paris in the most barbarous manner.

1852 Hampshire Advertiser 23 Oct. 5/2 We have alluded from time to time to an attempt made to circulate books of a religious and profitable kind amongst the poor by means of a book hawker.

2008 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 June a1 The bicycle rickshaws crawl alongside luxury sedans, book hawkers, horse-drawn carts, hulking buses and cows.

book hawking n.

ΚΠ

1852 Hampshire Advertiser 23 Oct. 5/2 Book Hawking.—We have alluded from time to time to an attempt made to circulate books of a religious and profitable kind amongst the poor by means of a book hawker.

2011 New Ross (County Wexford) Standard (Nexis) 20 Sept. Gay Byrne's chat show was the flagship in the RTE programming schedule, and having a prestigious slot in a weekly broadcast was more than a book-hawking exercise.

book lover n.

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society > communication > book > bibliophily or bibliomania > [noun] > person

book hunter1740

book lover1756

book collector1776

book fancier1779

bibliomane1809

bibliomaniac1816

bibliomanist1823

bibliophile1824

philobiblist1824

bookwoman1834

bibliomanian1836

bookman1885

bookaholic1965

1756 Dictionnaire Prononciation Angloise 97 Bibliophile, book-lover.

1809 F. Dibdin Bibliomania 16 It may be expected that I should notice a few book-lovers, and probably Bibliomaniacs, previously to the time of Richard De Bury.

1863 A. B. Grosart Small Sins (ed. 2) 78 A book-worm—the pest of book-lovers—has pierced..right through it.

1993 N.Y. Times 19 Sept. v. 14/5 Green Apple Books..is one of the best-kept secrets in a city of book lovers—a two-story trove of ‘new and used’.

book-loving adj. and n.

ΚΠ

1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl I. vii. 227 We have now introduced to the reader a book-loving youth, who kept accounts and wrote speeches.

1856 Brit. Workman Dec. 93/2 (caption) John, the book-loving scullion of Exeter College, Oxford.

1880 Sat. Rev. 23 Oct. 510/1 The man indifferent to books..sins by way of defect, being deficient in the contemplative virtue of book-loving.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses 306 Those delightful lovesongs with which the writer..has familiarised the bookloving world.

2005 New Yorker 12 Sept. 92/1 Hepburn's book-loving American girl.

book printer n.

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society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > one who prints books

book printera1493

bookmaker1515

a1493 Early Chancery Proc. (P.R.O.: C 1/128/79) William Cakkeston late of Westm' Bokeprynter.

?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.v^v Boke prynters, peynters, bowers.

1794 F. D’Ivernois Queries 16 Sept. in T. Jefferson Papers (2000) XXVIII. 153 Which are those, who..would be sure to find employment in the Chief neighbouring Towns, such as book printers book binders linen printers?

1889 Amer. Bookmaker Mar. 60/2 The law printer wants a large, wide faced letter; the newspaper man asks for a large face on a small body, and the book printer needs a great variety.

1937 Discovery Dec. 362/2 All advances in technique such as the steam press and the linotype, had been developed by the news-printer and later used by the book-printer.

2007 B. De Munck et al. Learning on Shop Floor ix. 191 The apprentices worked as helpers prior to the apprenticeship: ‘boys’ among the scythe smiths, ‘blackers’ among the book printers, [etc.].

book printing n.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > printing > printing specific type of work > [noun] > books

imprintingc1440

book printing1550

bookwork1755

1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles iii. clxxxv Thys science of boke printing they saye to haue ben found fyrst at Mentz.

1863 J. G. Nichols Herald & Geneal. II. 158 Our historical book-printing societies.

1999 A. M. Sammarco Cambridge 122 The Riverside Press..continued the tradition of book printing that was established in Cambridge in 1638 by Stephen Daye.

book-protecting adj. and n.

ΚΠ

1880 J. L. Warren Guide Study Book-plates 102 All other book-protecting maledictions must sound weak after this one.

1883 A. Penn Home Libr. v. 48 If a man with a fondness for books has also money enough to build a special room to hold them.., he ought to consult those learned in the law of book-protecting.

1953 Boys' Life Sept. 69/1 (advt.) Get authentic college Plasti-Coat book covers for your school and personal books. Bright college colours are eye-catching and book protecting.

2008 P. Khanna Second World (2009) 437 Itinerant book-protecting fugitives.

book publisher n.

ΚΠ

1812 Philadelphia Repertory 14 Mar. 342/3 I shall now conclude by observing with respect to the book publishers of the calamity of Richmond, that it is no more than could be expected from such men.

1908 J. London Martin Eden xxx. 267 Book-publishers, most of them, nearly all of them, are men who wanted to write and who have failed.

2010 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 17 July c1 Despite its bloodiness and the sexually charged interplay of the power-mad couple of the title, ‘Macbeth’ has been adapted by some book publishers as a story for children.

book publishing n.

ΚΠ

1816 Ann. Glasgow II. xviii. 447 It has been calculated, that since the commencement of book-publishing in numbers, 200,000 large family Bibles have been sold in Glasgow.

1959 Bookseller 17 Jan. 124/1 The financial rewards of book-publishing come not from mere publishing but from the sale of film, paperback, serial and other rights.

2002 A. Davies Frog King 101 I don't know how you can spend over a decade in book publishing and not learn how to knock out a few paragraphs promoting a new book.

book-reading n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > reading > [adjective] > reading specific material

book-readingOE

newspaper-reading1782

novel reading1782

OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) ii. xxxi. 164 Se drihtnes wer hraðe his eagan upp ahof fram þære bocrædingce [OE Hatton bocrædingce; L. lectione].

1832 Times 6 Jan. 3/3 To be sure, the book-reading lovers of antiquity would cry ‘horrible’.

1910 A. Bennett Clayhanger iii. i. 325 A new series of sixpenny reprints which had considerably excited the book-selling and book-reading worlds.

1921 E. Ferber Girls (1935) x. 199 Book-reading, bathing, reticence on Jennie's part were all shouted down as attempts at being ‘toney.’

1991 Utilitas May 24 Freedom of religious expression and of book-reading should be protected by right in every civil society.

2006 N. Devon Jrnl. (Nexis) 9 Feb. 8 Book-reading, information-seeking villagers in North Devon have started a campaign to save their local library.

book reviewer n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > review or critique > [noun] > reviewer

remarker1614

reviewer1651

book reviewer1826

revieweress1830

1826 Q. Rev. Music 8 379 Mr. Blewitt's recitative and air is written in what would be called by Book-reviewers an ambitious style.

1898 M. Beerbohm in Idler May 540/2 Even the book-reviewers could no longer assert that he did not know how to draw.

1931 J. W. Barrett World, Flesh, & Messrs. Pulitzer iv. 82 A distinctive ‘opposite editorial page’ consisting of two ‘columnists’, one book reviewer and the daily output of the dramatic critic.

2002 Guardian 6 July (Review section) 7/4 Book reviewers have other jobs—academics, or journalists—or are fully-fledged novelists or non-fictionalists.

book reviewing n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > review or critique > [noun] > reviewing > book-reviewing

book reviewing1809

1809 Brit. Critic 33 Pref. p. iii While we write, the fate of Europe is suspended on the banks of the Danube... Yet here it is a period of book writing, book collecting, and book reviewing, more undoubtedly than ever.

1909 Garden Mag. May 213/2 Time was, so old-fashioned people say, when book reviewing held its place as a sort of learned profession; reviews were read and respected.

2003 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 July 30/1 He is that rare critic nowadays who goes beyond the necessary ad-hockery of book reviewing to propound a theory of fiction.

book vender n.

ΚΠ

1778 R. Lewis Candid Philosopher II. Contents p. x On the Vanity of Printers and Book-Venders.

1882 Cent. Mag. Jan. 468/2 The vulgar and sweeping piracy of the lowest rank of book-venders partially shifted the interest of the reputable houses to the right side of the scale.

1999 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 10 June 12 Book venders report that science fiction and detective novels are more popular [than poetry].

book writer n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun]

bookerOE

writerOE

makerc1350

authora1382

inditera1387

pena1398

poetc1400

bookmakera1425

ditera1425

compilera1500

compositor?1533

book writer1565

penner1568

authorizera1579

bookwright1583

scribe1584

epistler1592

penman1592

scriptora1600

composer1603

book-breeder1605

comprisor?1623

volumist1641

scrivenera1660

literatist1660

knight of the quill1692

belletrist1816

scriever1825

creative writer1854

penworker1876

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Librarius A booke writer, or binder.

1701 H. Wanley Let. 11 July in Philos. Trans. 1704–5 (Royal Soc.) 24 1998 The Librarii or Book-writers were..a particular company of men, and their Business a Trade.

1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xxi. 385 We feel pretty crank about having a book writer here in Crampton.

1996 Billboard 28 Sept. 102/3 He's a songwriter, a singer, a talk- show host, and a book writer.

book writing n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > [noun]

bookcraftOE

fayingc1200

pena1387

composition1577

penwork1596

book writing1600

pencraft1600

composure1601

authoragea1628

literature1663

authorism1702

authorship1710

letters?1710

authoring1742

authorcraft1746

penwomanship1776

penmanship1793

authorhood1832

creative writing1837

pen-and-inkeryc1909

1600 J. Darrell Detection S. Harshnet To Rdr. sig. Aii^v What a test were it to punish treason or rebellion by Booke-writting?

1701 H. Wanley Let. 11 July in Philos. Trans. 1704–5 (Royal Soc.) 24 1998 Book-writing was their profession.

1820 W. Scott Monastery I. Answ. Introd. Ep. 76 The irritable genus comprehends the bookselling as well as the book-writing species.

1917 A. Cahan Rise of David Levinsky (1993) vi. v. 139 I had had no idea that Gentiles were capable of anything so wonderful in the line of book-writing.

1992 Washington CityPaper 14 Feb. 36/4 I am more sanguine, referring to book writing as the ultimate enslavement.

b. Instrumental.

book-fed adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > [adjective] > educated or taught > educated by books

book-taught1647

book-fed1843

1843 C. Knight William Shakespeare xv. 242 What book-fed poet could have chosen a homely incident of country life as the aptest illustration of an assembly suddenly scattered by their fears?

1932 V. Woolf Let. to Young Poet 24 As if they had neither ears nor eyes..but only honest enterprising book-fed brains.

2008 H. Jacobson Act of Love (2009) i. 22 Whatever the reality of him, he played an archetypal role in that book-fed theatre of riot and melodrama that was my sexual imagination.

book-filled adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > [adjective] > filled or lined with

voluminous1690

book-lined1809

book-walled1822

book-bound1839

book-filled1855

bookful1896

volumed1897

1855 Ladies' Compan. July 16 I was ushered into a comfortable sitting-room, two sides of which were fitted from floor to ceiling with book-filled shelves.

1965 F. Sargeson Mem. Peon ii. 32 The back book-filled room.

2006 P. Suarez & G. Suarez Home Schooling Methods 85 Books were scarce in her day, and to have a book-filled life and education were of the utmost importance.

† book-formed adj. Obsolete

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adjective] > skilled in letters

book-lereda1250

lettereda1375

bookeda1393

texted14..

letterlya1425

literate?a1475

book-learnedc1475

clerklya1529

book-read1591

bookwise1593

letter-learned1771

book-formed1798

1798 J. Baillie De Monfort i. i, in Series of Plays I. 313 Every table-wit, and book-form'd sage, And paltry poet puling to the moon.

book-lined adj.

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society > communication > book > [adjective] > filled or lined with

voluminous1690

book-lined1809

book-walled1822

book-bound1839

book-filled1855

bookful1896

volumed1897

1809 T. F. Dibdin Bibliomania 60 When I look around in my book-lined tub, I cannot but be conscious that this symptom of the disorder [sc. a passion to possess books of which the edges have never been sheared by the binder's tools] has reached my own threshold.

1897 Daily News 18 June 8/4 Warm and cosy, with book-lined walls.

1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) iii. 75 But in book-lined rooms at the back Committees meet.

1999 New Statesman 8 Nov. 18/1 Here we are in the book-lined house he keeps for working.

book-taught adj.

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society > education > [adjective] > educated or taught > educated by books

book-taught1647

book-fed1843

1647 R. Cudworth Serm. before House of Commons 4 Not he that is onely book-taught but he that is God-taught.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 8 Our book-taught philosopher.

1930 Clearfield (Pa.) Progress 8 Aug. 11/1 In the simple, beautiful and natural story of Hannah,..we impinge upon the profundities which transcend book-taught knowledge.

2004 N. M. Martínez Caramba! (2005) 310 He spoke near perfect Spanish which gave the listener every indication that he was book taught.

book-walled adj.

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society > communication > book > [adjective] > filled or lined with

voluminous1690

book-lined1809

book-walled1822

book-bound1839

book-filled1855

bookful1896

volumed1897

1822 C. Bradley Orig. Memorials 188 I should with greater readiness discover the object of my search in the book-walled study of the man, who, under the name of a philosopher, conceals the bitterest enmity against true wisdom.

1904 W. de la Mare Henry Brocken i. 2 Half my youthful days passed in that low, book-walled chamber.

2012 W. Landay Defending Jacob iii. xxviii. 288 We were seated around the circular oak table in his book-walled library.

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book account n. now chiefly historical a statement of accounts recorded in a book.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > other types of statement

stewart-compt1580

book account1649

account stateda1683

ledger-account1738

bank statement1824

pay bill1828

cost sheet1840

average-statement1865

reconciliation statement1866

swindle sheet1906

exposure draft1971

1649 J. Lilburne Legall Fund. Liberties People of Eng. 61 The Chancery (which trades men upon book accounts &c. are subject often to use).

1741 in H. H. Metcalf & O. G. Hammond Probate Rec. New Hampsh. (1915) III. 86 My book accompt standing against James Ried.

1883 C. F. Wilder Sister Ridnour's Sacrifice 232 The treasurer..keeps a correct book-account of all moneys taken and expended.

1934 J. R. Commons Institutional Econ. ix. 621 There remains only a book account of all expenditures made for the production of technological capital, at their then prices.

1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 June 46/1 Farmers built up in their localities incredibly complicated networks of credits and debts, ‘book accounts’, among neighbors that sometimes ran on for years at a time.

book agent n. originally U.S. a person who promotes the sale of books; (now) spec. a literary agent (cf. agent n.¹ 2e).

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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > promoter of book sales

book agent1810

book canvasser1826

1810 J. Lee Short Hist. Methodists ix. 254 In 1789 he was stationed in Philadelphia as Book Agent to superintend our printing business.

1830 E. Williams N.-Y. Ann. Reg. 299 John Emory and Beverly Waugh, Book Agents, New-York.

1886 Harper's Mag. Dec. 162/1 They may both be glad to invoke the aid of the despised book agent, who carries literature from door to door.

1910 C. E. Mulford Hopalong Cassidy vii. 50 Was you ever an auctioneer..or a book agent?

1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 26 Feb. b1 Without an advance or a contract or a book agent.., Judith Krantz sat down at her old Smith-Corona electric portable.

2009 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 20 Dec. (Stars Suppl.) 6/1 Jessica Fletcher is planning to do a little Christmas shopping in her native Cabot Cove, but her book agent has other plans for her.

† book answerer n. Obsolete a literary critic; cf. answerer n. 1.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > [noun] > literary critic

book answerer1711

literary critic1758

1711 Vindic. Last Parl. iv. 195 The Mercenary Two Penny Authors, their Book-Answerers, Lampooners, etc.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 45 If he has much money, he may buy reputation from your book answerers.

book auction n. a sale of books by auction.

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society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > [noun] > auction > auction of specific things

lyth-coop1681

survey1725

book auction1769

Negro auction1833

Magic Million1986

1769 Dublin Mercury 14 Mar. (advt.) Book Auction on Wednesday the 22nd inst.

1809 A. Knox Let. 29 May in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) I. 532 I was at a book-auction of a deceased priest.

1903 (title) Book-auction records.

2011 V. McCaffrey Slepyng Hound to Wake iv. 48 Both Sharon and Barbara went to the book auctions together, but it was Sharon who cataloged the old ones and worked on the displays.

book auctioneer n. a person who or agency which sells books by auction.

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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > types of

bawdy-basket1567

ballad-monger1598

land-pirate1608

map-monger1639

bookwoman1647

mercury1648

second-hand bookseller1656

Bible-seller1707

map-seller1710

stall-man1761

book auctioneer1776

scrap-monger1786

colporteur1796

death-hunter1851

train boy1852

speech-crier1856

roarer1865

looker-out1894

1776 New Morning Post 28 Nov. Lieutenant Prate-apace, the book-auctioneer, of Al—— street.

1880 J. L. Warren Guide Study Book-plates Pref. 3 The large book-auctioneers.

1919 M. R. James Thin Ghost 51 The sale-room of an old and famous firm of book auctioneers in London is..a great meeting-place for collectors.

2011 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 16 Oct. 22 A bookseller friend told me I should not spend the rest of my life on the internet and recommended me to try a book auctioneer.

book bag n. a bag of a type used for carrying books.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > for books

satchel1557

book bag1611

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Etiquette, a ticket fastened within the mouth of a Lawyers booke-bag, and containing the titles of the bookes, and the names of them to whom they belong.

1821 Woman of Genius I. x. 175 Poor woman..! She has no idea, I dare say, that his head is always in his book-bag!

1829 Floridian & Advocate 8 Dec. 3/4 Each Young Lady will provide herself with a book bag and clothes bag.

1915 Cornell Rural School Leaflet Sept. 231 Rather heavy, firm, closely woven material is best for a book bag.

2001 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 21 Aug. 23 Your own school may..stock items such as..sweat shirts emblazoned with the school emblem,..book bags and matching backpacks.

book-bearer n. a person who carries a book; (also) †a theatrical prompter (obsolete); cf. book holder n.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > prompter

book-bearer1530

book holder1585

prompter1585

ordinary1602

under-prompter1781

prompt1969

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 199/2 Boke bearer in a ploye, prothocolle.

1581 A. Munday Courtly Controuersie sig. Dii^v If Looue haue conquered any, blame the Booke bearer, and not the Booke.

1636 W. Prynne Unbishoping of Timothy & Titus 42 Timothy..being so much at Pauls beck, as to be..his cloake carrier, and booke-bearer.

1799 State of Nation (House of Commons Sel. Comm. Finance) III. Supp. 303 An Account of the Office of Book-bearer or Bag-Bearer, in the King's Bench Treasury.

1866 G. M. Fenn Bent, not Broken II. xi. 235 Followed or accompanied by the gentlemen who are made book-bearers, [they] are passing down the avenue towards the church.

2004 G. Childs Tibetan Diary vi. 105 Men..wrap one to three volumes of the Kanjur in a piece of cloth and then strap the bundle to their backs..the book-bearers depart from Pema Chöling and descend the hill toward the village.

book board n. now chiefly historical a shelf for books in a pew, pulpit, etc.

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society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > book-rest

reading desk1637

book rest1642

reading stand1730

reading table1749

book board1775

1775 Scots Mag. Dec. 692/2 Certain malicious and ill-disposed persons broke into the church of Liberton; pulled down the seat, the book-board, and some other parts of the pulpit.

1847 C. M. Yonge Scenes & Characters ix. 110 She put her arm on the book board, while rising from kneeling.

1910 J. Buchan Prester John i. 14 He seems to have banged the bookboard with some effect, and kept Tam, for once in his life, awake.

1998 W. Flynt Alabama Baptists i. 12 Arriving to preach at Enon in 1846, he discovered that the church had no pulpit Bible..the book board was low and only three inches wide, not even enough for his notes.

† book-bosomed adj. literary Obsolete carrying a book concealed in the bosom.Chiefly with allusion to Scott: see quot. 1805.

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1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel iii. viii. 70 A book-bosomed priest.

1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xxxvii. 252 Many a dreamy hour have I wandered in this delicious solitude, not ‘book-bosomed’; for, at such times, my rule is peu lire, penser beaucoup.

1887 M. L. O'Byrne Court of Rath Croghan xlvii. 386 Old Morough..spoke of a lot of book-bosomed monks to sentinel us, and an exorcist to expel us.

book-bound adj. (a) grounded (only) in books; (b) surrounded by books.

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society > communication > book > [adjective] > filled or lined with

voluminous1690

book-lined1809

book-walled1822

book-bound1839

book-filled1855

bookful1896

volumed1897

1839 Abstr. Mass. School Returns 1838–9 195 One idea, awakened in the mind of a child, is worth a hundred things mechanically worded into the memory, and this is not done by the book-bound teacher, who..just ‘asks a question’.

1863 J. C. Jeaffreson Sir Everard's Daughter xiii. 224 His little book-bound parlour.

1915 N. Shipman Under Crescent vi. iv. 259 ‘Le Roi est mort! vive le Roi!’ The cry echoes and re-echoes down the book-bound walls of history.

1997 D. Jacobson in Granta Spring 184 He despised..a sect which had come into existence precisely as an act of rebellion against the traditions of book-bound learning to which he attached so great an importance.

book-boy n. a boy employed to fetch books, esp. for readers in a library.

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society > communication > book > library or collection of books > librarian > [noun] > others who work in libraries

book-boy1860

shelf-lister1927

shelver1952

1860 Elfie in Sicily I. 18 Dr. I'll take the work, Mr. Swallow. Send it in at once. B. It will be there before you, Sir... John Look, uncle Rody, the book boy is just coming up the lawn.

1903 Daily Chron. 13 Feb. 5/1 His first situation was as book-boy in the library of the Bristol Law Society.

1982 in W. H. Mulligan Wit & Wisdom (1999) 150 I was encouraged to take a part-time job in my second year as a book-boy at the New York County Lawyers Library on Vesey Street.

book-build n. Stock Market an act of compiling in advance a register of demand for a new stock issue; an instance of book-building (book-building n. 2); frequently attributive.

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1993 Euromoney May 9/2 The Spanish participants in the deal are commended for the way in which they handled the transition..to a transparent book build, overnight underwriting, at the market price approach.

1998 Financial Times 3 Mar. 30/7 The sale price for its Caltex holding would be determined by an institutional book-build process, although the upper price for retail investors would be A$4.40.

2000 Business Rev. Weekly 7 July 74/1 Another advantage of bookbuilds is that the issue price is set just before the listing, rather than several months before.

2010 J. Clunie Predatory Trading & Crowded Exits v. 146 As the share price fell during the book-build period, the sellers and short-sellers could have covered their positions in the market at the new lower market price.

book-burner n. a person who destroys books or other publications regarded as harmful or subversive, esp. (but not necessarily) by burning them; also figurative.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > vandalism or iconoclasm > vandal or iconoclast

defacer1534

image-breaker1565

iconoclasta1629

Goth1663

Vandal1663

Huna1744

book-burner1821

idoloclast1843

train-wrecker1873

biblioclast1880

trasher1970

1821 S. Morgan Italy II. xix. 196 The English bishops were notorious book-burners in 1529.

1899 Book-lover (San Francisco) 1 86/2 The virtuous Romans appear to have been greater book-burners than the Greeks.

1951 I. Shaw Troubled Air xxii. 389 The censors and book-burners.

2001 Independent 18 May 16/8 It must be difficult to take this latest outburst of reactionism seriously. But the book-burners have said they will target the writers.

book burning n. the destruction, esp. by burning, of books or other publications regarded as harmful or subversive; an instance of this.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > vandalism or iconoclasm

spulyiationa1688

book burninga1722

spoliation1752

iconoclasm1797

vandalism1798

biblioclasm1864

skoob1963

trashing1970

vandalizing1979

a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 58 This Book-burning and Letter-murdring humor, tho far from being commanded by Christ, has prevail'd in Christianity from the beginning.

1892 J. A. Farrer Books Condemned 170 The custom of book-burning, never formally abolished, died out at last from a gradual decline of public belief in its efficacy.

1954 Ann. Reg. 1953 169 The destruction of many of these [Communist] books provoked a general outcry against ‘book-burning’.

2009 Time Out N.Y. 1 Jan. 70/2 Despite its rather highbrow pedigree, Good's journey along its predetermined path from book burnings to concentration camps reeks of middlebrow button-pushing.

book canvasser n. now chiefly historical an agent who canvasses for the sale of books, esp. by subscription.

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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > promoter of book sales

book agent1810

book canvasser1826

1826 Caledonian Mercury 30 Jan. Rumour states, that John Burness, formerly a banker, and latterly a book-canvasser, was last week found dead among the snow, near Portleathen.

1848 Philadelphia Almanac 2 (advt.) Book canvassers and agents wanted.

1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §774 Book canvasser, canvasses schools, public offices, etc., for sale of technical or other books on subscription system.

1958 Beacon (Acton, Mass.) 2 Oct. 14/3 Hello, hello, is this the Humane Society? There's a book canvasser sitting up in a tree in my garden, teasing a dog.

2007 K. Segrave Women Swindlers in Amer. xiv. 204 She didn't get that job but was hired as a book canvasser and given the district of Orange, New Jersey.

book clasp n. a (metal) clasp fitted to the covers of a book in order to keep it closed when not being read.

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1485 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1912) I. 187 Evere persone..which makes daggar chapes, purse knoppes, bulyons, book claspes, dawkes, dog colers..belonging to the said craft.

1518 in Trans. Shropshire Archaeol. Soc. (1904) 4 102 It' for mendyng the booke claspe, ij^d.

1773 A. Wood & J. Peshall Antient & Present State City of Oxf. 45 A Pair of Book Clasps of Silver.

1845 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 16 Jan. 4/2 The service had begun.., the trampling and jostling of the crowd, and the tinkling of book-clasps had ceased.

1970 K. Hoffman Year 1200 I. 80/2 The..floral ornament on a book clasp of the late twelfth century.

2011 E. Buringh Medieval MS Production vi. 355 Books were an important commodity in thirteenth-century Paris, as only a university town could support a guild solely making book clasps.

book cloth n. †(a) (probably) = book muslin n. (obsolete. rare); (b) Bookbinding stiffened cloth used to cover the boards and spine of a book.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > fine, light, or delicate > muslin > thin or fine

mulmul1619

mull1678

tarlatan1728

book muslin?1740

organdie1757

book cloth1804

society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > materials > cloth

book cloth1851

label cloth1869

mull1880

super1914

1804 Aberdeen Jrnl. 5 Sept. (advt.) James Gordon, Haberdasher..has just got to hand an extensive assortment of goods.., viz. India and British Muslins all kinds..Sampler Gauze and Book Cloth, with silks and worsteds [etc.].

1851 Literary World (N.Y.) 29 Nov. 432/3 Of the Honorable Mentions we note—Bradley, Band & Co., for book cloth binding and block gilding.

1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Nov. 7/1 Makers of book-cloth.

1975 M. Banister Craft of Bookbinding (1993) 47 (caption) Bookcloth responds best to thin, hot hard glue, heated in a double boiler.

2007 Libraries & Cultural Rec. 42 294 The survey revealed that A Singular Life originally had been produced in at least three colors of book cloth (green, blue, and gray), each with a different grain pattern.

book concern n. U.S. an organization or business engaged in the printing and sale of books.

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society > communication > printing > printing trade > [noun] > printing establishment > for books

book concern1786

1786 F. Asbury Jrnl. 26 Apr. (1852) I. 511 Arrived in Baltimore, and was occupied..in collecting money for the books, and inspecting the accounts of the Book-Concern.

1872 Congress. Globe May 3909/3 Every book published by the Methodist Book Concern..is published on sized paper.

1954 Billboard 24 Oct. 15/4 Columbia has recently wrapped up such accounts as Philco, Zenith, [etc.]..by making a hi-fi record for each company..; ballet instruction records for a large ballet school; records for a book concern.

2011 S. Harold in P. Finkelman & D. R. Kennon In Shadow of Freedom 71 Patterned..on a book concern Bailey had begun in Cincinnati during the late 1830s, the association maintained reading rooms and published Free-Soil and antislavery tracts in cooperation with the National Era's printers.

book corner n. an area of a room (esp. a classroom) set aside for books, esp. one intended to provide a quiet or comfortable place for reading; (also in extended use) a page or section in a newspaper, magazine, etc., devoted to books or literature.

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1850 Notts. Guardian 18 Apr. 4/3 These..happy days of abounding cheap literature—..in which the cottage can have its book-corner as well as the houses of the middle classes.

1894 Bk. Buyer Apr. 117/1 So the book-corner as it exists in the country papers is by no means altogether arid.

1913 Primary Educ. June 337/1 During free play each teacher..cleans the yard.., puts out the apparatus.., and arranges a book corner and other things as planned.

1969 Crisis Mar. Contents Book Corner: ‘Black Rage’ Review by Dr. Hugh F. Butts.

2005 H. White Developing Literacy Skills in Early Years i. 19 Story and nursery rhyme sessions lend themselves well to a more informal arrangement, with the group squashed cosily into the book corner.

† book-crab n. Obsolete rare = book scorpion n.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > division Pseudoarachnida > order Pseudoscorpiones > genus Chelifer

book scorpion1823

book-crab1835

Chelifer1865

1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvi. 90 In the scorpion and the book-crab..the mandibles..have a moveable joint.

book credit n. an amount credited to a named account in a ledger.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > side or column > sum entered on credit side

credit1638

creditor1660

book credit1721

plus side1900

society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > action of placing to one's credit > sum placed to one's credit

bootingc1300

allowancea1325

bank credit1653

credit1662

book credit1786

1721 True State Publick Credit 3 The first Sort of Credit was no better than honorary, which I call Book-Credit; and the second, for Distinction sake, I will call Paper-Credit.

1786 W. Maule Combination Detected 10 I called a meeting of them together, drew out a state of my debts as well as book credit.

1844 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 41 592 In almost all other transactions between dealers, bank notes are already superseded by cheques, or book credits.

1874 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. (ed. 4) ii. x. 259 Tradesmen fail in business,..in consequence of their money becoming locked up in book-credits.

2006 Main Wire (Nexis) 17 July Book credits extended to the private sector rose by only somewhat over 8% y/y on average over the past three years.

book debt n. an amount debited to a named account in a ledger; a debt owing to a tradesperson as recorded in his or her account books.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt > debt owed to tradesman for goods

score1600

book debt1644

1644 J. Blackwell It is conceived by Judgement of Many 2 Booke debts, for which no Interest is propounded, and therefore the rate of them is to be considered of now.

1689 London Gaz. No. 2480/4 The Creditors..are desired to bring in an Account of their several Debts, whether on Judgements, Bond, or Book-Debts.

1735 S.-Carolina Gaz. 8 Feb. 3/2 All those indebted to her by Bookdebts are desired to pay the same on or before the said time.

1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 12 Book Debts, if not legally demanded within the space of six years, cannot be recovered by law.

1906 C. J. C. Hyne Kate Meredith viii. 111 They can put their book debts where the monkey put the nuts.

2005 Daily Tel. 25 Apr. 33/1 The Lords will consider whether banks can continue to control book debts, and assets such as stock and payments owed by customers.

book-edge gilder n. now historical and rare a person employed in bookbinding to gild the edges of book pages.

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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinder > [noun] > worker performing specific process

clasp-man1619

clasp-maker1664

gatherer1683

stitcher1805

book-edge gilder1823

tooler1834

marbler1835

book marbler1843

paper marbler1863

forwarder1870

cropper?1881

flush-binder?1881

inlayer1881

boarder1882

filleter1884

clasper1885

placer1902

1823 Pigot & Co's London Commerc. Directory 1823–4 743 Dudley Thomas, book edge gilder.

1844 Law Chron. 15 Feb. 51/3 Dudley Thomas, of Duke-st. Smithfield, book edge gilder.

1898 Daily Chron. 24 Sept. 10/6 Book-edge gilders wanted.

1952 News-Palladium (Benton Harbor, Mich.) 10 June 14/1 The Bartolains..estimate the number of book edge gilders in the country as 12 or 13.

book-edge marbler n. now rare or historical a person employed in bookbinding to marble the edges of book pages; cf. book marbler n.

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1843 Atlas 7 Jan. 7/4 W. R. Casson, Queen-street, Cheapside, book-edge marbler.

1924 Census 1921: Classif. Industries §548 Book Edge..Marbler.

book-farmer n. freq. depreciative (now historical) a person who engages in farming with knowledge acquired chiefly from books, rather than through practical experience.

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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > inexperienced or book-farmer

book-farmer1770

jackeroo1864

1770 C. Varlo New Syst. Husbandry I. v. 75 They scorn to be book farmers..shall a gentleman because he can write, pretend to instruct me what to do with my land.

1856 Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. 7 806 A notorious book farmer..succeeded in making one of the best farms in the State of New York.

1920 R. Frost Let. 21 Mar. (1964) 102 ‘Amatoor!’ all the leaves began to murmur. ‘Book-farmer!’

2008 C. A. Elliott T. W. Harris iii. 103 Criticized and ignored by ordinary farmers who saw them as book-farmers detached from the day-to-day reality of agricultural activity..the agricultural societies turned away from their earlier efforts.

book-farming n. freq. depreciative (now historical) the practice of farming with knowledge acquired chiefly from books, rather than through practical experience.

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1794 T. Wedge Gen. View Agric. Chester 73 His prejudices are strengthened, and he sneers at what he contemptuously calls book-farming.

1823 R. B. Thomas Farmer's Almanack 1824 18–24 Dec. Be not stubborn and unreasonable in your prejudices against what is called book-farming.

1860 Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. 10 537 Another man..summarily pronounces all book farming a humbug.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Stud. Classic Amer. Lit. viii. 154 And that's why the idealists left off brook-farming, and took to book-farming.

2008 W. Allen War on Bugs x. 77/1 They ridiculed the book-farming experts who promoted arsenic for use on food.

book fest n. originally U.S. colloquial (a) = book festival n.; (b) a period of prolonged or intense reading or discussion of books.

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1908 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 25 Feb. 9/4 The Sequoia Club will hold a book fest.., when each member is asked to bring a volume, preferably of her own work, for the establishment of a library.

1914 R. A. Kasper Some People Marry i. 46 Good night... We must have a real book fest soon.

1999 Independent 17 July (Weekend Review section) 16/5 With the summer holidays fast approaching, I for one will be indulging it [sic] in a bookfest.

2009 Great Days Out from London (Time Out) 23/1 This annual book fest..attracts plenty of literary big hitters—last year..Philip Pullman and Hanif Kureishi gave lectures.

book festival n. an organized event that celebrates or promotes books or reading; a literary festival.

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1851 Literary World (N.Y.) 18 Jan. 53/1 Publisher's Circular... ‘The Book Festival at Cincinnati’ in our next.

1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 Nov. nj3 Authors in the Princeton area will autograph their new books at a party.., marking the start of a three-day book festival there.

2003 M. Balaban & J. Shields Study Away 289 The city hosts a number of annual international events such as the Edinburgh International Arts Festival,..a film festival, and a book festival.

book folder n. (a) a person employed by a printer, bookbinder, or stationer to fold paper sheets into the required page sizes (now historical); a machine which performs this function; (b) a paper wrapper placed around a bound book; a dust jacket.

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society > communication > printing > printer > readers, collators, etc. > [noun] > folder

book folder1804

society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > cover > wrapper or loose cover

wrapper1806

fall1837

book wrapper1844

jacket1850

book jacket1859

chemise1893

dust cover1902

book folder1925

dust jacket1928

dust-wrapper1932

1804 Proc. Old Bailey 5 Dec. 9/1 I am a book-folder: I was standing at the next door to Mrs. Querey's..; I saw the two prisoners come out of the house with something in their laps.

1872 C. L. Brace Dangerous Classes N.Y. 166 She went to be a book-folder downtown.

1903 Daily Chron. 24 Feb. 8/5 (advt.) Book~folder. Apply..Printing Dept.

1925 Public Opinion 5 June 538/3 Blurbs, those interesting little paragraphs which appeared on bookfolders.

2012 Printweek (Nexis) 24 Feb. 12 Océ is..holding an openhouse..where it will show six lines in full production, including its Jetstream 4300 press alongside a Manroland book folder.

book form n. †(a) a form of words written in or learnt from a book (obsolete); (b) the form of a book, esp. as opposed to any other type of publication; frequently attributive and in in book form.

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society > communication > book > [adjective] > of the form or length of book

book form1622

book length1913

1622 in R. Baddeley Boy of Bilson xii. 22 Did euer the manner of Exorcising anciently consist in Booke-formes?

1651 J. Plaifere Appello Evangelium i. 5 The second end and purpose of this writing, especially in this booke forme, was to give satisfaction to some of my learned and loving friends.

1699 F. Mackemie Truths in True Light 13 Such Ministers..dare not..in their ordinary Administrations, tye themselves to, and only use these prescribed and Book Forms.

1788 Monthly Rev. Dec. 553 The materials of this notable pamphlet first appeared in the daily prints, but they are now collected into a regular Book-form, with the addition of a postscript.

1849 D. G. Rossetti Let. 18 Oct. (1965) I. 82 They will be bound..that they may go in the book-form.

1856 Chambers's Jrnl. 5 322/2 M. Dumas had previously published it in the book-form.

1865 Boston (Mass.) Commonw. 11 Mar. These lectures will..be published in book form.

1902 ‘G. F. Monkshood’ & G. Gamble R. Kipling (ed. 3) 161 This story passed from ‘Lippincott's Magazine’ to the pomp and pride of a book-form Edition.

1964 P. F. Anson Bishops at Large vi. 196 They appeared in book-form in 1913.

2004 Independent 6 Jan. i. 15/6 Well over a million copies of the series have been sold in book form which..suggests that there are at least 100,000 Sandman loyalists out there.

book-ghoul n. a person who steals or damages books.

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1881 A. Lang Library 56 The Book-Ghoul is he who combines the larceny of the biblioklept with the abominable wickedness of breaking up and mutilating the volumes from which he steals.

1895 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Tribune 19 Apr. There is a book ghoul of the exterior and a book ghoul of the interior.

1973 Black World Aug. 71/1 The front doors were locked. Locked for what? Burglary? Ol' book-ghoul come to retrieve his pictures from E-Boney?

book gill n. Zoology (in aquatic arachnids) any of several pairs of external gills that each contain numerous fine lamellae; also called gill book.Now only found in horseshoe crabs, book gills are thought to be ancestral to book lungs.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > order Xiphosura or Merostomata > [noun] > genus Limulus > member of > parts of > respiratory organ

book gill1897

1897 T. J. Parker & W. A. Haswell Text-bk. Zool. I. xi. 621 External appendages or gills (book-gills).

1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) 379 Arthropods having four pairs of legs; tracheae, book-lungs, or book-gills.

2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures I. 125/1 Ancestors of the True scorpions..were once primarily aquatic and were equipped with organs called book gills.

book group n. a group of people who meet regularly to discuss books they have selected to read, typically as a social activity; = reading group n. at reading n.¹ Compounds 3.

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1925 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 4 Dec. 12/2 The book group of the American Association of University Women will meet at two-thirty..at the home of Miss..Higgs.

1984 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 9 Feb. [She] tells how she has ‘travelled’ with some of her book groups: ‘We “did” Africa—that is, we read V. S. Naipaul. We did Russia—Solzhenitsyn.’

2007 J. B. Kancigor Cooking Jewish 242/1 Our book group meets monthly to dine and discuss the latest read, and we always try to match the menu to the book.

book hand n. a formal style of handwriting used by professional transcribers of books before the invention of printing.

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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > others

plastograph1658

Merovingian1694

book hand1885

Lombardic1893

bastarda1894

micrographia1903

micrography1905

humanistic1911

bastard1920

rotunda1927

humanist1954

1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 143/2 Down to the time of the introduction of printing, writing ran in two lines—the set book-hand and the cursive.

1893 E. M. Thompson Handbk. Greek & Lat. Palaeogr. xix. 301 We find it convenient to treat the cursive or charter hand as a separate branch of mediaeval English writing apart from the literary or book hand.

1928 Daily Tel. 19 July 15/5 A fifteenth century English manuscript..with others written in a vernacular book-hand.

2003 M. Noble & J. Mehigan Calligrapher's Compan. 35 Uncials appeared in the 4th century and remained an important bookhand until the 8th century.

book holder n. a person who or thing which holds a book, spec. †a theatrical prompter (obsolete); also in extended use; cf. book-bearer n.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > prompter

book-bearer1530

book holder1585

prompter1585

ordinary1602

under-prompter1781

prompt1969

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 501 He that telleth the players their part when they are out and have forgotten, the prompter or booke~holder.

1659 Lady Alimony i. ii. sig. A3 What a drolling bufflehead is this.—He has been Book-holder to my Revels for decads of years.

1780 E. Malone Suppl. Shakespeare's Plays I. 30 Both the prompter, or book-holder, as he was sometimes called, and the property-man, appear to have been regular appendages of our ancient theatres.

1838 Southern Literary Messenger June 355/1 He imagined that the reclining posture was most favorable to study; and, as it was tiresome to hold anything before his eyes, while stretched upon the bed, contrived a book-holder, for this purpose.

1968 L. C. Miller How to direct High School Play 29/2 Your secretary or book-holder stops the action if a member of the cast moves incorrectly either upstage or downstage.

2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 16 Apr. 45/2 The easyreader can hold books of any size, a claim many other book holders make but fail to deliver.

book house n. (a) a library (now historical and rare); †(b) (in quot. 1675) a publishing house or bookshop (obsolete).

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society > communication > book > library or collection of books > library, place, or institution > [noun]

book houseOE

aumbrya1225

libraryc1449

Athenaeum1799

OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 126 Librarium, bochus.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 1 Þis boc is dan Michelis of Northgate... And is of þe bochouse of saynt Austines of Canterberi.

1675 A. Marvell Let. 24 July in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 342 A new popish Test for Book-Houses.

1908 Yale Lit. Mag. Jan. 165 This is not an ordinary library..but a veritable book-house of the past.

1999 C. Loth Virginia Landmarks Reg. (ed. 4) 8/1 With its numerous outbuildings, including a colonnaded ‘book house’, or library and what was perhaps a chapel, Blenheim is a striking if somewhat naive expression of Romantic Revivalism in central Virginia.

book-hunt v. intransitive to search for old or rare books to buy.

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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > make a search [verb (intransitive)] > search for old or rare books

book-hunt1778

society > communication > book > bibliophily or bibliomania > book collecting [verb (intransitive)] > follow pursuit of book-hunter

book-hunt1778

1778 F. Burney Diary & Lett. (1842) I. 58 About noon, when I went into the library, book hunting, Mrs. Thrale came to me.

1880 A. Lang XXII Ballades in Blue China 23 He book-hunts, though December freeze.

1983 J. J. Walsdorf W. Morris in Private Press & Limited Editions i. 3 In January of 1978, while in Chicago.., I had a few hours to book hunt. On a chilly, clear winter afternoon I visited the Michigan Avenue shop of James Borg, Bookseller.

2004 J. Dunning Bookman's Promise 10 I book-hunted across the midwest with Seattle friends.

book hunter n. a person who searches for old or rare books to buy.

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society > communication > book > bibliophily or bibliomania > [noun] > person

book hunter1740

book lover1756

book collector1776

book fancier1779

bibliomane1809

bibliomaniac1816

bibliomanist1823

bibliophile1824

philobiblist1824

bookwoman1834

bibliomanian1836

bookman1885

bookaholic1965

1740 tr. J. B. de Boyer Jewish Lett. I. xix. 132 Stiff and dry Romances..are greedily snapt away by those Book-hunters.

1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. III. 131 To what hard hunting these book-hunters voluntarily doom themselves.

1862 J. H. Burton (title) The Book-hunter.

2002 N. Basbanes Among Gently Mad ii. 36 Raymond Morin introduced me to book fairs, essential take-in events for the serious book hunter twenty years ago, just as essential today.

book hunting n. the action or occupation of searching for old or rare books to buy.

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1697 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris 117 I am resolved I'll never go a book-hunting after the genuine Epistles of Phalaris; though some body has cheated the World with a parcel of false ones.

1884 Cent. Mag. Dec. 174/2 As wreckers visit the coast of stormy days, so you should time your book-hunting aright.

1901 Academy 26 Oct. 375/1 Book-Hunting... There are still possibilities in this least ‘tradey’ of trades.

1997 L. Goldstone & N. Goldstone Used & Rare 36 While other families trundled off..for a day of downhill or cross-country skiing, we went book hunting.

book label n. a label, usually affixed inside the front cover of a book, identifying the owner, the institution to which it belongs, or its donor; cf. bookplate n.

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society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > labels

plate1763

bookplate1791

book label1829

bookmark1876

ex-libris1880

book piles1892

nameplate1896

1829 Aberdeen Jrnl. 25 Nov. J. K. continues to Engrave every description of Invoice Tops, Address and Business Cards, Book Labels, &c. &c. with neatness, accuracy, and despatch.

1880 J. L. Warren Guide Study Book-plates i. 8 Another view of a book-label may now be taken..a precaution against..loss or theft.

1905 Daily Chron. 19 Dec. 6/2 An interesting copy of the works of Horace, having John Kemble's leather book-label on both covers.

2001 H. J. Jackson Marginalia viii. 236 The book label for the library of the English faculty at Cambridge says, ‘You are requested not to mark this book in any way.’

book law n. written law; statute law.

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society > law > written law > [noun] > written law

book law1572

1572 Treat. Treasons against Q. Elizabeth i. f. 40 None of all these be iust impedimentes to prohibite laufull matrimonie, neither by practise, nor booke lawe.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. vi. 402 A Court of Law, not Book-Law but primeval Club-Law.

a1910 ‘O. Henry’ Sixes & Sevens (1911) xxi. 236 Luke..never knew much book law, but he had the inner emoluments of justice and mercy inculcated into his system.

2008 Amer. Jrnl. Compar. Law. 56 85 Compared to elsewhere..the gap between book law and action law is wider; the legal culture and local culture is more distant.

† book-ledger n. Obsolete a person who confines his or her study to book learning.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > a pedant

scholist1545

pedanta1593

pedantic1607

book-ledger1672

1672 T. Venn Mil. & Maritine Discipline i. xxii. 169 What can such who are mere Book-leidgers do?

booklouse n. any of numerous minute insects constituting the order Psocoptera, esp. wingless forms that are commonly found among books, esp. old books; a psocid.figurative in quot. 1753: cf. bookworm n. 1.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > group Anoplura > order Psocoptera > member of

woodlouse1666

booklouse1753

psocid1884

book mite1952

1753 J. Jortin Lett. to Author conc. Music of Ancients 34 in C. Avison Ess. Musical Expression (ed. 2) Barthius..was an excelllent Book-Louse.

1776 T. Cogan John Buncle I. 29 Book-Lice will crawl under burdens with ease, That would give you or me a most terrible squeeze.

1867 A. S. Packard in Amer. Naturalist 1 312 The little wingless book-louse (Atropos) scampering irreverently over the musty pages of his Systema Naturæ.

1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses ix. 179 Whereas the book lice feed on the paste and bindings of books, the outdoor forms are said to feed primarily on algae.

2001 G. C. McGavin Essent. Entomol. 141 Barklice and booklice are very common, small, squat, and soft-bodied insects.

book lung n. Zoology (in scorpions, spiders, and some other terrestrial arachnids) each of one or more pairs of respiratory organs containing numerous fine lamellae; also called lung book.

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1881 Proc. Royal Soc. 32 397 To arrive at the book-lungs of the Scorpion, we have to imagine the ventral surface on each side in close proximity to the short appendages carrying the gill-books.

1897 T. J. Parker & W. A. Haswell Text-bk. Zool. I. 604 The organs of respiration are sometimes tracheæ, similar to those of Insects, sometimes book-lungs or sacs containing numerous book-leaf-like plates.

1941 R. Headstrom Adventures with Microscope xliii. 158 Each book lung contains generally from fifteen to twenty horizontal leaf-like folds.

2001 Pet Reptile July 28/1 Air bubbles are trapped in hairs surrounding the book lungs, which allows the spider to breathe for a long time under the water.

book marbler n. now rare or historical a person employed in bookbinding to marble paper for books, esp. on the edges of the pages; cf. book-edge marbler n., marbler n. 3a.

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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinder > [noun] > worker performing specific process

clasp-man1619

clasp-maker1664

gatherer1683

stitcher1805

book-edge gilder1823

tooler1834

marbler1835

book marbler1843

paper marbler1863

forwarder1870

cropper?1881

flush-binder?1881

inlayer1881

boarder1882

filleter1884

clasper1885

placer1902

1843 Morning Chron. 16 Feb. 7/4 William R. Casson, of St. Thomas Apostle, book-marbler, insolvent.

1925 Pop. Mech. Mag. Aug. 278 (caption) Book marbler ‘combing’ a tank of floating water colors into an intricate design.

bookmarker n. = bookmark n.

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society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > bookmark

senyec1440

sign?c1475

register1530

bookmark1833

bookmarker1835

marker1852

1835 F. C. Meadows New Ital. & Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) 310/2 Segnácolo, mark; sign; book-marker.

1858 Brit. Postal Guide 39 Together with Bookmarkers..or other articles usually appertaining to any such Book.

1923 Humorist 4 Aug. 38/1 She only says this to cover up her own gifts to others—bookmarkers, egg-cosies, kettle-holders, and penwipers, worked by the unfortunate Miss Simpson in..her ‘spare time’.

2005 Lima (Ohio) News 4 Dec. a2/2 As I fanned the pages, a bookmarker fell out, separating pages 44 and 45, a marker reflecting a rather feeble effort to read a book of 224 pages.

book match n. a match from a matchbook; cf. sense 7h.

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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > match, spill, or taper for lighting > specifically ignited by friction

allumette1601

fire cane1644

paper match1780

Strasbourg match1825

match1830

lucifer match1831

fusee1832

loco-foco1835

oxymuriatic match1835

Congreve1839

Vesta1839

friction-match1847

safety match1850

German Congreve1851

Vesuvian1853

star1862

safety1876

tandstickor1884

post-and-railsa1890

book match1899

Swan Vesta1908

1899 Sunday Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 20 Aug. i. 5/2 Book matches have taken hold wonderfully... I mean the kind of safety matches which are made of paper and sent out in the form of a book for advertising purposes.

1939 E. August Black-out Bk. 30/1 Hold two ‘book’ matches side by side between your finger and thumb.

2006 J. Lutz Chill of Night xxvi. 169 A man paused walking past and attempted to light a cigarette in the breeze with a book match.

book mate n. a schoolmate; a fellow student or reader.

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society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > those taught by same master > fellow pupil or disciple

condisciple1554

book mate1598

class-fellow1712

classmate1713

deskmate1850

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. i. 99 The Prince and his Booke-mates .

1843 R. W. Emerson Let. 6 Jan. (1939) III. 110 I went to see Furness & we had hearty greetings old schoolmates & collegemates and book mates as we have been.

1930 Centralia (Washington) Daily Chron. 27 Aug. 2/1 Carl and Roy Hall were bookmates at summer school over on the W. S. C. Campus this fall.

2007 S. Montefiore Sea of Lost Love ii. xxi. 268 Ah, Gaitano has discovered another book mate... He will be pleased. I don't have the patience to read.

book matter n. a matter which is suitable for treatment in a book, esp. on grounds of length or complexity; matter of this type; (also) reading matter.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > [noun] > enough to fill book

book matter?1549

?1549 J. Hooper Declar. 10 Commandm. iv There be many other causes..it were a book-matter to rehearse them.

1604 N. Breton Grimellos Fortunes sig. B3 Let me go a little farther on with you out of booke-matters. What other courses haue you past with this same honestie?

1873 Sword & Trowel Dec. 536 They gorge themselves with book matter, and become mentally dyspeptic.

1907 ‘M. Twain’ N. Amer. Rev. 185 470 I found that they were newspaper matter, not book matter.

1996 E. Ausejo & M. Hormigón Paradigms & Math. 104 Perhaps when these things become just a book matter, the facts will be acknowledged.

book-mindedness n. now rare learning, knowledge from books; predisposition towards or interest in books.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [noun] > scholarliness > in books

book-learnedness1661

book-mindednessa1807

a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) iii. 92 Antiquity, and stedfast truth, And strong book-mindedness.

1903 J. Morley Life Gladstone I. ii. ii. 117 His bookmindedness is unabated.

1968 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 12 Dec. 3/1 The world of books will grow further and further away and the traditions of book-mindedness will fade from their lives.

book mite n. †(a) = book scorpion n. (obsolete); (b) = booklouse n.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Acari or family Acaridae > member of (tick) > miscellaneous or unspecified types > member of Cheyletidae

book mite1878

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > group Anoplura > order Psocoptera > member of

woodlouse1666

booklouse1753

psocid1884

book mite1952

1878 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 528/2 Cheyletidæ, the so-called book mites,—ferocious, predatory little beings, quite unconnected with books.

1952 Jrnl. New York Entomol. Soc. 60 127 ‘Of Insects’, includes descriptive accounts of the silk worm, butterfly,..book-mite, and corn weevil.

2012 M. B. Kahn Disaster Response & Planning Libraries v. 91/2 The most common types of insects in libraries, archives, and museums are cockroaches, silverfish, book mites, and termites.

† book-money n. Obsolete = surplice fees n. at surplice n. Compounds 2.

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society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > church dues > for marriages, burials, or christenings

book-money1650

surplice fees1725

stole-fees1845

1650 Declar. in R. Coxe Hibernia Anglicana (1689) App. xlviii. 179 That Oblations, Book-monies, Interments, and other Obventions in the Counties of Cork, Waterford, and Kerry, were taken from the Catholick Priests, and Pastors, by the Ministers, without any Redress or Restitution.

1692 T. Sprat Relation Late Wicked Contrivance in Harl. Misc. (1745) VI. 198 He had all the Book-Money; that is, the Fees for Marriages, Burials and Christenings.

1749 J. Wesley Let. 7 Dec. (1931) III. 25 The book-money is not to be paid to my brother, but to Brother Maxfield.

1833 1st Rep. H.M. Commissioners Eccl. Revenue & Patronage, Ireland 110/5 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 762) XXI. 201 The great and small Tithes, and the Ecclesiastical Book-money for Christenings (Burials, Marriages and Easterings excepted) belonging to the Lands of Goitgrill.

book muslin n. now historical a type of fine muslin which is folded in a book-like manner when sold by the piece (piece n. 4a); (also) a dress made of this.

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mulmul1619

mull1678

tarlatan1728

book muslin?1740

organdie1757

book cloth1804

?1740 A. Lambe Catal. Househ. Furnit. Hon. Col. J. Mercer & N. Hawksmoor 7 A piece of fine book muslin.

1759 Newport Mercury 10 Apr. 4/2 Book Muslin, Cambricks, silk Ferrets.

c1793 J. Austen Volume First in Minor Wks. (1954) 72 She lies wrapped in a book muslin bedgown.

1836 Scenes Comm. by Land & S. 214 Book muslin..is the clearest and finest of all the muslins.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xiv. 123 A low book-muslin dress and short kid gloves.

1884 19th Cent. Mar. 406 Think of a widow insisting on being provided with a book muslin.

1936 Times 2 June 15/6 In a genuine mahogany toy chest of drawers repose her best dress of white book muslin.., an afternoon dress of brown checked silk, [etc.].

2008 L. Joyce Wicked Intentions xi. 119 The servants shifted the chairs among the ebb and flow of crepe de chine and book muslin skirts.

book name n. (a) (in imperial China) a name given to a child on starting school (now rare); (b) a name of a plant or animal (other than the Latin scientific name) not widely used except in books. [In sense (a) apparently partly (in quot. 1815) after a Cantonese equivalent of Chinese (Mandarin) shūming , which is not attested in this sense, which may reflect a regional use (usually ‘book title’ and ‘to write one's name’ < shū (noun) writing, book, (verb) to write (see chen shu n.) + míng name), and probably partly after the more usual (Mandarin) terms xuémíng, lit ‘study name’ or xùnmíng, lit. ‘instruction name’ (both 13th cent. or earlier); compare milk name n. at milk n.¹ and adj. Compounds 3a.]

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the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > other specific names or types of name

the Holy Namec1440

Singh1623

specification1633

indigitamenta1657

explicative1669

ethnic1791

household name1804

class term1811

book name1815

biverb1831

class word1837

family name1840

class name1843

ananym1867

papponymic1875

autonym1879

throne name1880

demonymic1893

ethnonym1894

a name to conjure with1901

praise name1904

self-reference1948

exonym1957

specific1962

endonym1970

demonym1990

the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > scientific or technical name > other spec.

synonym1659

book name1878

organonym1889

homonym1892

neuronym1897

1815 R. Morrison Dict. Chinese Lang. I. 359 Shoo-ming, ‘Book name’, is the name given by the Master when a boy first enters at school.

1878 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Aconite, a common book-name for Aconitum Napellus.

1885 Lisbon (Dakota Territory) Star 27 Mar. 5 A Chinaman..gets a book-name when he goes to school.

1908 A. E. Moule Young China ii. 16 Then, when the boys go to school..they have a book-name, selected by the master, and written on the class books and copy slips.

1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 142 Grass Vetchling is a miserable book name, with no alternative except Shoes-and-Stockings.

2004 D. F. Austin Florida Ethnobot. 57/2 Abutilon permolle..velvety abutilon (Bahamas, a book name).

book notice n. a short piece of writing publicizing a new book; a book review; cf. notice n. 9b.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > review or critique > [noun] > book-review

recension1757

reviewal1798

book review1837

book notice1868

1868 W. James Let. 24 May in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 277 I have written a few book notices lately.

1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Sept. 591/1 The majority of the book-notices..were unpaid until the 'fifties.

1999 D. L. Larsen Company of Creative vi. 156 Goldsmith dabbled in many enterprises: translating, teaching at Milner's school, writing book notices, compiling anthologies, and writing for magazines.

book number n. a number used to identify an individual publication within a classification or location in a library.

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society > communication > book > book list > [noun] > action of listing or cataloguing books > systems of numbering

book number1856

SBN1967

ISBN1969

1856 N. B. Shurtleff Decimal Syst. Arrangem. Admin. Libraries ii. 43 Near the right hand edge of the card, should be placed the figures of the shelf and book numbers, which indicate the position of the book in the library.

1914 G. B. Kaiser Law, Legislative & Munic. Ref. Libr. i. 47 Classification numbers, book numbers, and shelf marks, in fact notation of any kind, can readily be dispensed with, though a shelf mark of some kind is useful on material which does not readily fall into a well-defined group.

2011 P. J. Newberg & J. Allen in S. I. Intner et al. Cataloging Correctly for Kids (ed. 5) xv. 190 Concerns regarding call numbers involve local policies governing the assignment of classification numbers and the addition of book numbers.

book oath n. now rare an oath sworn on the Bible; cf. sense 3a.

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the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [noun] > solemn > sworn upon the bible

book oathc1425

Bible-oath1700

c1425 Treat. Ten Commandments in Stud. Philol. (1910) 6 31 (MED) Agaynes þis commandemente doos þai þat wilfully putteth þam to book ooþe..bot it were in aful iuste cause.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 495 He hath constrayned me..by a boke othe (par mon serment sur ung liure).

1589 T. Cooper Admon. People of Eng. 32 Thomas Orwin..himselfe hath vpon his booke oath denied, that he euer printed [the books].

1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. K6 Should hee bee brought vpon his Booke-oath.

1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xii I dhruv him to Squire Egan's, I'll take my book oath.

1920 G. O'Donovan Conquest i. vi. 65 The dying word of a priest is more binding than a book oath, Mrs. Mallon says.

book packet n. a packet or parcel containing printed materials, esp. one which may be sent through the post at a reduced rate.

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society > communication > correspondence > letter > mail > [noun] > item sent by post > specific

book packet1775

self-mailer1915

1775 Let. 31 Jan. in Rohilla War (?1788) 64 The Anson having been obliged to put into Ireland, we have not received your Book Packet.

1886 Post Office Guide 3 A book-packet may contain any number of separate books.

1918 Times 7 May 8/4 Mr. Illingworth, Postmaster-General..said the Bill only dealt with..the increase of the half-penny post-card to a penny, and the various increases on the inland book packet.

2006 K. R. Gupta & A. Gupta Conc. Encycl. India II. xxii. 732 Second class mail, namely book packets, registered newspapers and periodicals are transported by..trains, buses, trucks and other means.

book page n. (a) a page of a book; (b) a page devoted to reviews and notices of books in a newspaper or journal.

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society > communication > book > leaves or pages of book > [noun] > page

page1589

book page1797

society > communication > journalism > journal > parts and layout of journals > [noun] > other sections or columns

Poets' Corner1733

situations wanted1809

situations vacant1819

feuilleton1845

roman feuilleton1845

home page1860

personal1860

society page1883

City page1893

women's page1893

book page1898

ear1901

film guide1918

op-ed1931

masthead1934

magazine section1941

write-in1947

listings1971

1797 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Apr. 19 These letters are composed in the form of book pages, and wedged together in iron frames called chases.

1850 Ohio Cultivator 1 Nov. 328/1 Persons..are advised to procure cuts of suitable size for a book page.

1898 Indiana Med. Jrnl. 16 419/2 It is with no common interest one reads Dr. Keen's work on the ‘Surgery of Typhoid Fever,’ of which Dr. Potter has made a review notice in the book pages of this issue.

1930 W. Lewis Lett. (1963) 197 The literary editors of the London book-pages.

1985 A. Blond Book Bk. ix. 142 Nicholas Bagnall and David Holloway have run the Telegraph's book pages for yonks.

2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 July (Business section) 3/2 The black-and-white display holds about 22 lines of a book page.

book piles n. a representation of a pile of books, used to decorate a bookplate; a bookplate having such a design; frequently in plural.

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society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > labels

plate1763

bookplate1791

book label1829

bookmark1876

ex-libris1880

book piles1892

nameplate1896

1892 Sat. Rev. 27 Feb. 239/1 Of all styles, the so-called ‘Library Interior,’ or the ‘Book-pile’ displaying the labels of favourite authors, is the most suitable to a modern bookman... if among the Book-piles should lurk a portrait of the owner..the ex-libris will be the means of conferring a distinctly personal and..valuable character to his books.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 305/1 ‘Book-piles’, exemplified by the ex-libris of W. Hewer (Samuel Pepys's secretary).

1922 A. Fowler Bookplates for Beginners 23/2 Bookplates showing piles of books, known simply as ‘book-piles’ were popular in England during the last half of the nineteenth century.

1977 F. Johnson Treasury of Bookplates p. vii/1 Library interiors, book piles, and even portraits..are fairly common in early non-armorial bookplates.

book pocket n. (a) a pocket attached to the inside cover of a book, esp. one in a library book, into which is inserted a card bearing the name of the reader borrowing the book and the date when it is due to be returned; (b) a pocket which can accommodate a book.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > parts of > pocket

salt-box1819

slip1819

poacher's pocket1908

book pocket1922

hare-pocket1925

1882 Libr. Jrnl. 7 181/1 The borrower's own card is then put in the book-pocket.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 416 Bloom pats with parcelled hands..bookpocket.

1955 J. E. Liberty Pract. Tailoring v. 64 The Hare Pocket..is like a long welt pocket and is sometimes called a book pocket. It is made in the lining, with the welt 1½ in. wide, lined with linen, and with a hole and button.

1972 Publishers Weekly 16 Oct. 17/1 Mrs Wallach complains that she cannot use plastic book jackets on books with maps on the inside covers. No sweat! We paste the book pocket..on the next inside page.

1998 C. Marsh Montana Libr. Bk. 36 Make a card for the book pocket... Put in lines for the borrower to sign their name.

2004 H. Calisher Tattoo for Slave 57 The wicker arm [sc. of a chair] has a book pocket, empty now but still firm to the grasp.

book post n. the system and regulations under which books and printed matter may be sent through the post, often at a reduced price compared to other items.

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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > types of service

printed paper1553

letter post1660

penny post1680

general post1687

parcel post1790

penny postage1798

twopenny post1811

twopenny1818

printed matter1836

parcel delivery1837

bangy1842

book post1848

special delivery1865

V.P.P.1888

express delivery1891

rural free delivery1891

certified mail1955

recorded delivery1960

Mailgram1969

freepost1970

1848 Morning Chron. 25 Feb. 6/4 Book-Post.—In transmitting books by post..the public have in a great many instances disregarded or misinterpreted the regulations laid down by the Treasury.

1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 31 Mar. (1955) IV. 426 I send by book post all the printed sheets of the poem.

1912 Lit. Year-bk. 687 Books are lent on personal application, or sent by book-post to persons introduced or well-known.

2002 P. Harding Goa (ed. 3) 44/2 If you are sending books or printed matter.., these can go by book post, which is considerably cheaper than parcel post.

book postage n. now rare the price charged for sending a printed item by book post; cf. book rate n.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > for postage > type of

book postage1825

1825 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 11 Oct. This note is published to rectify the mistake made by some Postmasters, in charging ‘book’ postage on the Register [of Debates in Congress], and to enable those of its subscribers who have paid it to obtain a refund.

1858 Brit. Postal Guide 9 A packet..is forwarded, charged with the deficient book-postage.

1945 ALA Jrnl. 39 345/1 The new bill..would substitute for this flat rate..a zone basis for book postage rates just as for other fourth-class matter.

bookpress n. now rare and historical a bookcase.

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society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > bookcase

libraryc1374

deska1552

bookpress1611

bookcase1698

bookstand1743

bookrack1809

book unit1901

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Armoire..cupboord; box; little booke-presse.

1778 Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser 24 July To be Sold..The office desks, stools, book-presses and fixtures.

a1871 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 275 Book press..of rough deal, but covered with newspaper veneering where necessary.

1994 R. Hellenga Sixteen Pleasures xi. 175 Sisters Angelica and Maria had managed to salvage much of the wood from the old library and the new bookpresses on the second floor would soon be ready.

book prop n. a stand or support for a book or books.

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society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > book ends or supports

book prop1862

book support1874

bookend1907

1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story I. xxviii. 214 The sofa..with book-prop and candlestick screwed to its back.

1902 Bookseller & Stationer July 15/3 Book props, either covered bricks or bent metals, could be utilized to advantage in a display and could be carried as a profitable side line.

2008 D. Bajo 351 Bks. Irma Arcuri vii. 112 The owner..brought Philip a bronze book prop shaped like a Rodin hand.

book purger n. = expurgator n.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > [noun] > emendation of text > removal of objectionable passages > one who

book purger1606

expurgator1638

censor1644

censoress1778

castrator1819

1606 W. Crashaw Falsificationum Romanarum I. 147 Instructions, giuen by the Pope..to all Booke-purgers.

1964 San Antonio (Texas) Express 11 Sept. 4 a/7 America was not founded by book-purgers, nor those impugning the patriotism of other citizens.

1993 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 7 Sept. 6 b The book purgers are among the harshest critics of growing violence, drugs and sexuality.

book rate n. the rate charged for sending a printed item by book post.

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1851 Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 1 Feb. If three cents be the lowest rate for which a letter can be conveyed, then the newspaper and book rate is not remunerative.

1965 C. Bukowski Let. 24 June in Screams from Balcony (1998) 173 I'll send you Notes from Underground if you want to read the story..all right? will send by crawl mail..book rate.

2010 Parade 17 Jan. 16/1 I piled my boxes of books on the counter..and said very solicitously, ‘Hello, how're you doing? These just need to go book rate.’

book reader n. (a) a person who reads books, esp. habitually for pleasure; (b) a hand-held device on which electronic versions of books, or other text in digital form, can be read; = e-reader n. 2.In quot. 1595: a reader of the bible, with depreciative implication of avoiding more active religious involvement.

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1595 W. Burton Rowsing of Sluggard i. sig. C2 Now I am a Minister, or a Curat, or for fault of a better, the booke-reader of our parish.

1661 F. Kirkman in J. Webster et al. Cure for Cuckold To Rdr. sig. A2 It was not long since I was onely a Book-Reader, and not a Book-seller, which Quality..I have now lately taken on me.

1773 Monthly Rev. Jan. 49 The Author of ‘the Book of Scraps’,..has benevolently showered down on the gaping multitude of booksellers and book-readers, the results of his speculations.

1811 T. F. Dibdin Bibliomania (ed. 2) iv. 231 That curious book-reader and collector, Girald, Archbishop of York.

1914 Forum Mar. 380 ‘I'll lend you a translation of the book, if you like.’ ‘No thanks,’ said Jimmy; ‘I'm no book-reader.’

1992 Sci. Fiction & Fantasy Writers Amer. Bull. Spring 55/2 Now that Sony has released the first of their ‘diskman’ book readers, it's going to be far less than another ten years before we have easy to read, portable electronic readers.

1996 R. Senjen & J. Guthrey Internet for Women ii. 35 [They] are avid book readers, with interests ranging from science fiction to medieval literature.

2000 Independent 8 June i. 5/4 Thirty million hand-held book readers—light, portable screens—are expected to be sold in the next five years, each capable of holding up to 10 full-length novels.

book report n. originally and chiefly U.S. an account or review by a student of a book which he or she has read, esp. one set as a formal assignment.

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1898 Rep. Superintendent Public Instr. Pennsylvania 1897 280 Each student is required to..present a report of what has been read. The so-called ‘book report’ is a most interesting and valuable feature of the literary work of the school.

1939 Eng. Jrnl. 28 748 We stimulated reading by means of wall posters.., by individual files of books read, by much informal talk about books, and by almost no book reports.

2006 H. O'Neill Lullabies for Little Criminals 7 The teacher shushed everyone up as she handed back our book reports.

book scorpion n. †(a) a person who is hostile to books or learning, represented as a scorpion (obsolete. rare); (b) a pseudoscorpion, esp. Chelifer cancroides, that is sometimes found in old books (where it preys on booklice and dust mites).

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > division Pseudoarachnida > order Pseudoscorpiones > genus Chelifer

book scorpion1823

book-crab1835

Chelifer1865

1649 A. Marvell in R. Lovelace Lucasta sig. a7 Swarms Of Insects..against you rise in arms. Word-peckers, Paper-rats, Book-scorpions.

1823 tr. J. P. F. Deleuze Hist. & Descr. Royal Mus. Nat. Hist. II. viii. 462 We often find in our book, herbals, etc., a small insect much like a scorpion, without a tail; it is the phalngium cancroïdes.., vulgarly called the book-scorpion.

1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 679 Book Scorpion, Chelifer Wideri.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiv. 366 Like miniature scorpions, but without the long tail or sting, are the book-scorpions or false-scorpions.

2001 H. Holmes Secret Life Dust x. 187 The book scorpion..awaits the innocent dust mite or book louse that might pass by.

book-shy adj. reluctant or unwilling to read books.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > want of learning, illiteracy > [adjective] > not studious

unliterate1548

unbookisha1616

unbooklearned1633

unscholastic1690

unreading1728

bookless1734

unliterary1788

unbooked1859

non-literate1891

book-shy1902

1902 A. H. Lewis Wolfville Days xiii. 199 I'm simply born book-shy, an' is terrified at schools from my cradle.

1941 V. Woolf Between Acts 26 Book-shy she was..and gun-shy too.

2011 M. Cart Young Adult Lit. ii. vii. 97 The normally book-shy mass media ate all this up and hyped Harry [Potter] relentlessly.

book signing n. the signing of a publication by the author or originator; spec. the signing by an author of copies of his or her work for members of the public (frequently attributive); an event where this takes place, typically held in a bookshop.

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1907 Author Apr. 186/1 Book-signing... I refer to the custom of signing, initialling, or marking with a facsimile autograph, every copy of a piece of music before it is sold. Nearly every music publisher in this country now adheres to the custom.

1939 Publishers Weekly 15 July 156/2 I am fortunate in my own town, in having warm friends among the bookstore people, so that there are book teas for me, and book signing afternoons, with fine results.

1956 Chicago Tribune 30 Dec. b5 It was in the book section of Marshall Field's and he was saying a few words before sitting down to an afternoon of book signing.

1965 R. Howard tr. S. de Beauvoir Force of Circumstance x. 540 Press conferences, television appearances,..book signings, lunches with writers, a visit to the Museum with a group of painters who—what an ordeal!

1995 Eightdays Week 20 May 17/1 An author..notices her during a book-signing session.

2005 Writer's Mag. Sept. 49/4 Instead of a traditional (usually sparsely attended) booksigning, you could team up with poets and other entertainers to present an event at which your book is sold.

bookslide n. now historical a portable stand for books having folding end panels and a base which can be extended in length by a sliding mechanism.

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1834 Hampshire Advertiser 8 Feb. (advt.) Neat mahogany book slides with brass lattice sides.

1902 Collier's Illustr. Weekly 8 Nov. 19/2 If you can do pyrography, there are many handsome things you could decorate with burnt work—cuff boxes, tie cases, handkerchief boxes, a book slide, or a newspaper rack.

a1999 J. Bassett Facing Island (2002) 157 There is still space in my beautiful Edwardian bookslide, holding the books that I have written.

book-smart adj. colloquial (originally U.S.) having knowledge acquired from books or study; scholarly, bookish; frequently implying lack of common sense or worldliness; cf. street-smart adj. at street n. and adj. Compounds 4.

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1924 Ogden (Utah) Standard Examiner 24 Aug. 3/5 Remember, bimbo, that the big money in this life don't go to the book-smart babies; it goes to the lads that can make other guys do their stuff.

1980 J. J. Carey C. Marney iv. 130 He felt that ministers need to talk less and hear more; they don't need to be book smart but they need lots of common sense.

2007 Guardian (Nexis) 27 Mar. 6 She was real book-smart, but not street-smart, so I'd copy her work to pass.

book smarts n. colloquial (originally U.S.) knowledge acquired from books or study, esp. as opposed to common sense, worldliness, etc.; academic intelligence; sometimes contrasted with street smarts n. at street n. and adj. Compounds 4.In quot. 1974 in singular: cf. smart n.² 4a(b).

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1974 Field & Stream July 105/3 But, ‘having no book smart’, as he says, D. L. turned to ‘the most intelligent person I've ever met.’

1979 Sunday Sun (Baltimore) 8 July k2/4 Those..close to Malone—a man who is gifted with common sense, but lacking in book smarts—would wonder how he could have handled the academic load at Maryland.

2013 Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 28 Apr. (Sport section) 50 He's pretty good on the book smarts, but not so good on the street smarts. He's improved a lot.., but he used to be really gullible at the start.

book society n. now chiefly historical = book club n. (in various senses).

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society > communication > book > library or collection of books > library, place, or institution > [noun] > other types

public library1597

lending library1708

travelling library?1727

book society1739

book club1740

circulating library1742

free library1746

county library1748

library of reference1809

reference library1821

prison library1847

branch library1862

bookmobile1924

1739 J. Warren in Serm. Several Subj. I. Subscribers Names p. v Book Society of Dedham, Essex.

1783 J. M. Moffatt Protestant's Prayer-bk. 175 A gentleman..may be exceedingly useful..by encouraging book societies, for the propagation of religious knowledge among the poor.

1807 R. Southey in Ann. Rev. 5 613/2 Not subjects to be sent into circulating libraries and book-societies.

1938 Times 5 Jan. 12/3 He was not conscious of any bad effect on his own business of book clubs and book societies.

2007 Libr. & Cultural Rec. 42 158 By 1821 there were some 500 flourishing proprietary libraries and 6,500 local cooperative book societies and clubs for the middle classes.

book squaring n. †(a) British Betting the action or practice of settling an account by paying out winnings or paying off a debt (obsolete); (b) Finance the action or activity (typically at the end of a fiscal period) of reducing exposure in a particular security, commodity, etc., to zero, by buying or selling stock.

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1824 St. James's Chron. 23 Sept. 4/5 Last year much was said respecting the favourite and the false start, which no doubt spoilt the best calculations. This year, too, all calculation has been of little avail, and book-squaring impossible.

1866 Sporting Gaz. 7 Apr. 256/1 He most obligingly read over the card, but as the transactions were not many, and those only of a book squaring nature, they were of little interest to your numerous readers, and not worth quoting.

1958 Times 1 Jan. 15/6 London, Dec. 31.—Merino futures were quiet in front of the new year, and to-day's business was mainly confined to book squaring.

1991 Sunday Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 19 May Gold bullion remained quiet during late trading, with business restricted to routine end-week booksquaring operations.

2003 Financial Times 4 Oct. m24/1 The initial sell-off was attributed largely to book squaring prior to the end of the third quarter on Tuesday as jittery investors looked to lock in profits.

bookstack n. an area of a library for the compact storage of books, esp. one having restricted public access; cf. stack n. 1d.

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society > communication > book > library or collection of books > [noun] > room containing books

libraryc1374

study1514

bookroom1771

bookstack1879

stack-room-

1879 Libr. Jrnl. 4 235/1 The new wing [sc. of Harvard College Library] consists of a perfectly uniform series of book stacks arranged like a gridiron, the faces numbered in order.

1900 Library Jrnl. Nov. 679/2 Convenient elevators for passengers and freight are provided in the book-stacks.

1968 Bodl. Libr. Rec. 8 60 Mobile shelving in the bookstack.

2001 In at Deep End: Cherwell Freshers' Guide 24/1 Here they have a copy of every book ever. You can ask for all of them.., but it will probably take five days to be found in a bookstack which runs under half of Oxford.

bookstamp n. a stamp used to identify the owner of a book or the institution to which it belongs.

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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > tools

plough1580

fillet1641

roll1656

paper-folder1781

stamp1811

backing-hammer1818

bookstamp1819

lettering tool1833

book cutter1850

roller1852

hand letter1862

pallet1875

wagon1875

stop1880

jigger1883

gouge1885

guinea-edge1890

marbler1890

panel stamp1893

saddle stitcher1944

1819 Catal. Lansdowne MSS Brit. Mus. 219/1 Collected by Sir Richard Saint George, Clarencieux, whose arms or book-stamp are preserved in the insides of the covers.

1909 C. Davenport (title) English Heraldic Bookstamps.

2006 Bk. Hist. 9 32 Several of the volumes currently stored at the Staatliche Bibliothek in Ansbach bear her mother's bookstamp.

bookstand n. (a) a stand or stall for the sale of books or other publications; (b) a stand or case for storing books.

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society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > bookcase

libraryc1374

deska1552

bookpress1611

bookcase1698

bookstand1743

bookrack1809

book unit1901

society > trade and finance > trading place > stall or booth > [noun] > for sale of other specific goods

bookstand1743

bookstall1753

newsstand1867

paper kiosk1935

1743 J. Smart Let. from Lady at Madrass (title page) Sold by..Bookseller,..near the Bull and Gate,..and at the Book-Stand, the Corner of Chancery Lane.

1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. xlv. 492 Thirty very large desks or book-stands of an extraordinary size..stand upon four long tables.

1807 W. Scott Let. 13 Jan. (1932) I. 346 The great genius who invented the gilded inlaid or Japan bookstands for boudoirs & drawing rooms.

1821 Q. Musical Mag. 3 153 My song is immediately printed and published by others, and I have the mortification of seeing it exposed for sale at three-pence..on almost every old book-stand in..the metropolis.

1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xiv. 303 A bookstand that supported a pile of sketch-books.

1923 Tempest 15 May 7/2 Students visited all the book stands where the magazine was on sale and demanded that the proprietors take it off.

1999 P. Mishra Romantics (2001) i. ii. 27 Besides the strong cot there was a rough study table, a wooden chair and a jute-and-bamboo bookstand.

2003 S. Brown Free Gift Inside! 273 The companies he mentions in his blockbusters often go belly up before the paperback edition hits the bookstands.

book support n. = bookend n.

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society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > book ends or supports

book prop1862

book support1874

bookend1907

1874 W. H. Post U.S. Patent 146,706 1 (heading) Improvement in book-supports.

1895 G. Stikeman Adjustable Book Shelving 4 Book supports, for partially filled shelves.

1922 Gaylord's Triangle 1 Sept. 4/1 Book end poster holders for use with book supports in table displays make neat frames for our popular 3 ×11 inch posters.

2005 C. L. Prajapati Conservation of Documents iv. 112 For proper preservation, books should be supported by one another or shelves reasonably filled by book supports or book ends.

bookswear v. now rare transitive to cause or require (a person) to swear an oath on the Bible; chiefly in passive.

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the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [verb (transitive)] > swear an oath or take an oath > impose an oath on

oatha1425

bookswear1558

1558 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 107 Bodely buke sworne.

1759 L. Sterne Polit. Romance Postscript 29 Trim declared he was as innocent as the Child that was unborn: That he would be Book-sworn he had no Hand in it.

1845 A. M. Hall Whiteboy I. x. 169 The Whiteboys, I'm tould, are book sworn against all landlords.

1948 M. Deasy Hour of Spring (1976) v. 51 The way she looked at him, you'd be Booksworn she thought he was as clever as the King of France.

book thief n. a person who steals books; also figurative (esp. in early use) a plagiarist.

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1596 R. Brooke Disc. Certaine Errours (end matter) sig. 4^v Ah wicked Booke-theefe whosoeuer did it.

1758 J. Brown Estimate Manners & Princ. Times II. i. 75 Book-Thieves..abuse, maim, or murder, every honest Author who is possessed of ought worth their carrying off.

1868 Lowell (Mass.) Daily Citizen & News 1 Jan. An investigation showed her to be a professional book thief, who already had stolen property on her person.

1908 Bull. Amer. Libr. Assoc. Sept. 251/1 Alas, it cannot be denied that we have book thieves with us always.

2010 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 22 July 25 The Cambridge-educated serial book thief who has just been sent to prison for taking books from the Royal Horticultural Society..probably thought that he was showing his connoisseurship.

book token n. a voucher which can be redeemed for a book or as part payment for a book.

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > voucher > specific kind of

scrip1818

box top1820

labour note1831

punch-out1899

book token1932

record token1939

slop-chit1946

luncheon voucher1955

dinner card1963

1932 Book Tokens (Nat. Book Council) 5 In order to give readers some idea of the appearance of the Book Token this leaflet has been made similar in size and format.

1938 Times 5 Jan. 12/3 They had a 7s. 6d. book token which they exchanged for one 5s. book and five 6d. books.

1993 G. Brown in M. Bradbury & A. Motion New Writing 2 332 Win the class prize for Effort, not as flattering as the one for Achievement, but you still get a book token.

2004 J. Moore Dot.homme (2005) i. 15 Oh, puh-lease, a bloody gift voucher or book token.

book tour n. originally U.S. a series of talks, book signings, and interviews given by an author travelling from place to place to promote a recently-published book.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > tour > types of

the tour1642

grand tour1678

circular tour1860

swing1860

tourette1881

voyage of discovery1890

roundabout1894

Cook's tour1902

conducted1907

conducted tour1907

book tour1939

tour d'horizon1952

1939 Tel.-Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) 16 July 20/3 He went on a ‘book tour’, signing autographs and attending teas in 20 cities.

1968 Times 3 Feb. 21/1 John Creasey returned from a world book tour globally piqued by the scorn for British politics with which he had been showered.

2012 M. Maeda Bk. Publishing 101 xi. 238 Publishers usually arrange book tours only for certain authors whose books sell in the hundreds of thousands of copies.

book tray n. a tray for carrying or storing books.

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society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > book-tray

book tray1830

1830 Newcastle Courant 28 Aug. (advt.) A most elegant Assortment of Cabinet Cases..viz., Ladies and Gentlemen's Dressing Cases.., Book Trays, Letter Boxes and Trays, Card Boxes, &c.

1875 T. Seaton Man. Fret Cutting iv. 42 It is a book-tray end; the full size is six inches by five.

1916 E. F. Benson David Blaize vii. 132 I love looking through old book-trays.

2007 S. M. Baule Facilities Planning for School Libr. & Technol. Centers (ed. 2) iii. 51 Students rarely use the book tray under a chair, so do not order them; they simply become footrests.

book trough n. a shelf or rack for books in the form of a trough.

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society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > book-shelf

shelf1732

open shelf1821

book trough1893

1893 Brit. Patent 1502 64/2 The seat is hinged to its standard at back and may have a book trough under it.

1929 E. Bowen Last September i. ii. 17 She glanced intently along the books in the book-trough.

1961 T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship (ed. 2) 52/1 Book trough, a V-shaped wooden shelf or rack placed on library tables for the display of books in such a manner that the titles are clearly visible.

2010 F. Sedgwick 100 Ideas for teaching Literacy lxi. 75 It is a shame if the children in Year 3 suddenly find that their book troughs disappear, to be replaced by duller shelving.

book type n. Printing (now chiefly historical) type which is used for printing books.

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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > for printing books

book type1826

body type1866

body face1898

1826 Christian Telescope 28 Oct. 96/3 (advt.) Having several large founts of handsome Book Type, he will at all times be enabled to execute Book work with expedition.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 699/1 Types are divided into two classes—book type, including Roman and Italic, and job type.

1941 H. G. Aldis et al. Printed Bk. (ed. 2) 128 Most original of twentieth-century designers is Eric Gill, whose successful book type, Perpetua, reveals an artist's fresh solution of the old problem of letter-form.

2007 R. Fawcett-Tang New Typogr. Design 7/2 It was clear that, for advertising purposes, the fine, open-faced serifed book types..were proving hopelessly inadequate.

book value n. (a) Bookkeeping the value of an asset according to a company's account books (spec. its original cost less depreciation) as distinguished from its market value; = net book value n. at net adj. Compounds; (b) Finance the value of a company or its stock as shown in its financial records, spec. its total assets less all liabilities; = net asset value n. at net adj. Compounds.

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society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > values in specific terms

book value1838

carrying value1864

written-down value1893

cash-value1898

asset value1902

resale value1913

points value1936

point value1939

shareholder value1965

1838 Patriot 8 Nov. 7/1 Were you aware of the plan proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer last year, by which a book value was to be put upon the property?

1878 Independent (N.Y.) 24 Jan. 20/1 The following table shows the book value of the stock of the different fire insurance companies of this city at the opening of the year.

1912 Milford (Iowa) Mail 14 Nov. The book value of the company is around $64,000,000, equal to approximately $430 a share.

1998 I. Hunter Which? Guide to Employment xii. 212 In order to improve the deal, employees could..ask whether the company is prepared to sell their company car to them at its book value.

2013 Wall St. Jrnl. 2 Mar. b1/4 That message sent deal makers scurrying to identify potential ‘elephants’, or companies that fit Berkshire's acquisition criteria..and also are large enough to increase the company's overall book value.

book voucher n. a voucher which can be redeemed for a book or as part payment for a book; a book token.

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1901 World (N.Y.) 25 Mar. 5/1 (advt.) Weekly Book Vouchers appear in each announcement... City Readers secure the volumes for 25 cents a copy and one voucher..at the Wanamaker store.

1901 Weekly Irish Times 1 June 6/2 Please accept my very best thanks for the book voucher you sent me as a prize.

2011 S. Gee in L. Price Unpacking my Libr. 94/2 I started buying books as a teenager, with book vouchers given to me for Christmas and birthdays.

bookwork n. (a) the study of books; book learning; (also) teaching which is based on textbooks; (b) Printing the printing of books or similar matter, as opposed to job work (see job n.² 2b) (now chiefly historical).

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society > education > learning > study > [noun] > study of books

readingeOE

bookeOE

bookworkOE

bookery1597

society > communication > printing > printing specific type of work > [noun] > books

imprintingc1440

book printing1550

bookwork1755

OE Wulfstan Institutes of Polity (Junius) 75 Bisceopes dægweorc, ðæt bið mid rihte his gebedu ærest and ðonne his bocweorc, ræding oððon rihting, lar oððon leornung.

1705 Oculist 5 Even the best recorded Golden Rule of Art, may prove but a fallible Tradition, if Book-work Knowledge were the Physicians only Guide.

1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. 48 It can hardly be supposed that he who shall have particular occasion for large letter only, should lay his money out upon such Founts as are required for Book-work.

1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich viii. 72 He'll think me..Neither better nor worse for my gentlemanship and book-work.

1881 J. G. Fitch Lect. Teaching 150 Book-work for lessons has obvious advantages.

1926 W. H. Slater What Compositor should Know iii. 1 The work of the composing department..is divided roughly into two sections: ‘Bookwork’ and ‘Jobwork’.

1989 T. Parker Place called Bird iv. 44 College was a lot harder than High School, book work didn't come easy to me there.

2007 D. Winship in S. E. Casper et al. Hist. of Bk. in Amer. III. i. 45 This free combination of type styles was particularly characteristic of job printing... The text types used for bookwork were available and used in a great, if less obviously extravagant, variety of designs.

book world n. (a) (with the) the world of literature or publishing; (b) life or the world as described in literature; a fictional world.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun]

literary world1727

book world1784

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > life as described in fiction

book world1906

1784 A. Hamilton Let. from Phocion (verso rear cover) (advt.) For more particulars in the American Book-World, please to enquire, for Bell's Sale Catalogue.

1858 W. Bagehot Coll. Wks. (1965) I. 332 In the book-world they [sc. the Liberal party] enjoyed a domination.

1905 Daily Chron. 18 July 3/2 The whole book-world is a commonwealth to which certain first, fixed principles apply.

1906 Daily Chron. 7 May 3/5 The book-world, which is the edited reflection of life, brings the great facts of contrast into added prominence.

1998 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 13 June (Weekend) 9 He has spent more than 10,000 hours over 11 years creating such a book world in A Shadow on the Glass.

2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 1 Apr. 8/1 Administrator of the Man Booker Prize, Grand Pooh-Bah of literary London and overseeing deity of the book world.

bookwright n. a maker or author of books.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun]

bookerOE

writerOE

makerc1350

authora1382

inditera1387

pena1398

poetc1400

bookmakera1425

ditera1425

compilera1500

compositor?1533

book writer1565

penner1568

authorizera1579

bookwright1583

scribe1584

epistler1592

penman1592

scriptora1600

composer1603

book-breeder1605

comprisor?1623

volumist1641

scrivenera1660

literatist1660

knight of the quill1692

belletrist1816

scriever1825

creative writer1854

penworker1876

1583 W. Rainolds Refut. Sundry Reprehensions Pref. 81 Miserabilis librifex, A miserable bookewright, as Luther malapertly nameth king Henry, a learned prince and of famous memory.

1649 R. Gell Stella Nova Ep. Ded. sig. A2 The world is overcharged with an insupportable number of books; and Bookwrights daily add unto the burden.

1799 W. Hales Irish Pursuits of Lit. 139 Here, I will transcribe, for the benefit of such of my readers, as cannot purchase the Hot press'd Edition of that Bookwright Heyne,—that disgrace of the English press.

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 139 Not an unskilful compilation..made by Richard Johnson, a noted bookwright in the reign of Elizabeth.

1879 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 268/2 More than one, who has succeeded easily as a bookwright or essayist, has found his equipment and his power of composition inadequate to the off-hand production of compact, polished, well-informed leaders.

1999 Winnipeg Free Press 29 Mar. d4/4 The people of the book are fighting again. It's the National Library of Canada versus the bookwrights—makers of limited-edition, handmade books.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	book
释义	bookn. Brit. /bʊk/, U.S. /bʊk/ Forms: early Old English baec (dative), early Old English beoc (plural), early Old English boecum (dative plural, perhaps transmission error), Old English boec (plural, chiefly non-West Saxon), Old English (rare)–early Middle English bæc (plural), Old English–early Middle English bec (plural), Old English (rare)–early Middle English becc (plural), Old English (in compounds)–early Middle English bocc, Old English (rare)–Middle English booc, Old English–Middle English (1800s– historical in sense 1d) boc, late Old English bech (plural), late Old English bocan (genitive, perhaps transmission error), late Old English bok- (inflected form), early Middle English bac (transmission error), early Middle English bee (transmission error), early Middle English beec (plural), early Middle English beoken (south-west midlands, plural), early Middle English boche (plural), early Middle English boe (transmission error), early Middle English boec (dative, in copy of Old English charter), Middle English boch, Middle English bocke, Middle English bogke, Middle English bok, Middle English bowk, Middle English bowke, Middle English boykys (singular, perhaps transmission error), Middle English buckys (south-western, plural), Middle English buke (chiefly northern), Middle English–1500s bock, Middle English–1500s boke, Middle English (chiefly northern)–1500s buk, Middle English–1600s booke, Middle English– book, 1500s bowkes (plural), 1500s boykes (plural), 1500s bucke, 1500s–1600s boocke, 1500s–1600s bouke, 1600s boouckes (plural), 1600s–1700s boock, 1900s– beuk (Irish English (northern)); English regional (northern) 1800s– beuk, 1800s– buik, 1900s– beyuck (Newcastle); Scottish pre-1700 bevk, pre-1700 bewk, pre-1700 boke, pre-1700 bouck, pre-1700 bouk, pre-1700 boulk, pre-1700 bowyk, pre-1700 buike, pre-1700 buk, pre-1700 buyk, pre-1700 bvik, pre-1700 bwck, pre-1700 bwik, pre-1700 bwike, pre-1700 bwk, pre-1700 bwke, pre-1700 1700s booke, pre-1700 1700s buick, pre-1700 1700s– book, pre-1700 1700s– buik, pre-1700 1700s– buke, pre-1700 1800s– beuk, 1800s beuck, 1900s– byeuk (north-eastern), 1900s– byook (northern). Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian bōk book, Old Dutch buok large written document, book (Middle Dutch boec book, document, Dutch boek ), Old Saxon bōk book, writing tablet (Middle Low German bōk , būk ), Old High German buoh book, written text, scripture, (in an isolated attestation) letter of the alphabet (Middle High German buoch , German Buch ), Old Icelandic bók book, story, history, Old Swedish bok book (Swedish bok ), Old Danish bok book (Danish bog ), and also (in a different declension: feminine ō -stem) Gothic bōka letter (of the alphabet), in plural bōkōs also in the sense ‘(legal) document, book’ (perhaps also in singular in this sense, as indicated by the compound frabauhtabōka document of sale), probably < the same Germanic base as beech n.Stem variation in Old English and early Middle English. In Old English a feminine athematic consonant stem, with nominative and accusative plural and genitive and dative singular bēc (probably /beːtʃ/), reflecting i-mutation of the stem vowel to ē (earlier and Anglian ōē ) and palatalization and assibilation of the final consonant, both due to following i in the lost inflectional ending. Compare e.g. oak n., borough n., goose n., louse n. This plural type shows limited survival into early Middle English. (The analogical plural in -s is first attested in occasional use in late Old English.) Forms in Germanic languages. The word varies considerably in gender and declensional class in the various Germanic languages. It appears to have been originally (except in Gothic) a Germanic feminine athematic consonant stem, in several languages subsequently assimilated to the strong neuter (a -stem) paradigm, probably on the basis of the unchanged nominative and accusative plural form. (In Gothic it is a feminine ō -stem.) Old Icelandic bók is also applied in poetic texts to bedding woven or embroidered with decorative images, although it is unclear whether this represents the same word. Germanic etymology. A long-standing and still widely accepted etymology assumes that the Germanic base of book n. is related to that of beech n. Explanations of the semantic motivation have varied considerably, with earlier scholars generally focusing on the practice among the Germanic peoples of scratching runes onto strips of wood, but more recent accounts placing more emphasis on the use of wooden writing tablets. Semantic development from ‘material for writing on’ to ‘writing, book’ has a number of parallels, as e.g. classical Latin liber bast, bast with writing on it, book (see library n.¹) and cōdex (earlier caudex ) tree trunk, wooden tablet, book (see codex n.). Objections to this etymology have been made on several grounds. The fact that book n. and beech n. and their cognates appear to reflect different noun classes in West Germanic (feminine athematic consonant stem and feminine ō -stem respectively) has been cited as an argument against an etymological connection between the two (in North Germanic both are feminine athematic consonant stems), especially since the athematic consonant stem type is normally assumed to be more archaic, but in this case appears to be shown by the noun with derived rather than primary meaning. It has also been suggested that the traditional etymology is inconsistent with the use of the word in Gothic, which has been taken as indicating that the earlier sense in all of the Germanic languages was ‘written character, rune’, with ‘written text, book’ showing a subsequent development, probably influenced by ancient Greek γράμμα letter, written mark, also (in plural γράμματα ) letters, literature (see grammar n.), and by classical Latin littera letter of the alphabet, also short piece of writing, (in plural litterae ) document, text, book (see letter n.¹). An alternative etymology has been proposed < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit bhāga- portion, lot, possession, Avestan baga portion, lot, luck, the hypothesis being that a word of this origin came to be used in Germanic for a piece of wood with runes (or a single rune) inscribed on it, used to cast lots (as described e.g. by Tacitus), then for the runic characters themselves, and hence eventually for Greek and Latin letters. See further E. Seebold Etymologie (1981) 290–91, E. Ebbinghaus in General Linguistics 22 (1982) 99–103. However, recent accounts have defended the hypothesis that book n. and beech n. are ultimately related, citing parallel cases where the name of a material and the derived name of an item made from it belong to different morphological classes (e.g. Sanskrit bhūrjá- (masculine) birch tree, (feminine) birch bark used for writing: see birch n.), and arguing that the morphological discrepancies between the forms of the two words in West Germanic languages result from the exploitation of existing morphological variants in order to realize semantic distinctions. See further A. L. Lloyd et al. Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen (1998) II. 446–9, and on the history of the topic also M. Pierce in Historische Sprachforschung 119 (2006) 273–82. Use of plural forms in Old English. In early use the word often occurs in the plural in collective use, especially with reference to the Bible and its subdivisions and to the title deeds pertaining to a property (compare respectively senses 4a, 1d); in Old English forms of the plural sometimes occur with apparent singular reference (including nominative and accusative forms with mutated vowel; compare e.g. the variant reading in quot. OE³ at sense 1d), and very occasionally even with singular agreement. Occasionally, a form with mutated vowel also appears as the first element in an Old English compound, e.g. bēcrǣding (compare book-reading n. and adj. at Compounds 2a); such examples probably show compounds employing the plural form. Specific senses. In biblical use in sense 1c originally after post-classical Latin use of classical Latin liber, itself after Hellenistic Greek use of ancient Greek βίβλος , which in the Septuagint renders both Hebrew kĕṯāḇ ‘writing, written account, book’ (in the Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures only in late books; itself a loan < Aramaic kĕṯāḇ writing, letter, decree, book) and sēper ‘missive, legal document, book, scroll’. With sense 3a compare corresponding post-classical Latin use of liber to denote the Bible, especially as used in oath-taking (from late 12th cent. in British sources). With sense 4a compare corresponding post-classical Latin use of liber to denote a component work of the Bible (frequently from 8th cent. in British sources), itself after corresponding use in Hellenistic Greek of βίβλος to denote a component work of the Bible (e.g. in the New Testament); compare also the use in Hellenistic Greek of βιβλία, plural, to denote the Scriptures (Septuagint, in e.g. τὰ βιβλία τὰ ἅγια sacred books, τὰ βιβλία τοῦ νόμου books of the law). 1. a. A portable volume consisting of a series of written, printed, or illustrated pages bound together for ease of reading.In modern use the pages are typically printed and made of paper, and are usually trimmed to a uniform rectangular or square shape, sewn or glued together along one side to form a flat or rounded back, and encased in a protective cover, but other materials and construction methods may be used. In early and historical use, and with reference to non-Western cultures, book may refer to a literary work in portable form written on a wide variety of other materials (as vellum, parchment, papyrus, cotton, silk, palm leaves, bark, tablets of wood, ivory, slate, metal, etc.), and put together in any of a number of forms (as a scroll, or as separate leaves which may be hinged, strung, stitched, or glued together). ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > [noun] bookeOE volumec1380 biblet1388 volumenc1540 tome?1570 bk.1645 vol.1682 eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) Pref. 9 Ic bebiode..ðæt nan mon ðone æstel from ðære bec ne do, ne ða boc from ðæm mynstre. OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) iv.17 He þa boc unfeold [L. revolvit librum]. c1225 (?c1200) Sawles Warde (Bodl.) (1938) 10 A gret boc..iwriten wið swarte smeale leattres. c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 1325 (MED) On ape mai a boc bi halde, An leues wenden & eft folde. c1300 St. Dominic (Laud) 26 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 278 His bokes he solde and al is guod. 1471 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 193 j bowk covered with rede velwett. 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria viii. f. 84 A volume is lesse than a boke: and a boke lesse than a coucher [L. codice]. 1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale sig. C.iiii^v There were so many false printed bokis stil putforth & bought vp so fast. 1559 Dunmow Churchwarden MS 43 b A booke of parchment conteyninge in yt a Venite booke, an ymnall, and a boke for diriges and berialls. 1641 W. S. in More's Hist. Edward V (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. A3 There comming..into my hand a booke long since printed. 1674 A. Marvell Gen. Councils in Wks. (1875) IV. 132 Would you anathemize, banish, imprison, execute us, and burn our books? 1733 I. Watts Philos. Ess. xi. §ii. 263 The proxime Matter of a Book is its Leaves printed with Words, bound up in Covers: but Paper and Printer's Ink are the remote Matter of it. 1778 Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser 24 July The..two Books making a complete Travelling Companion, may be had bound together. 1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 220/2 Most well-bound books have a little appendage at the top of the back-edge, called the ‘head-band’. 1892 H. James Lesson of Master 186 A certain feeling for letters must have rubbed off on him from the mere handling of his master's books, which he was always carrying to and fro. 1904 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 345/2 His glance..travelled from the walls lined with well-bound books to the lamps modulated to the proper light. 1921 H. W. Elson Mod. Times & Living Past. xviii. 248 The Romans wrote..on Egyptian papyrus, or on parchment, and in time the rolled book gave place to the book composed of sheets bound together. 1969 H. Brodkey in Stories in Almost Classical Mode (1989) 133 Fennie had a special system for packing their books in alphabetical order so they could easily be arranged on shelves in Washington. 1996 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 Sept. 45/1 These cloth books and their sacred lore, the ‘disciplina Etrusca’, continued in use throughout the Roman era. 2005 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 17 Sept. 14 There is a bookshelf less than an inch above a fireplace shelf and it's crammed with books on Raphaelite and avant garde art. b. A written composition long enough to fill one or more such volumes.Usually referring to compositions which are published or intended for publication.In general, a short literary composition (especially if ephemeral in character, and therefore also in form) receives some other name, as story, tract, sketch, essay, etc.In modern use also extended to compositions issued in audio or electronic form; cf. audiobook n. at audio adj. Compounds, electronic book n. 2, e-book n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] i-writeOE bookOE writOE workOE pagine?c1225 lettrurec1330 dite1340 inditing1340 writing1340 scripta1350 dittya1387 stylea1400 scriptiona1425 framec1475 invention1484 piece1533 ditement1556 paperwork1577 composition1603 confection1605 composure?1606 page?1606 the written word1619 performance1665 literature1852 OE Guthlac B 878 Us secgað bec hu Guðlac wearð þurh godes willan eadig on Engle. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) Pref. 174 Ic geseah & gehyrde mycel gedwyld on manegum engliscum bocum. OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 2 Stæfcræft is seo cæg, ðe ðæra boca andgit unlicð. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3620 For mine bæc [c1300 Otho bokes] hit me suggeð. c1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Bodl. 902) viii. 3057* In such wise as I ferst tolde, Whan I this bok began to make, In som partie it mai be take As for to lawhe and forto pleye; And forto loke in other weye, It mai be wisdom to the wise. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1470 (MED) Enoch..was þe first þat letters fand And wrot sum bokes wit his hand. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 348 (MED) Þis buk..In seven partes divised es. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. l. 4284 Sum [man] may fal þis buk to rede. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. B.iv^v I wyll intitle this boke the Golden boke. 1558 Act 1 Eliz. ii Set forth in one book entituled, The Booke of Common-prayer. 1637 Decree Starre-Chamber conc. Printing i. sig. B Seditious, scismaticall, or offensive Bookes or Pamphlets. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 222 Books have that strange Quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest Matter, they out-last Brass, Iron and Marble. 1730 J. Henley Samuel sleeping in Tabernacle 14 F. Balthus has written a book to vindicate the antient fathers from the imputation of preaching Christ Platonically. 1805 Tucker's Light of Nature Pursued (ed. 2) VII. xxii. 66 Hymns, prayers, meditations, and sweetly-written books. 1852 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 19 592 A good book is a perfect icon, a faithful picture and representation of nature and human life. 1883 Science 23 Mar. 207/2 Rev. Henry C. McCook of Philadelphia is engaged upon an illustrated book on ‘American spiders and their spinning work’. 1941 World Affairs 104 246 A geo-historical picture geography book for children in the middle grades. 1964 P. White Let. 14 Dec. (1994) ix. 275 I tried to write a book about saints, but saints are few and far between. 1990 Metals & Materials 6 446/1 Nuclear metallurgists..have been thinking for a long time that there was a real need for a book covering the metallurgy of all the major reactor systems. 1994 Guardian 24 Mar. ii. 19/2 Instead of being limited to 650 megabytes of data, a single book could, in Ted Nelson's coinage, ‘transclude’ millions and millions of megabytes. 2001 Independent on Sunday 18 Feb. (Reality section) 18/4 Dr. Bratman..has written a book on the subject, Health Food Junkies. †c. A list (of names, etc.), a register; spec. (esp. in biblical use) an account of a person's lineage or descent. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > [noun] bookeOE writlOE rolla1325 conscriptiona1382 lettersa1382 scripturea1382 monument1405 write1483 pancart1577 panchart1587 anagraphy1606 notitia1738 eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 211 Fastorum libri, cyninga bec siue consula bec. OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) i. 1 Her is on cneorisse boc [L. liber] Hælendes Cristes, Dauides suna. c1175 ( Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) v. 1 Þis his seo boc [L. liber] Adames mægrace. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. i. 1 The boke [L. liber] of generacioun of Jhesu Crist. 1425 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1425 §12. m. 2 In þe book of þe pee de gree, yeve into þis court by..my said lord erle mareschall. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Matt. i. 1 The boke [Gk. βίβλος] of the generacion of Jesus Christ. c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1825) 75 The clerkis and wrytters to the Lords of Sessioun war compellit to render the buiks [1804 ed.: buicks] of parliament unto thayme. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. v. 1 This is the booke of the generations [Heb. sēper tōlĕḏōṯ] of Adam. View more context for this quotation 1681 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 2nd Pt. 14 He intended to create some new peers; and ordered him to write a book of such as he thought meetest. d. A legal document, esp. a charter or deed by which land is conveyed. Cf. bookland n. Now historical.In recent historical use the Old and Middle English form boc is often retained. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > charter or deed conveying property > [noun] > charter or deed conveying land land-boc961 bookOE bookingOE charterc1386 OE Bounds (Sawyer 443) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1887) II. 437 Þis is seo boc þe Æþelstan cing gebocode Frithestane bisceope to Wiþiglea. OE Settlement of Dispute between Bp. Wærferð & Eadnoð (Sawyer 1446) in F. E. Harmer Sel. Eng. Hist. Docs. 9th & 10th Cent. (1914) 26 Ic..him sealde þæt lond on ece erfe & þa bec. OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) v. 31 Swa hwylc swa his wif forlæt, he sylle hyre hyra hiwgedales boc [OE Rushw. boec; L. libellum]. a1300 ( Pledge of Bp. Eadnoð, Crediton, Devon in Britannica: M. Förster zum Sechzigsten Geburtstage (1929) 120 And þisses iwrites icloua is on cridiamtone mid hure elder boken. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. l. 1 What is this boc of the forsaking of ȝoure moder. 1415 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 401 (MED) Excepte ham that I have ynemmed in this bok to-for. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 16 A Boke, cartula, carta, codex [etc.]. 1553 King Edward VI Will in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. ii. xxii. 431 All such as have paid their monies upon any bargain for lands, to have their books and bargains performed. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 219 By that time will our booke I thinke be drawne. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xxxii. 12 The witnesses, that subscribed the booke [1885 R.V. deed] of the purchase. View more context for this quotation 1726 Act for Vesting Certain Lands & Hereditaments Estate of C. Colclough 4 Indorsed on the Book of their Purchase-Deeds, and Deeds of Mortgage respectively. a1738 J. Asgill tr. in Ess. Registry (1758) 22 In the Presence of the Witnesses, who subscribed the Book of the Purchase before all the Jews that sate in the Court of the Prison. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. viii. 151 Might be conveyed by boc or written grant. 1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. i. 4 The grants were effected by the king..by means usually of a ‘book’ or charter. 1958 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 9 360 Alfred..supported the legality of restrictions on the granting of land held by book or charter. 2010 C. J. Rogers Oxf. Encycl. Medieval Warfare & Mil. Technol. I. 158/1 Land held by a written charter, or boc. e. A periodical, a magazine. Now chiefly colloquial or nonstandard. Cf. comic book n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [noun] > magazine book1659 magazine1731 mag1742 mimeo mag1967 1659 C. Oxenbridge 2nd Intimation from New Undertakers (single sheet) Which Design we perceive is still carried on, as appears by a busie Pamphleteer in his last weekly book of severall Proceedings. 1709 B. Lindley Def. Cerinthus & Ebion 4 That Criticism's much out of their way, who, by the Title of their Monthly Book, assume to themselves to be the Censurers of the Times. 1756 S. Johnson Let. 30 July (1992) I. 137 There is so little room in the monthly book, that I believe no mention will ever be made in it but of originals. 1800 H. More Let. 11 Sept. (1925) 177 The Anti-Jacobin Magazine, which is spreading more mischief over the land than almost any other book. 1873 Young Englishwoman Aug. 416/2 She has taken in The Young Englishwoman for four years, and thinks it is the best of books for young ladies. 1937 A. Thirkell Summer Half ix. 254 Rose was reduced to reading a book, by which..she meant an illustrated weekly. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 161 A good ‘book’ (i.e. a magazine) is said to be ‘smashin'’. 1985 Los Angeles Times 7 Nov. (Mag. section) 5/4 ‘Road & Track is accepted to be the classic automobile book’, said Greg Brown... Like others in the magazine industry, Brown calls magazines ‘books’. 2. A blank document used as a record. a. A number of sheets of blank writing paper bound together to form a volume in which notes may be kept; = notebook n. 1. Also figurative: a notional record of actions for which a person may be called to account (cf. book of life n. at Phrases 1e). ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > pad of paper > notebook bookOE notebook1565 tablebook1582 manuscript book1593 notary1651 pocketbook1660 tablets1773 jotter1882 pencil tablet1882 ring book1891 carnet1897 telephone pad1900 notepad1922 copy1943 OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Exod. (Claud.) xxxii. 33 Se þe on me gesyngað, ic hine adylgie of minre bec [L. de libro meo]. OE Ælfric Homily: De Doctrina Apostolica (Hatton 115) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1968) II. 631 Ic þæron geseah mid sweartum stafum awritene ealle mine synna..and mine yfelan geþohtas on þære atelican bec. lOE Canterbury Psalter cxxxviii. 16 In libro tuo omnes scribentur : on bocum þinum [eOE Royal on bec þinre] eælle bioð writone. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms cxxxviii. 16 In thi boc alle shul be writen. ?1574 W. Bourne Regiment for Sea xiv. sig. K.iv^v It is very necessarie to know in what fashion the lande doth rise vpon diuers points of the compasse, as ofte as the fashion of the lande doth alter, and to note it in some booke for remembrance. 1594 Willobie his Auisa xxvi. f. 23^v What hope hath pla'st me in your bookes, That files me fit, for such deceites? 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms cxxxviii [ix]. 16 In thy booke all my members were written..when as yet there was none of them. 1658 R. Brathwait Age of Apes in Honest Ghost 225 In my books He is the only one Who hath a wit, yet seems as he had none. 1678 J. Gailhard Compl. Gentleman ii. 37 You must take pains orderly to set down in writing in your Diary Book, what you heard and learned; and if you are many, or only two, it will be well for every one to have his own Book afterwards to compare notes. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 220 Sae dinna put me in your buke. 1812 Brit. Critic Feb. 102 Day by day, for five years,..he continued reading, walking, talking, visiting, and inspecting, and always noting in his book the feelings and opinions to which his pursuits and occupations gave rise. 1893 Punch 15 July 13/2 It would be useful to carry a little book to note down your good things. 1911 Advance 28 Dec. 811/1 Those who were good and true without being famous, whose names are written in God's book. 1943 Boys' Life Aug. 8/1 That's worth knowing. I jotted it down in my book. 1986 J. Jonnes We're still Here ii. 27 Thin, wiry, and determined, Davies trudged the dusty country roads, scribbling notes in a small book. 2011 Daily Tel. 28 Apr. 20/2 He made notes in a little book, as we all did in the olden days before smartphones and laptops. b. A systematic record of commercial transactions, minutes of meetings, attendance, etc. Also: a volume containing such records; an account book, a ledger, or (in later use) its electronic equivalent. Frequently in plural.account, cash-, day-, minute-book, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun] Domesday Book1178 registera1325 bookc1405 red book?1445 registery1483 register book1515 regesture1526 registrya1529 enroll1533 ledger1550 ledger-book1553 registry book1562 by-book1593 regest1670 registrary1696 hall-book1746 blotter1887 society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > records, reports, or documents bookc1405 memoir1571 transfer-book1694 order book1771 job note1803 log1861 deed of association1866 logbook1869 job sheet1919 kanban1977 c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Shipman's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 82 Vp into his Countour hous goth he..Hise bokes and his bagges..He leyth biforn hym on his Countyng bord. 1473 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 14 Thingis..deliuerit ay to Andro Balfour as he askit, as his buke of ressat beris. 1497–8 Old City Acct. Bk. in Archæol. Jrnl. (1886) 43 169 To Ric Magson for entryng of the Juells and goods belongyng to the Crafte into this Boke, viijd. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 848 A reckening booke. Codex accepti & expensi. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xi. 88 Keepe..thy pen from lenders booke . View more context for this quotation 1636 A. Cade Serm. Necess. for these Times 60 He keeps his books evenest..that every night books all his receits and expenses. 1660 T. Willsford Scales of Comm. 209 By Debitor or Debitors in a Merchants books, is understood the account that oweth or stands charged, and..so all things received, or the Receiver is alwayes made Debitor. 1690–1700 Order of Hospitalls sig. Fiv^v You shall kepe..the Booke of Children, Which booke shall contayne th'admission of any childe into this Howse. 1713 Boston News-let. 13 Apr. 2/2 (advt.) Messieurs Frances Clarke and Grove Hirst..resolving not to act any longer as Partners, save to shut up their Accounts now open in their Books. 1753 Scots Mag. Apr. 165/1 To cause their books to be balanced. 1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 189 If you received the note from us..it must be entered in our books. 1881 J. Morley Life R. Cobden I. 117 The books show that the nett profits of the firm had exceeded £23,000 for the year. 1955 F. Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth Space Merchants xv. 156 ‘I want to look at your books.’ He shook his head emphatically. ‘Nossir. Only the old man himself gets to see the books.’ 1968 B. Hines Kestrel for Knave 24 Just tell him to put it in t'book and I'll pay him at t'week-end. 2001 N.Y. Times 5 Apr. w1/4 Banks' books will have to reflect the true market value of their stock portfolios for the first time. †c. A credit note used in colonial trade in West Africa. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > credit documents precept1473 bill of credit1616 letter of credit1616 security1712 shop note1720 paper credit1725 shop-ticket1777 credit letter1843 circular note1850 book1863 1863 Fraser's Mag. 67 146/1 It was resolved..to renew his ‘book’. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. x. 203 In order to..simplify this goods traffic, a written piece of paper is employed—practically a cheque, which is called a ‘bou’ or ‘book’ and these ‘bous’ are cashed—i.e. gooded, at the store. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. xii. 286 I would give the creditor a book on Hatton and Cookson for the coat. 3. A specific text, elliptically or contextually understood. a. Frequently with capital initial. The Bible (occasionally spec. the New Testament or Gospels), frequently with reference to its use in the administration of oaths. Also: a sacred text of another religion, esp. the Torah or Qur'an. Cf. good book n. at good adj., n., adv., and int. Compounds 1c, People of the Book n. at people n. Phrases 1b.In early use not always clearly distinguishable from sense 4a. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > [noun] Holy Writc900 writeOE God's bookOE writOE bookOE Biblea1300 holy lettrurec1330 scripturec1330 the (sacred or holy) writings1340 gospel1393 worda1425 escripture1489 Holy Write1508 theologya1513 the written word1533 Book of God1548 oracle1548 hand biblea1680 good book1740 sacred book1782 the sacred volume1850 bibliotheca1879 Kitab1885 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > [noun] > book bookOE OE Ælfric Homily (Cambr. Ii.4.6) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 483 Þa wæs Godes sylfes Gast, swa swa seo boc us secgð, gefered ofer wæterum. OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1066 He sealde him on hand mid Christes bec & eac swor..þæt he wolde þisne þeodscype swa wel haldan swa ænig kyngc ætforan him betst dyde. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11924 To don hemm tunnderrstanndenn wrang Þe bokess hallȝhe lare..þatt wass seȝȝd off cristess þeoww Þurrh dauiþ þe profete [etc.]. c1250 in Stud. Philol. (1931) 28 598 Ase in þe boc þa apostel speket. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 9684 Hii ssolde suerie vpe þe bok ywis Þat hii ne ssolde purchasy non uvel þe king ne non of his. 1389 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 45 Eche of hem had sworen on þe bok to perfourme þe pointz. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 2042 A mantil..he toke, And ȝede bacward, als sais þe bock. c1475 in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 138 On a boke I dare well swere, In gode feythe and on womanhode. 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke (STC 24656) iv. viii. f. 96 Now a daies al that sweare laie their hande on the booke and kisse it saiyng, so helpe me God and the holy Gospell. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iv. 141 Ile be sworne on a booke shee loues you. View more context for this quotation 1678 Tryals W. Ireland, T. Pickering, & J. Grove for Murder 3 Clerk of Crown..‘Sir Philip Matthews to the Book’. 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1754) No. 3. 12 He takes the oaths of allegiance and supremacy:..some have thought themselves sufficiently absolved from them by kissing their thumbs, instead of the book. 1830 Q. Rev. Oct. 560 Mahommedanism has been received..with more confidence, because it is the religion of the Book,—a written, and, as they believe, an attested religion, of the truth of which the koran is the record and the proof. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 46 ‘Swear’ added Enoch sternly ‘on the book.’ And on the book, half-frighted, Miriam swore. 1908 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 357 Robert unfolded the document..and read out its contents slowly: ‘I swear on the Book as I, James Fry, was beat fair by Robert Inkpen at Oakleigh Ploughin' Match, an' that I done my best.’ 1938 J. C. Archer Faiths Men live By xiii. 312 Every twenty-four hours the Book is read through by a relay of granthis or ‘readers of the Granth’. 1976 Y. Menuhin in D. Villiers Next Year in Jerusalem 334 A love of improvisation..has never been lost to the people of the Book. 1994 A. Gurnah Paradise (1995) 95 Hamid..muttered Astaghfirullah, God forgive me, and shivered with the thought that he may have sounded disrespectful about the Book. 2011 C. E. Taber Earth's Final Dawn iv. 97 Historicists agree that the content of the Book is played out in history from the time of the first advent of Christ until His second advent. b. A liturgical text or prayer book, esp. the Book of Common Prayer.In the phrase by bell, book, and candle (see bell n.¹ 8) the ‘book’ used in performing an excommunication may in some examples be the Bible (cf. sense 3a) or another holy book. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > service book (general) > [noun] > for mass bookOE mass bookOE missalc1330 missal book1509 society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > service book (general) > [noun] > containing directions for worship > Anglican prayer book?1529 Book of Common Prayer1549 service book1553 book1588 Common Prayer Book1595 liturgy1629 servicea1684 common prayer1688 OE Laws of Æðelred II (Claud.) vi. li. 258 To wæde & to wiste þam þe Gode þeowian & to bocan & to bellan & to cyricwædan. OE Rubrics & Direct. for Use of Forms of Service (Laud) in M. Förster & K. Wildhagen Texte u. Forschungen zur englischen Kulturgeschichte (1921) 47 Hæbbe seðe þas þenunga gefyllan sceal, þisse endebyrdnesse boc him on þa wynstran handa. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 215 Prest..mineȝeð þat me niwe cloðes oðer elde bete boc oðer belle, calch oðer messe-ref. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 1945 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 162 Bok and candele he nam a-non and a-mansede riȝt þere Alle þat werreden holi churche. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 559 The gold..The which was leid upon the bok, Whan that alle othre sche forsok For love of him. c1450 (c1420) Prophecies Becket (Hatton) 22 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1899) 102 354 This kene clerk of Caunterbery..byddes graithe hym an auter and dresses hym to synge..his boke þan hym laked. c1480 (a1400) St. Christopher l. 114 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 343 [He] in gret thank his seruice tuke, But ony aythe one bel ore buke. 1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 27 [In 1502] Sir Edmonde de la Poole was pronuncyd acursed opynly wyth boke, belle, and candell, at Powlles crose at the sermonde before none. 1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 45 Whosoeuer will or haue subscribed vnto the booke and Articles. 1640 F. Knight Relation Seaven Yeares Slaverie 48 The grand signiour Pope-like, by booke and candle excommunicated them both, if they disobeyed his pleasure therein. 1715 T. Burnet & G. Duckett Homerides 10 The old Man grew afeard..And there his Beads began to handle, And curst them all by Book and Candle. 1842 Methodist Rev. Apr. 295 Our Oxford divines are hoping (and praying too, if they can find any such prayer in the book) that this union may soon be consummated. 1893 R. W. Buchanan Piper of Hamelin i. 17 We call'd the clergy with book and candle, To curse the vermin and end the scandal. 1938 R. S. Newdick Let. 23 Apr. in Newdick's Season of Frost iii. xxi. 331 The regular funeral service—from the book—was held, but with no sermon, just a prayer. 2012 New Scientist (Nexis) 10 Mar. Rather than bell, book and candle, the ‘exorcists’ use a laser that can set the position of a small glass bead. c. Law. In plural. Books containing authoritative reports of cases serving as legal precedents, esp. the Year Books (see yearbook n. 1). Cf. on the books at Phrases 2g(b).Recorded earliest in book case n.¹ ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court papers > [noun] > law report > books of reports book?1518 books of years and termsc1523 yearbook1579 paper-book?1608 bench book1860 ?1518 Natura Breuium (new ed.) (title page) With dyuers addicions of statutis: boke casis: plees in abatementes of the sayd writtes and theyr declaracions. c1523 J. Rastell Expos. Terminorum Legum Anglorum (title page) With diuers rulys & principalles of the law, as well out of the bokis of mayster littelton as of other bokis of the law. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 870/1 The books of the law..(where his arreignement is liberallie set downe). 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 1 b So we commonly say it is holden in our bookes. 1666 in W. G. Scott-Moncrieff Rec. Proc. Justiciary Court Edinb. (1905) I. 138 They..to have found caution acted in the Books of Adjournall. 1706 D. Carnegie in W. Fraser Hist. Carnegies (1867) II. 261 I am content and consents thir presentts be insert and registrat in the Books of Councell and Sessione. 1763 J. Mills & T. Blackwell Mem. Court Augustus III. xi. 29 Among such Men, if there were any sparks of Knowledge, they lay lurking in the Books of the Pontificial Law, wrapped up in Superstition. 1826 J. Kent Comm. Amer. Law I. xxi. 444 It will be a bad example to the barristers and students at law, and they will not give any credit to the books, or have any faith in them. 1886 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 32 29 There are other cases in the books illustrating the same principle. 1930 R. Pound Criminal Justice Amer. iv. 120 What is law in the books is largely determined by history. What is law in action is chiefly determined by public opinion. 1994 Federal Reporter 3rd Ser. 20 717 Because any condition imposed by New York law can be found in the books, a choice of law provision suffices to incorporate the Garrity rule. d. A telephone directory; = phone book n. at phone n.² Compounds 2, telephone book n. at telephone n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > telephone directory telephone directory1879 telephone book1883 book1885 directory1908 phone book1921 1885 Cassell's Family Mag. Dec. 719/1 In a minute Charlie was in my boudoir, and was ringing to the Central Exchange. I looked in the book; the fire number was something—I forget what. 1903 Telephony Apr. 212 A rich broker who had a telephone put in his house and his number in the book had to hire a boy at $7 a week to answer calls, of which there were over 150 a day. 1925 A. Christie Secret of Chimneys iv. 30 You might ring up a number for me now. Look it up in the book. 1960 K. Amis Take Girl like You vi. 87 Let's just hypothesise that I give you a ring, shall we? You're in the book, eh? 1993 I. Rankin Castle Dangerous in Beggars Banquet (2002) 191 Meantime,..I'll be at the Castellian Hotel. The number will be in the book. You can always have me paged. 4. A main subdivision of a larger written work.Typically a portion of a text which originally either constituted a separate document, or which occupied one of a number of separate rolls or volumes. a. Any of the component works forming the Bible. Frequently as part of a full title, as the Book of Daniel, the Book of Judges, etc.In early use also in plural denoting the Bible as a whole; cf. sense 3a. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > main subdivision of large work bookOE tome1519 volume1523 code1607 OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John Pref. In pathmos insula apocalipsen scribserat : in pathma ealond þæt boc ðæra sighðana eac awrat. OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 262 We rædað on bocum, ægðer ge on ðære ealdan æ, ge on þære niwan, þæt þa menn..mid axum hi sylfe bestreowodon. OE List of Relics, Exeter in M. Förster Zur Geschichte des Reliquienkultus in Altengland (1943) 76 Of sancto Hieronime þam æþelan lareowe, seþe..þa mycelan bibliothecan [sc. the Bible], on ðære beoð twa & hundseofentig boca, of ebreisce & of greccisce to ledene æðelice awende. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 5810 Þatt writenn..Goddspell o fowwre bokess. c1225 (?OE) Homily: Sicut Oves absque Pastore (Worcester F.174) in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 1 He..þe [fif] bec wende: Genesis, Exodus, Vtronomius, Numerus, Leuiticus. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2522 Ðe boc ðe is hoten genesis. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xv. cxxvii. 801 Þe firste book of Machabeorum. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. iii. 330 Se what Salamon seith in Sapience bokes. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 17161 Nat in the Book off Danyel..Nor in Thapocalyps off Iohan. ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye ii. sig. f4 Let it [sc. the Church] read these two bokes (..sapience and ecclesiasticus) vnto the edefyinge of the people. 1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible i. xxiii. 62 The Booke of Deuteronomie, (or second rehersall of the Law) maketh a Repeat of the things fallen out since the Peoples comming out of Ægypt. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V i. ii. 98 In the booke of Numbers is it writ. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) vi. 82 The full Testimony that they give to the Books of the Old Testament, does sufficiently prove their Authority and Genuineness. 1724 A. Collins Disc. Grounds Christian Relig. 20 Divines; who seem to pay little deference to the Books of the New Testament. 1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity I. Pref. 23 I have almost always quoted the Book, & Chapter. 1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. Introd. p. xxxii The Books of Moses, Joshua, and Samuel. 1930 W. R. Inge Christian Mysticism i. 19 Apocalyptism has left traces in almost all the books of the New Testament. 1997 J. Bowker World Relig. 116/1 Torah is contained in the first five books of the Bible, which, as well as history, contain the 613 commandments fundamental to Jewish life. 2010 Vanity Fair Apr. 108/2 The whole book of Exodus is a commandment-rich environment. b. A major division of the text in a lengthy prose composition or poem, esp. (in earlier use) one occupying an entire volume.Now usually in prose only when further subdivided into chapters, or portions otherwise distinguished, but formerly used more freely, where chapter would now be used, or following ancient Greek βιβλίον little book, classical Latin liber, as in the nine books of Herodotus, the twelve books of Virgil's Aeneid. ΚΠ eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) ii. viii. 53 Ne wene ic..nu ic longe spell hæbbe to secgenne, þæt ic hie on þisse bec [L. libro] geendian mæge; ac ic oþere anginnan sceal. lOE King Ælfred tr. St. Augustine Soliloquies (Vitell.) (1922) Pref. 2 Agustinus, Cartaina bisceop, worhte twa bec be his agnum Ingeþance; þa bec sint gehatene Soliloquiorum. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 11 Þis an Boc is todealet in eahte leasse Bokes [?c1225 Cleo. achte destincciuns]. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 351 Loke pleynliche of þe province of Deyra in þe first book, capitulo 51^o [sc. of William of Malmesbury's Gesta regum]. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l. 1818 My þridde book now ende Ich in þis wys. c1484 J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 119 The fyrst capytil of þe fourth boke remembryth of herbys, stonys, and treis. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection Pref. sig. Ai This treatyse..is distincte and diuyded into thre bokes, in the honour of the trinite. 1555 R. Eden Of Pole Antartike in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 245 To wryte particularly..of these regions, it wolde requyre rather a hole volume then a booke. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie Pref. 34 The last booke of this treatise. 1635 J. Babington Short Treat. Geom. 36 By the thirteenth of the sixth booke of Euclide. 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. a3^v Horace, in his First Epistle of the Second Book. 1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 29. 186 The Poem consists of Three Books. ?1797 W. Blake Four Zoas ix. 20 The Books of Urizen unroll with dreadful noise! 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I cc. 103 My poem..is meant to be Divided in twelve books. 1866 Reader 2 June 545 We find the twenty books (or chapters as we should now call them) relate to the following subjects. 1921 Sewannee Rev. 29 226 It consists of a single narrative poem in six books, each long enough to contain some hundred or so of stanzas in ottava rima. 1990 A. S. Byatt Possession ii. 9 Ragnarök , a poem in twelve books, which..some trounced as atheistic and diabolically despairing. 2009 M. Hamand Creative Writing for Dummies ii. ix. 128 The Quincunx concerns five generations of five branches of a family; each branch is covered by a part, divided into five books, containing five chapters. 5. Book learning, scholarship; study, lessons, reading. Frequently preceded by a preposition, as at, †on, to. In later use only in plural, frequently with possessive pronoun, and passing into senses 1a, 1b.In Old English chiefly in plural; in Middle English and early modern English chiefly in singular. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > [noun] > study of books readingeOE bookeOE bookworkOE bookery1597 eOE Metrical Dialogue of Solomon & Saturn (Corpus Cambr. 422) i. 61 Nænig manna wat, hæleða under hefenum, hu min hige dreoseð, bysig æfter bocum. OE Wulfstan Canons of Edgar (Corpus Cambr.) (1972) lxv. 14 We lærað þæt preost ne beo hunta.., ac plegge on his bocum swa his hade gebirað. OE tr. Theodulf of Orleans Capitula (Corpus Cambr.) xxviii. 347 We beodað þæm mæssepreostum.., þa þe on bec gelærede syn þæt hig gelomlice & geornlice heora hyrigmen of þæm bocum læren. c1300 Childhood Jesus (Laud) 1433 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1875) 1st Ser. 48 He sumȝwat on boke leornede At a maister of þat contreie. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 8690 Vor þat he ȝongost was, to boc is fader him drou, Þat he was..god clerc ynou. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. xi. 129 Plato þe Poyete I put him furste to Boke. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xii. l. 187 (MED) Wel may þe barne blisse þat hym to boke sette. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xxxv. 568 Ypocras..was A wys man On boke. a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) cv. 81 In fowle weder at my booke to sitt. 1560 J. Heywood in tr. Seneca Thyestes Pref. sig. ★iv^v As at booke with mased Muse I satte and pensiue thought Deepe drownde in dumps of drousines. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. i. 14 My sonne profits nothing in the world at his Booke . View more context for this quotation 1639 J. Fletcher et al. Bloody Brother iv. ii. sig. G2 Still at their books, they will not be pull'd off, They stick like cupping glasses. 1680 P. Henry Diaries & Lett.* (1882) 282 Children at Book again, under Mr. Sam. Lewis. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 383. ¶1 Bidding him be a good Child and mind his Book. 1728 J. Swift Intelligencer (1729) vii. 61 He kept a miserable house, but the Blame was laid wholly upon Madam; for the good Doctor was always at his Books. 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women II. viii. 53 An early love of books prevented this languor. 1801 M. Edgeworth Good French Governess in Moral Tales V. 7 He was so ‘thick-headed at his book’, that Mrs. Grace..affirmed, that he never would learn to read. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 75 His rushings to and fro, After his books, to flush his blood with air. 1900 M. H. Allies tr. I. Hahn-Hahn Heiress of Cronenstein vi. 60 Early morning and late evening found me at my books, and every day at Mass I prayed for a blessing on my work and my vocation. 2011 C. McWilliam What to look for in Winter i. ii. iv. 172 But for him, who took me out of Cambridge for the last weeks before Finals and set me to my books as you might set an animal to exercise, I should have had no kind of a degree. 6. figurative and in figurative contexts, frequently in the book of ——. a. Something considered as worthy of study, a source of instruction, or an example from which to learn. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] lorea1225 book1340 librarya1450 study1535 volume1597 subject1805 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 44 (MED) Betere may ech man rede þe ilke zenne..ine þe boc of his inwyt þanne ine ane ssepes scinne. ?1387 T. Wimbledon Serm. (Corpus Cambr.) (1967) 123 (MED) In þe bok of conscience..ȝif þou fyndest out contrarie to Cristis lif oþer to his techynge, wiþ þe knyf of penaunce and repentaunce scrape it awey and write it beterer. ?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 92 (MED) Þei techen to þe comunes bi here owen wickid lif, þat is a bok to here sugetis. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 25 It is more verrili writen in the book of mannis soule than in the outward book of parchemyn. a1500 (?c1378) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 408 (MED) Þe lif of þis herde is a bok to lewyd men, & a marke þat þei shulden sue aftir. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 408/2 To call the ymages of holye sayntes..and the figure of Chrystes crosse, the boke of his bitter passion. 1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job (new ed.) cxix. 612 The order of the world is as it were a booke to teach vs, and ought to lead vs vnto God. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. H4^v Laying before vs two Bookes or volumes to studie, if we will be secured from errour: first the scriptures, reuealing the will of God; and then the creatures expressing his power. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. i. 16 And this our life..Findes tongues in trees, bookes in the running brookes, Sermons in stones. View more context for this quotation 1693 tr. Bp. Serenus in W. Wotton tr. L. E. Du Pin New Hist. Eccl. Writers V. 88 The unlearned see in it [sc. an image] what they ought to follow, it is a Book to them who know not a Letter. 1745 J. Trapp Thoughts upon Four Last Things (ed. 2) ii. 51 Thy Book of Nature too both Day and Night I read, and study'd with sincere Delight: Thy Wonders of Creation! 1780 Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser 21 Sept. I have read the book of life for a long time, and I have read other books a little. 1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (rev. ed.) 2 That great poet to whom the book of Nature and of the human heart seemed alike laid open. 1876 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life x. 371 The infinite book of the world, and life. 1917 National Munic. Rev. Jan. 26 This important truth we learned from the book of bitter experience. 1999 K. L. Edwards Milton & Nat. World ii. vi. 127 Raphael's narrative helps us see that reading God's beneficence in the book of the world is a pleasure and a responsibility that never comes to an end. 2004 R. Gascoigne Freedom & Purpose i. i. 34 Natural law..is not a set of obligations that can be read by everyone in the open book of an unchanging human nature. b. A repository or embodiment, esp. of an abstract concept or quality; (also) the story or narrative relating to a specified concept or event. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > imaginary or reputed book book of lifeOE book1561 tome1610 1561 J. Hopkins in T. Sternhold et al. Psalmes lxix. 133 And dashe them cleane out of y^e booke, of life, of hope. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iii. 89 This precious booke of loue, this vnbound louer. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) i. i. 97 Blotting your names from Bookes of memory. View more context for this quotation 1686 N. Tate tr. G. Fracastoro Syphilis 16 To search the Book of destiny and show What change shall rise in Heav'n or Earth below. 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 73 Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate. 1781 H. Downman Death of Caesar iii. i. 358 My bosom Shall now be all unfolded to your view. It is a book of horror to be read, And crouded thick with blackest characters. ?1834 C. Brontë Leaf from Unpublished Vol. (1986) Introd. 1 Man may, indeed, hand down to posterity the history of the past; but what mortal pen can, unassisted, trace events whose birth, course & issue are perhaps but newly inscribed in the book of Fate? 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 101 Not ever would she love; but brooding turn The book of scorn. 1922 A. Mana Ld. Kitchener Lives I. 244 I sometimes forget who I was, I am so busy here, and the past life is slowly being placed in the book of memory which is only opened when necessary. 1998 M. Krysl How to accommodate Men i. 68 In bed A is spunky and gymnastic. He wants to try every imaginable position... He becomes a veritable Book of Knowledge. 2002 D. Lundy Way of Ship (2003) vi. 223 The ouster of sail was a technological revolution, the sea-going chapter in the book of the Industrial Revolution. 7. Any of various items resembling a book, esp. in being composed of leaves or plates joined or hinged at one edge. a. A packet containing 25 pieces of gold leaf separated by sheets of soft paper. ΚΠ 1474 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 61 ij bukis of gold for iiij cotis of armez for the heraldis. 1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 367 Giffin to Patric Redhewch for the Kingis buke of gold that lay in wed to him. ?1617 T. Campion 3rd & 4th Bk. Ayres iv. To Rdr. sig. C The Apothecaries haue Bookes of Gold, whose leaues being opened are so light as that they are subiect to be shaken with the least breath. 1665 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1905) III. 63 For the new cock put upon the heigh steiple.., and for gold buikis and guilding therof. 1734 Builder's Dict. I. at Gilding By this you may know how many Books of Gold will serve to gild a Work. 1797 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Apr. 133 Two ounces and two pennyweights of gold is delivered by the master to the workman, who, if extraordinarily skilful, returns two thousand leaves, or eighty books, of gold... Hence one book weighs 4.8 grains. 1884 Manufacturer & Builder Mar. 68/1 Procure some books of gold leaf; each book will contain twenty-five leaves of gold, about 3½ inches square. 1980 Old-house Jrnl. Oct. 153/2 (advt.) Gold leaf books (25 leaves) & packs (20 books). 2005 K. Admas Compl. Bk. Glass Beadmaking 24/1 Silver, gold, palladium, and copper leaf are sold in books. Foils, which are thicker and more expensive, are sold in individual sheets. b. A packet of some other commodity bound together for ease of handling or dispensing. Cf. matchbook n. at match n.² Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > bundle > flat book1613 1613 T. Best Jrnl. 28 Jan. in Voy. to E. Indies (1934) 65 I presented him with a peece and a booke of callico. 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Bale (Fr.), A Pack, or certain quantity of Merchandise; as a Bale of Spicery, of Books or Thred. 1708 Brit. Apollo 13 Feb. Any Persons, upon directing their Letters to the Printer superscrib'd, for the British Apollo, may have this Paper brought to their Houses..Likewise the Books of Guards neatly bound to keep 'em in, at two Shillings a piece. 1751 H. Sloane Will (1753) 3 I have made great additions of late years..to my collections of natural and artificial curiosities, precious stones, books of dryed samples of plants, miniatures, [etc.]. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxix. 329 A large ‘book’ was made of some twenty-five to fifty hides, doubled at the backs, and put into one another, like the leaves of a book. 1859 C. Tomlinson Illustr. Useful Arts 21 (caption) Book of Silk from China. 1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 328 The book of plate-holders. 1907 Q. National Fire Protection Assoc. Oct. 32 The cut [tobacco] leaves..drop off into piles, and when enough have accumulated, say 50 or so, the operative smooths the leaves out and folds the pile into what is termed a pad or book. 1920 K. Harris Meet Mr. Stegg i. 50 He thumbed a cigarette paper from a book that he drew from his pocket. 1942 Business Week 9 May 15/1 Essential articles..will be listed and given a price in points. Then every person in the country will be given a book of stamps representing a certain number of points. 1981 H. Morton Whale's Wake 55 Usually they left the slices [of blubber] together at one edge to facilitate handling; the chunk sliced in this fashion was called a ‘book’ for obvious reasons. 2006 J. Thomas Ideal Wife ii. 26 When Lawrence returned, Jana was in the master bed-room with a book of wallpaper samples. c. Angling. A pocketbook or book-shaped case used to store fishing tackle; = fly-book n. at fly n.¹ Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > [noun] > container for fishing-tackle book1760 fly-book1848 1760 J. Hawkins in Walton's & Cotton's Compl. Angler i. v. 117 (note) Three double leaves more..may be allotted for silk of various colours, gold and silver-twist, and other odd things; six single leaves more will complete your book. 1824 Sporting Mag. 15 147/1 The fisherman, who has got a book full of good ready-made flies. 1847 T. T. Stoddart Angler's Compan. 61 Angler's trouting book. 1906 B. Harraden Scholar's Daughter ii. 29 Mr. Gulliver answered, still fumbling or pretending to fumble over his fishing-book. 1923 Boys' Life Sept. 42/4 I want to show you something I got this morning. The finest split-bamboo fly-rod you ever laid your eyes on.., and a book of flies. 2000 J. Mosher Last Buffalo Hunter xix. 262 He began looking through his book of flies. The leather book, lined with something that resembled loose wool, held hundreds of tiny dry flies.., and dozens of smaller wet flies. d. In full book isinglass. Isinglass obtained by drying the folded swim bladder of a fish. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [noun] > from animals gold skin1507 mouth gluec1540 water glue1542 isinglass1545 gold-beater's skin1710 sea-glass1753 book1765 bone1812 mist1852 staple isinglass1879 mist1896 mis1958 1765 H. Jackson Ess. Brit. Isinglass 26 Every Species of that, commonly called Book Isinglass, from being folded into a Shape, resembling that of a Book. 1829 D. Booth Art of Brewing 23/2 The Book-isinglass..is often found to be spoilt in its folds, from imperfect drying. 1925 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 236/1 Folded isinglass from Russia is called ‘book’. 2000 G. J. Flick & R. E. Martin in R. E. Martin et al. Marine & Freshwater Products Handbk. 609/2 Isinglass is produced either as leaf- or book-isinglass. e. A book-shaped folding case for holding banknotes, papers, etc.; = pocketbook n. 2a. Now rare. ΚΠ 1792 Cal. of Prisoners York Castle & Ousebridge Gaol 19 Mar. (single sheet) David Rogers, for picking J. Pollard's pocket of a black leather book, containing seven guineas in gold. 1801 Sporting Mag. 18 64/2 One gentleman had his pocket picked of a book, containing Bank Bills to the amount of fifty-two pounds. 1817 W. Bates Mysterious Stranger 29 The man examined his pocket book, and was seen to burn several papers, and at last, threw the book into the fire and burned it up. 1866 Anecd. Bk.: Moral & Relig. 70 He opened the book, counted the notes, and examined the papers. ‘They are all right,’ said he; ‘fifteen notes of a thousand dollars each.’ 1933 Iola (Kansas) Daily Reg. 5 Dec. 3 a/1 ‘Did you lose this?’ Roger held out the billfold. Harkess took the book and looked into it. ‘Why, yes, I did,’ he said. 1955 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. No. 24. 114 Old-timers may still refer to a billfold as a book, clipped back from pocketbook. f. Zoology. In arachnids: the stack of fine parallel lamellae comprising the book gill or book lung (see Compounds 3).gill, lung book: see the first element. ΚΠ 1881 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 21 540 The pectines and the pulmonary books of the former [sc. Scorpio] and the branchial books of the latter [sc. Limulus]. 1937 S. H. Williams Living World ix. 195 The six pairs of plates which comprise the operculum and gills are arranged so as to form a respiratory book. 2003 C. N. Shuster in C. N. Shuster et al. Amer. Horseshoe Crab xi. 284 Rhythmic movements of the appendages..circulate water over the surfaces of the book lamellae. g. Mineralogy. A closely-packed stack of laminar crystals of a mineral, esp. mica. ΚΠ 1893 Wyoming Agric. Exper. Station Bull. No. 14. 190 On the east side..there are many ledges of feldspathic granite.., through which are scattered crystals or books of mica. 1939 G. A. Roush Strategic Mineral Supplies xii. 345 The books are first split into slabs about ¼ inch thick (rifting). 1974 Nature 16 Aug. 562/2 The Clare Castle gneisses... Books of graphite up to 2mm long occur in most specimens. 1995 New Mexico Apr. 23/1 The schist-rich hillsides yield garnets and mica books as well as the legendary fairy crosses. h. In full book of matches. = matchbook n. at match n.² Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > container or holder for tinder or matches tinder-box1530 firebox1555 tinder1570 linstock1575 funk horn1673 spunk-box1721 phosphorus box1792 light box1816 spunk-flask1835 match-bottle1839 matchbox1853 match-pot1856 match-safe1860 punk-box1862 match-stand1873 match holder1884 book1899 safety box1902 matchbook1937 1899 Sunday Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 20 Aug. i. 5/2 The kind of safety matches which are made of paper and sent out in the form of a book..are competing strongly with wax matches in England. In one order 30,000,000 books were sold to Liverpool. 1899 Sunday Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 20 Aug. i. 5/2 The Pabst company..have made a special offer since March 22 to mail 100 books of matches to anyone enclosing two 12-cent stamps. 1937 Pop. Mech. Dec. 38 a/1 To help guard against the other matches in the book catching fire when one is struck, a newly patented match package has an inner flap which covers the heads of the matches. 1962 J. Braine Life at Top v. 88 One of the books of matches I'd taken away from the Savoy. 2008 New Yorker 28 July 41/3 In a popular puzzle known as ‘the candle problem’..subjects are given a cardboard box containing a few thumbtacks, a book of matches, and a candle. †8. = benefit of clergy at clergy n. 6a. Obsolete.With reference to the former requirement that a person claiming benefit of clergy had to demonstrate literacy by reading from a book. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > legal privilege or immunity > applying to clergy clergyc1275 immunity1449 benefit of clergy1488 benefice of clergy1489 benefit of (his) clergy1511 book1537 privilege of clergy1588 1537 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. III. 83 Theruppon every off them prayed ther book, and..the Justices of the Pease that wear at the said Sessions repried the said felons. 1560 H. Machyn Diary (1848) 227 A-nodur..for cuttyng of a purse of iij s. but he was [burnt] in the hand afore, or elles ys boke would have [saved] hym. 1601 R. Yarington Two Lamentable Trag. sig. I2^v Williams and Rachell likewise are convict For their concealement, Williams craues his booke, And so receaves a brond of infamie. 1629 Vse of Law 22 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light Some prisoners haue their bookes and burned in the hand and so delivered... This hauing their bookes is called their Clergie. 1643 C. Herle Answer to Fernes Reply 5 Flat blasphemy without booke. 1710 London Gaz. No. 4739/1 An Act for taking away the Benefit of Clergy in certain Cases, and for taking away the Book in all Cases. 9. Cards. †a. A playing card, esp. when used for gambling. Also (in singular and plural): a pack of cards. Cf. devil's books at devil n. Compounds 3a(c). Obsolete (slang in later use).In quot. c1575 with allusion to book of life n. at Phrases 1e. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] card1463 playing card1480 carte1497 bookc1575 charta1680 broad1789 flat1819 pasteboard1840 paper1842 painted mischief1879 boards1923 c1575 R. Rice Inuectiue againste Vices sig. B.iv Is the waie by plaiyng, and sportyng, or resting of thy wearie bones, with the bones of a paire of Dice, or with a paire of Cardes (otherwise nowe called the bookes of life)? 1608 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light sig. F1 At his strange entrance they being somewhat agast, began to shuffle-away their bookes, but he knowing what cardes they plaid withall, offred to cut, and turnd vp two knaues by this Trick. 1706 S. Centlivre Basset-table iv. 50 Lady Revel. Clean Cards here. Mrs. Sago. Burn this Book, 'thas an unluckly Air... Bring some more Books. 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum at Green How green the cull was not to stag how the old file planted the books. How ignorant the booby was not to perceive how the old sharper placed the cards in such a manner as to insure the game. 1853 W. G. Simms Sword & Distaff xxxvi. 270 ‘Hev' you any books?’ Books meant cards in the vernacular of the forest. 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. Books, (card players), a pack of cards. b. Whist and Bridge. The first six tricks taken by either partnership in a hand. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > actions or tactics > tricks or taking tricks slam1814 little slam1839 book1857 overtrick1885 small slam1887 undertrick1908 heart1909 playing trick1959 1857 T. Frere Hoyle's Games (new ed.) 143 When either two or four play, six tricks make a book. When three play, four tricks make a book. 1910 Mansfield (Ohio) News 4 Mar. 4/3 Every trick over the book is worth ten points instead of two. 2008 D. Galt Teach Yourself Visually Bridge ii. 18 In auction, the first six tricks needed are ‘understood’..and may be referred to as a book. c. North American. In certain games: a set of cards of the same rank or type.With quot. 1893 cf. author n. 3. ΚΠ 1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I Book,..in ‘authors’ and similar games, all the cards of one set. 1898 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 27 Nov. 29/3 When a player has received a complete book or four Bible characters, he must announce that fact and place the book in the center of the table. 1915 Colman's Rural World 5 Oct. 13/2 When the cards are all dealt [in an invented game] each player tries to make a book of four cards. 2005 B. Rigal Card Games for Dummies (ed. 2) iv. 64 Sets: Three or four cards of the same rank (also known as a group or book in North America). 10. a. The script of a play; (also) that part of the script of a musical which contains the spoken dialogue, stage directions, etc., as distinct from the sung lyrics and musical score. Also: spec. = prompt book n. Cf. earlier playbook n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > written or printed text > [noun] > script book1592 script1890 1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte sig. C3 He stood like a..plaier that being out of his part at his first entrance, is faine to haue the booke to speak what he should performe. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Buriasso,..a prompter, or one that keepes the book for plaiers. a1629 F. Bacon Hist. Reigne Henry VIII (1629) 21 None could hold the Booke so well to prompt and instruct this Stage-Play, as she could. 1749 W. R. Chetwood Gen. Hist. Stage 133 After I had wrote out my Part of Massiva, I carried him the Book of the Play to study the Part of King Massinissa. 1879 D. K. Ranous Diary of Daly Débutante 5 Sept. (1910) 6 Old Mr. Moore held the book of the play, and the actors moved slowly about the stage with manuscript copies of their rôles in their hands. 1895 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 2 Feb. 151/2 The play was..pulled to pieces in order that some bad scenery..might destroy all the illusion which the simple stage directions in the book create. 1904 Playgoer Feb. 81/1 (advt.) Music by Hugo Felix. Lyrics by Adrian Ross. Book adapted by Chas. E. Hands. 1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage vi. 82 By the time that the principals are rehearsing regularly again the company are working without their books. 1943 Billboard 10 July 13/2 A musical comedy staged by Richard Kollmar, with book and lyrics by George Marion Jr., and music by Thomas (Fats) Waller. 1970 Times 7 Jan. 9/6 Promises, Promises stands head and shoulders above other current musical offerings,..not simply because it has a witty and intelligent book. 2011 J. McCabe-Juhnke in J. Shailor Performing new Lives viii. 135 I've spent time with my book, and with others, to be sure I know the lines. But that doesn't do any good when Larry blows his lines. b. The words to which music is set, esp. when published separately; the libretto of an opera, oratorio, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > opera > [noun] > libretto testo1724 book1733 libretto1741 book of words1785 scena1788 wordbook1862 text1891 1733 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 611/2 The Book of the Opera of Opera's: Or Tom Thumb the Great. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 180 A small pamphlet, it might be the book of the opera. 1882 Daily News 18 July 2/2 Tuneful gems of a work which deserved a stronger book. 1921 C. Engel Alla Breve xiv. 191 During the following winter, Wagner wrote the book of ‘Die Meistersinger,’..he began to compose the music at Bieberich, on the Rhein, in 1862. 1992 Contemp. Theatre Rev. 1 51 Boris Krevchenko..wrote the book of the opera based on the complete text of Alexander Pushkin's fairy tale About the Priest and His Servant Balda. c. Chiefly Jazz. The repertoire or sheet music of a band or musician. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > sheet music > repertoire of book1939 1939 New Republic 17 May 47 If the road man wanted to pack Ziggy's book half an hour before the show broke he would say yeah, yeah, yeah. 1944 Billboard 2 Sept. 20/3 Boyd Raeburn is adding 40 new hot arrangements to his book as a result of the Palisades (N.J.) Park fire which destroyed much of the band's music. 1968 G. Schuller Early Jazz vi. 273 Carter, in Keep a Song in Your Soul,..fashioned one of the great arrangements in the Henderson book. 2002 K. Mathieson Cookin' 136 The pianist contributed a great deal of material to the band's book in his long tenure with them. 11. Betting. a. A record of the bets accepted by a person (esp. a bookmaker), originally kept in a notebook. In early use also: a book recording the bets made by a person; = betting-book n. at betting n.¹ Compounds. to open a book: to invite or accept bets, offer odds (on possible outcomes of an event). Cf. to make (a) book at make v.¹ 17d, to run a book at run v. 81d. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > book-maker's equipment > betting book or slip book1714 betting-book1813 betting-slip1927 handbook1946 horse-book1962 1714 G. Lockhart Mem. Affairs Scotl. 215 The Articles themselves were kept a mighty Secret, no Copies being allow'd of them, and in England a Proclamation emitted, prohibiting all Books and Wagers on that Subject. 1812 Sporting Mag. 40 70/1 This is the exact statement of my bets, as my book left with Mr. Smith, Clerk of the Subscription-Betting-Room, at Tattersall's, for the inspection of the public, will prove. 1836 B. Disraeli Henrietta Temple III. xv. 196 Go and take all the odds you can get upon Goshawk. Come, now, tomorrow you will tell me you have a very pretty book. 1869 J. Greenwood Seven Curses London vi. xxii. 294 The pretty pair may with impunity renounce all responsibility, and open a book on the next race on the programme. 1926 Pop. Mech. Oct. 581/1 Reduce the odds offered to fractions, add up, and the result, if it was an honest book, at fair odds (which no book can be, if the bookmaker is to earn his living) should total one. 1988 J. Stevenson Fair Deal in Betting (Sporting Life) (ed. 2) 27 A book would be severely out of balance if the bookmaker were to be held to the prices he had laid for the other horses while the withdrawn horse was still in the market and the money for it in his satchel. 2002 Church Times 11 Jan. 3/4 Books were opened on who would be the next Archbishop of Canterbury just hours after the announcement that Dr Carey was to retire. b. colloquial (Australian, New Zealand, and U.S.). = bookmaker n. 3. Cf. bookie n.² ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > book-making > book-maker commission agent1798 flash-man1812 bookmaker1833 commissioner1851 ring man1857 metallician1861 street bookmaker1867 bookie1877 book1881 knight of the pencil1885 handbook man1894 street bookie1911 turf accountant1915 listman1922 1881 Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Jan. 5/1 Then comes a hoarse roar from the books. ‘Three to one you don't name it.’ 1891 Truth (Sydney) 11 Jan. 5/7 It must be evident to those who are not blind that bona fide bookmakers must soon cease to attend pony meetings; and experience shows that when the ‘books’ begin to leave, the game is up. 1900 C. L. Cullen Taking Chances 16 The books give them the cold-storage countenance and say, ‘Nix, no more’. 1972 E. Grogan Ringolevio 13 The books had promised a third of the take to whichever side won. 1981 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 21 June 23 (headline) Books pay out—with a smile. 2000 G. V. Higgins At End of Day 52 If you hit a run of bad luck bettin' on the ponies with Tommy the Book..that'd mean you'd have to tell the wife, and she didn't know you bet? 12. With the. A (notional) rule book or instruction manual; (hence) the way things are usually or conventionally done. See also by the book at Phrases 2e. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] > regulation > a regulation or rule > book of ordinala1393 rule book1586 book of rules1639 book1848 book of words1929 1848 Cultivator May 143/1 Gentlemen..owning from 50 to 200 acres of land near a good market, may farm it according to the book. 1872 Philadelphia Photographer June 193/2 The old medical professor, who practiced according to the book, and who..cautioned them to beware of those dangerous innovations. 1932 N. Y. Herald Tribune 22 May (Mag.) 8/4 Mr. Lewis..is one of those [bridge] players who is not ‘a slave to the book’, but will use unusual measures in unusual situations. 1950 Sunday Sun (Baltimore) 7 May c12/1 As a video interviewer today, she says she has thrown away the book on ‘How to Ad Lib’. 1968 A. Diment Great Spy Race i. iii. 32 They keep rigidly to the book down here. 1996 J. McCormick & S. Fisher-Hoch Level 4: Virus Hunters of CDC ii. 29 I decided that this investigation needed to be done according to the book. 13. slang (originally U.S.). The maximum penalty or charge for a person accused of criminal activity. Chiefly in to throw the book at a person: to charge a person with every possible offence; to sentence a person as severely as possible; also in extended use. Also to get (also do) the book: to be imprisoned for the maximum term for a crime. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > charge, accuse, or indict [verb (transitive)] > with all offences to throw the book at a person1908 society > authority > punishment > [verb (intransitive)] > receive punishment > be punished severely to buy the bargain dear1352 smart1534 sweata1625 to nap it1699 to get it1805 to catch or get Jesse1839 to get (also catch, take) it in the neck1881 to get beans1893 to get (also do) the book1928 1908 J. Hopper & F. R. Bechdolt 9009 i. 7 You'll wish they'd handed you the book and you'd been hung. 1911 G. Bronson-Howard Enemy to Society iii. 42 As soon as they finds you've got no political pull, the judges and all git very moral; throw the book at you and tell you to add up the sentences in it. 1928 R. J. Tasker Grimhaven (1929) i. 11 I'm doing one life jolt, and two one-to-fiftys..—yes sir, doing the book. 1939 Los Angeles Times 14 Nov. ii. 11/3 The commission threw the book at him by grounding him for 25 racing days. 1961 J. Heller Catch-22 (1962) viii. 74 He was formally charged with ‘breaking ranks while in formation, felonious assault, indiscriminate behaviour, mopery, high treason, provoking, being a smart guy, listening to classical music, and so on’. In short, they threw the book at him. 1975 Bull. (Sydney) 26 Apr. 44 Dead set the best bake in history they give me and I got the book for a shit pot dud. 2005 Independent 10 Oct. 28/4 They can add all sorts of other charges..they don't have to throw the book at him at the beginning. 14. U.S. Sport. Accumulated knowledge or experience of an opposing player or team's performance, strengths, weaknesses, etc. Also in extended use: the relevant facts about something; inside knowledge, the lowdown. ΚΠ 1952 N.Y. Times 31 Dec. 18/7 ‘They didn't have no weaknesses,’ growled Yogi... ‘We had the book on every hitter and we'd gone over them thoroughly.’ 1955 R. Graziano & R. Barber Somebody up there likes Me ii. 120 Back in the Tombs, they gave me the book on this joint, Coxackie. 1971 Boys' Life Mar. 66/2 As a scorer, the Goose had one weakness: He always tried to be the perfectionist... Goalies had the ‘book’ on him. 1985 E. Leonard Glitz 55 You could always deal with guys at the top. But little guys with wild hairs up their ass, there was no book on guys like that. 2012 J. Roenick J.R.: My Life as most Outspoken Man in Hockey 271 As a shooter, I had no book on him. You would shoot high, and he would throw up a glove or pad and stop you. Phrases P1. Noun phrases, chiefly with of. a. book of account n. (also book of accounts) an account book, a ledger; = sense 2b. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book book of account1444 accounts book1461 counting-book15.. accounting booka1555 account book1590 count-book1607 codicila1704 viewbook1718 bill-book1774 stock book1835 account ledger1879 1444 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) V. 126/1 The Rolles and bokes of accompt of the Baillifs. 1484 in J. Gairdner Lett. Reigns of Richard III & Henry VII (1861) I. 85 The bookes of accomptes..[are to] be alway in the handes of the said auditours for their presidence. 1558 P. Morwen tr. A. ben David ibn Daud Hist. Latter Tymes Iewes Commune Weale f. xxiii^v Thei burnte his bokes of accompts & billes of debts euerychone yt were in his palaice. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Erasmus in Panoplie Epist. 343 F. G. who is so deepely in your bookes of accountes. a1613 T. Bodley in I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. (1817) 1st Ser. III. 169 (modernized text) Let all these riches be treasured up..in good writings and books of account. 1683 J. Locke Let. 26 Aug. (1976) II. 602 I think you were best lock my book of accounts up in my scriptor when you go out of town. 1728 Stamford Mercury 4 Jan. 8/2 A Book of Accounts relating to the Business of..Anthony Nicholes, Cheese-Factor. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. iii. xxiii. 369 Abroad..a man's own books of accounts..with the suppletory oath of the merchant, amount at all times to full proof. 1828 J. Jervis & E. Younge Rep. Cases Court of Exchequer I. 28 The defendant..set forth a schedule containing the dates only of books of account, intitled ‘Easter Books’. 1864 W. P. Fessenden in Times 24 Dec. 8/5 The power to compel an exhibit of books of account. 1928 R. G. Williams Elem. Bk.-keeping xiv. 240 The preparation of the statement of affairs may possibly depend upon information which is not supplied by the books of account. 1997 Accountancy Apr. 20/3 The right of shareholders to inspect books of account, whether or not it was widely exercised, was considered an essential component of the system of accountability. b. Book of God n. (also God's book; in early use also †God's books) a holy book, esp. the Bible or the Qur'an. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > [noun] Holy Writc900 writeOE God's bookOE writOE bookOE Biblea1300 holy lettrurec1330 scripturec1330 the (sacred or holy) writings1340 gospel1393 worda1425 escripture1489 Holy Write1508 theologya1513 the written word1533 Book of God1548 oracle1548 hand biblea1680 good book1740 sacred book1782 the sacred volume1850 bibliotheca1879 Kitab1885 OE Blickling Homilies 21 Gehyron we nu..hwæt awriten is on Godes bocum. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxxv. 300 Se ðe god lufað and men, he hylt ealle godes bec. c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 140 Ac he us þa bysene onstealde þæt we sceolon yfelræ mannæ hate..forberæn, and symle Godes bocæ teachunge ȝeorne fylȝean. 1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. A.ii All thinges that are written in Goddes boke. 1581 P. Wiburn Checke or Reproofe M. Howlets Shreeching f. 175 Wherefore be aduised, Leaue this hollow hollownes of poperie, Embrace Christes true religion prescribed and described in Gods book. 1591 H. Smith Restit. Nabuchadnezzer sig. B3 They which vnderstand not yet what is the booke of God, are but horse and mule, though they beare the visors of men. a1649 T. Shepard Parable Ten Virgins (1660) i. xiii. 130 What is this but to take from Gods Book, and he that so doth, God will blot him out of the Book of Life. 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 191 I have by my sins run a great way into Gods Book . View more context for this quotation 1718 S. Ockley Hist. Saracens (ed. 2) I. 371 Abu Obeidah..came to Ali, and ask'd him, If he would take the Government upon him, upon Condition that he should be obliged to administer according to what was contained in the Book of God. ?1882 J. A. Allen True & Romantic Love-story Col. & Mrs. Hutchinson 67 Our love was, as our life, predestinate, Sure, from the first, writ in the book of God. 1967 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Grain of Wheat ii. 13 Its origins can, so the people say, be traced to the day the whiteman came to the country, clutching the book of God in both hands. 2004 Foreign Affairs Jan. 50 We demand from the Shi'ite youth that they return to the book of God and the Sunna of Muhammad. c. Book of Hours n. (also with lower-case initials) historical a devotional book of a type popular in the later Middle Ages, spec. one intended for private reading and meditation by the laity and containing prayers or offices appointed for certain hours of the day, days of the week, seasons, etc.; cf. primer n.¹ 1.A characteristic feature of many surviving medieval books of hours is their rich and colourful illumination, often depicting seasonally appropriate activities.Also shortened to hours (see hour n. 5). ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > other books > [noun] > devotional book primer1378 ordinarya1475 rosary1525 diurnal?a1550 Book of Hours1709 1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xix. 227 This Book doth Mr.Cosins mention in the Preface to his Book Of Hours, Entitled, A Collection of Private Devotions in the Practice of the Ancient Church. 1773 Catal. Museum Curiosities James West 21 A most curious Book of Hours, with illuminations of the finest colouring. 1848 Rambler 19 Aug. 368/1 The books of Hours for the use of the faithful did not contain the Ordinary of the Mass. A translation into the vulgar tongue of the Canon of the Mass would have been regarded as a profanation. 1921 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. 48 260 The ‘Books of Hours’ or ‘Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis’..received their name from the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary which forms the most important part of these laymen's prayer books. 1964 Time 25 Dec. 40/3 Some of the medieval age's greatest treasures are its books of hours... These Christian almanacs are crammed with prayers, psalms, and calendars of saints' days. 2008 K. Swift Morville Hours (2009) 41 The Bodleian Library's most precious Book of Hours—known as the Breviary of Henry VII or the Hours of the Fastolf Master, sumptuously illuminated in France in about 1440-50 for a wealthy English patron. d. book of lading n. now historical a book recording details of cargoes carried. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > cargo > book or list of cargo > bill of lading, etc. cargason1588 bill of lading1599 cargo1678 book of lading1806 shipping-bill1833 1806 Bibliotheca Manuscripta Lansdowniana I. 140 Vol. XXXVI.—Lot. 36..Fol...4. John Bland's Book of Lading, with the certificates of the Provisions he hath sent from Chester and Bristol to Dublin, 1582. 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 130 Book of lading, book kept by the master of a vessel, containing particulars of the cargo. 1926 Yale Law Rev. 35 55 The book of lading was not originally in any sense a contract or evidence of it. 2002 E. T. Laryea Paperless Trade v. 64 The modern bill of lading started as an excerpt from an entry in a book of lading maintained by carriers. e. book of life n. (also †book of livers, book of (the) living, †life's book, †life's books) (in biblical language and allusive use) a record of the names of those to be rewarded with eternal life. [In book of life after post-classical Latin liber vitae (Vulgate, e.g. Philippians 4:3, Revelation 20:12), itself after Hellenistic Greek βίβλος ζωῆς, βιβλίον ζωῆς (New Testament: Philippians 4:3, Revelation 20:12, respectively); in book of livers, book of the living after post-classical Latin liber viventium (Vulgate, e.g. Psalm 68:29).] ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > imaginary or reputed book book of lifeOE book1561 tome1610 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) ii. 192 Þæt ure naman beon awritene on lifes bec mid his gecorenum. OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 22 Sept. 215 Þa oðra noman syndon awritene on heofenum on lifes bocum. OE Hymns (Durh. B.iii.32) xcv. 8 in I. Milfull Hymns of Anglo-Saxon Church (1996) 351 Nostraque simul nomina in libro vitae conserat : & ure samod naman on bec lifes he gesette. a1300 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Jesus Oxf.) 376 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 71 On him heo schullen fynden al þat mon may luste And on lyues bee [read bec; a1225 Digby in liue boc] iseon al þat heo her nusten. c1300 St. Mark (Laud) 32 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 363 Þi name is i-write in eche boke of liue. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms lxviii. 29 Fro the boc of lyueres [L. de libro viventium]. a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) lxviii. 33 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 200/1 Of boke of liuand [L. de libro viventium] be þai done awai. a1450 Lessons of Dirige (Digby) 111 in J. Kail 26 Polit. Poems (1904) 111 In bok of lyf þo þat be named To ioye of heuene mon be sent. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cxlvi. §4. 484 All thaire namys ere writen in the boke of life. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxviii. D Let them be wyped out of ye boke of the lyuinge, & not be written amonge the rightuous. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iii. 194 If euer I were traitour, My name be blotted from the booke of life . View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Rev. iii. 5 I will not blot out his name out of the booke of life [Gk. ἐκ τῆς βίβλου τῆς ζωῆς] . View more context for this quotation 1684 T. Hockin Disc. God's Decrees 359 Some bold Fiduciaries..confidently pretend that their names are certainly written in the Book of Life. a1711 T. Ken Preparatives for Death in Wks. (1721) IV. 102 Each Grain of Charitable Gold, Is in the Book of Life enroll'd. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 161/1 A prophet ought not to pronounce against their nation the prophecies with which he was inspired; but was rather to beg of God to expunge his name out of the book of the living. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd III. ix. ix. 293 It was as if he stood face to face in the presence, confessing every sin that the recording angel had written in the ancient volume of the Book of Life against him. 1898 K. Drumgoold in H. L. Gates Six Women's Slave Narr. (1988) 10 A few years later and mother's name was enrolled in the Lambs' Book of Life, for she gladly answered to the roll call and fell asleep in the arms of Jesus. 1934 in J. A. Lomax & A. Lomax Amer. Ballads xvi. 411 No maverick or slick will be tallied In that great book of life in His home. 2000 T. LaHaye & J. B. Jenkins Mark xix. 347 To me the Book of the Living is a picture of the mercy of God. f. book of rates n. now historical a book listing official valuations of commodities, esp. for tax or customs purposes. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > book book of rates1565 toll-book1607 1565 Ordinance Bk. Merchants of Staple (Staple Company of Eng.) (1937) 120 The clerke..shall..enter every mans parcelle..into a booke of sales called the booke of rates. 1580 R. Hakluyt in Princ. Navigations (1599) I. 441 Take with you the booke of Rates, to the ende you may pricke all those commodities there specified. 1651 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 119. 1850 According to the price of corn, and Book of Rates. 1729 Warkworth Vestry Minutes 14 Apr. in S. Webb & B. Webb Eng. Local Govt. (1906) I. vi. 216 Twice and a half the book of rates for or upon account of the poor for this running year. 1764 H. Wilmot Let. 3 Mar. in Jenkinson Papers (1949) 269 Paneels are not called sugar in the Book of Rates. 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 130 Book of rates, books specifying the customary duties on all goods payable at the Custom-House. 1912 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 26 766 The Book of Rates of 1583 explicitly states that the rates, or official valuations for customs purposes, were issued by Queen Mary in the first year of her reign. 2010 N. Zahedieh Capital & Colonies i. 12 Most goods were taxed at the official valuations given in the book of rates..and thus no value was recorded in the portbooks. g. book of rules n. a book containing rules or regulations concerning a particular matter or for a specific organization; also figurative in later use; = rule book n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] > regulation > a regulation or rule > book of ordinala1393 rule book1586 book of rules1639 book1848 book of words1929 1639 Distiller of London 2 His Maiesty hath therein given speciall command, That a Book of Rules and Directions concerning Distillation of Strong-waters, &c. and making Vinegars, &c. should be compiled, and by us approved and allowed. 1706 Daily Courant 1 Apr. 2/2 A Book of Rules to direct young Beginners in their stating the usual occurrences in Trade. 1818 Some Acct. Establishment Savings Bank, School-street, Dublin 17 The rules for the management of such institutions..shall be entered in a book,..which book of rules shall be open at all seasonable times for the inspection of persons making deposits in the funds of such institutions. 1938 Chicago Sunday Tribune 9 Oct. (Graphic section) 5/2 It may very well be that the hat that does most for the tall, striking girl is one of the new mad numbers that fly up a foot in the air. In that case she should tear up the book of rules and buy the hat! 1957 J. Osborne Look Back in Anger iii. ii. 88 Helena You've more right to be here than I. Alison Oh, Helena, don't bring out the book of rules. 2009 Western Mail (Nexis) 6 Jan. 8 Lawn tennis was invented at Nantclwyd Hall, near Ruthin, by the..owner, who went on to..patent..the game, publish a book of rules, and market a kit of racquets, balls, a net and posts. h. book of service n. now rare a service book (see service n.¹ Compounds 2). ΚΠ ?1498 J. Alcock In die Innocencium Sermo (de Worde) sig. bij/1 The fourme and the maner how that we sholde worshyp and loue almyghty god in the thre ages..Is shewed to vs by a prety conceyte of our comyn kalender, in euery boke of seruyce. 1566 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 84 A mass booke portas wythe all other bookes of saruys. 1857 Harper's Mag. Dec. 28/1 After the reading came the Liturgy (the book of service being a translation into Tamil of the amended Common Prayer used by the English Unitarians). 1977 Guardian 4 Feb. 7/7 This alternative prayer book will be the Church's first official composite book of service since 1662. 2009 Eng. Lit. Renaissance 39 373 This statute clearly articulates..the need..to prevent Cranmer's Prayer Book from having to compete with any other reformed books of service. i. book of the film n. (also book of a film) a version in book form of the script or story of a cinema film; (also) the book upon which a film is based. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > book of film book of the film1929 1929 H. G. Wells King who was King (subtitle) The Book of a Film. 1932 Q. D. Leavis Fiction & Reading Public i. i. 16 The filmgoer wishes also to read the book of the film, and the reader to see the picture. 1955 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Sept. 560/3 Those who would give us the great classics of Greece and Rome in the ‘rude language’ shorn of all ‘superflue’ of some rewritten book-of-the-film. 2008 Film Hist. 20 150/2 The..bookshop..stank to high heaven but we found several ‘goodies’ including an early book-of-the-film, Ultus (1916), possibly the first British spy-thriller. j. book of the month n. a book chosen by a club, publication, etc., as the most outstanding during a particular month; frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > best book of month book of the month1846 1846 Almanack of Month Jan. 38 This [sc. Dickens' Cricket on the Hearth] is something more than the book of the month, for it is, par excellence, the book of the year. 1933 F. R. Leavis & A. D. H. Thompson Culture & Environment 42 The Committee select their ‘books of the month’. 1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end iv. 52 The mezzo-brow ‘Book of the Month’ choice of the dailies. 1947 Horizon Oct. 4 Book-of-the-month clubs. 2001 Book Mar. 53/1 The book..is a Book of the Month Club Main Selection and has had its foreign rights already sold in five countries. k. book of words n. (also book of the words) (a) the libretto of an opera, etc. (cf. sense 10b); (b) colloquial any written or printed record or set of rules or instructions; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > opera > [noun] > libretto testo1724 book1733 libretto1741 book of words1785 scena1788 wordbook1862 text1891 society > authority > control > [noun] > regulation > a regulation or rule > book of ordinala1393 rule book1586 book of rules1639 book1848 book of words1929 1785 C. Burney Acct. Musical Performances 24 This performance was called an oratorio; but in examining the printed book of the words..it appears that this exhibition was miscellaneous. 1885 G. B. Shaw How to become Musical Critic (1960) 108 A gentleman who carries a bundle of white pamphlets, and cries incessantly ‘Book of the words! Program! Book of the words!’ 1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. ii. ii. 288 Don't say these things. Think 'em but don't put 'em in the book of words. 1930 E. George Down Our Street 1 There was nothink ag'inst me, but I was known to frequent bad comp'ny. That's 'ow they put it in the book of words. 1942 P. G. Wodehouse Money in Bank iii. 30 There's nothing in the book of the words to prevent Mrs. Cork having the bozo..stowed away in the cooler, if he's a thief. 2000 M. Springfels in R. W. Duffin Performer's Guide Medieval Music ii. vi. 307 The reciters were expected to appear at these events with a book of words and a fiddle. l. book-to-bill ratio n. Business and Economics the ratio of new orders to completed sales in the semiconductor industry, regarded as an economic indicator for overall trends in the technology sector. ΚΠ 1977 Barron's National Business & Financial Weekly 3 Jan. 43/2 (advt.) New orders continue to run significantly higher than shipments with a book to bill ratio exceeding 1.4 in the third quarter. 1986 Economist 19 Apr. 83/1 The Industry's bellwether, the book-to-bill ratio, has revived to around one to one, which means that chip-makers' order books are no longer shrinking. 2001 S. E. Frank Networth v. 163 A book-to-bill ratio of 1 means the company has as many orders left to fill as it has just filled (in other words, its business is steady). A book-to-bill ratio of less than 1 means business is slowing down, and a book-to-bill ratio of greater than 1 means that business is picking up. P2. a. without (†one's) book (in early use also † bout book): without the aid of a book, from memory, by rote; (figurative) without authority. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > memorization > [adverb] on breastOE bout bookOE by rotea1325 by hearta1387 without (one's) booka1413 par coeura1425 cordially1479 perqueerc1480 cordiala1500 by the book1556 memoriter1612 memorially1660 from memory1856 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > questionable state or quality > state of being unprovable > [adjective] > lacking authority singlec1449 wavering?a1513 without (one's) booka1569 unauthoritative1644 inauthoritative1659 OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) ix. 34 Æfter þam fylige capitel of þæra apostola lare gemyndelice butan bec [a1225 Winteney buten bocc] gesæd. a1300 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 74 Leorny bute bok vych del. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) v. l. 291 This knew he wel y-nough with-oute book. c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 212 Which gouernauncis he schulde kepe whilis he is reding, or vocaly withoute book speking. 1564 Advertmts. in E. Cardwell Documentary Ann. Church Eng. (1839) I. 294 The archedeacon shall appoynte the curates to certaine taxes of the Newe Testamente to bee conde without booke. And at theire nexte synode to exact a rehearsall of them. a1569 A. Kingsmill Viewe Mans Estate (1580) xii. 88 Sainct Paule..speaketh not without booke, but of experience. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 3 You must get it perfectly without booke, to saie it forwards and backwards. 1615 W. Hull Mirrour of Majestie 24 But, in so saying, he spake without his booke. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. iii. 25 He..speaks three or four languages word for word without booke. View more context for this quotation 1692 J. Locke Toleration ii, in Wks. (1727) II. 272 To shew you that I do not speak wholly without Book. a1707 S. Patrick Auto-biogr. (1839) 87 The very prayers of the Liturgy, which I said without book. 1736 Gentleman's Mag. June 334/1 Let the Boys be set a running, as it were, with one another, in getting without Book. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 257 To speak loosely and without book. 1906 R. Whiteing Ring in New xiii. 95 Then Mary, with her head thrown back and her eyes closed, for she knew the whole composition without book, played one of the sublime choruses of nymphs and shepherds. 1992 E. L. Mascall Saraband vi. 130 Having had to memorise the Masonic rites and repeat them without book, he felt obliged to do the same with the Church's Liturgy. †b. to drive (a person) to (a) book: to compel (a person) to give evidence on oath. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > evidence > give evidence of [verb (transitive)] > cause to give evidence on oath to drive (a person) to (a) bookc1450 c1450 (?a1400) T. Chestre Sir Launfal (1930) l. 785 To say þe soþ, without les,..xii knyȝtis were dryue to boke [c1500 Rawl. dreuyn to a boke]. c. †(a) out of a person's books: out of favour with a person. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disfavour > disfavouring [phrase] > out of favour out of a person's books1509 in bad bread1743 in (also into) a person's bad books1832 in the doghouse1926 1509 Parlyament Deuylles (de Worde) sig. A.vi He is out of our bokes, and we out of his. 1566 Earl of Bedford Let. 3 Aug. in W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. (1787) II. App. 434 He is so far out of her books, as at her going out of the Castle of Edinburgh, to remove abroad, he knew nothing thereof. 1673 Bp. S. Parker Reproof Rehearsal Transprosed 490 I verily believe to have trumpeted this in his Majesty's ears (as much as I am out of your Books for it). 1795 J. Cobb Cherokee ii. 27 I have quite done with her;—She's out of my books, I have erased her name, for she has used me cursed ill. 1871 C. H. Pearson Young Pioneers of North-West xv. 173 You'll set that down as a fib, I'm afraid, and mark me out of your books. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. ix. 117 I am rather out of her books just now, but you will be quite in favor if you treat her live-stock well. (b) in (also into) a person's good books (also † in (also into) a person's books): in (or into) favour with a person. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > favour > in favour [phrase] in (also into) a person's books1618 well1670 in good standing with1755 in (also into) a person's good books1839 1618 T. Adams Happines of Church 90 By this Booke I thinke he meanes Gods fauour: as we vsually say, to be in a mans fauour, is to be in his bookes. 1676 Modest Acct. Wicked Life Lodowick Muggleton A little before Oliver's Death, Muggleton, by continual Flatteries, had got into his Books. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxi. 304 If you want to keep in the good books in that quarter, you had better not call her the old lady. 1894 Argosy Jan. 40 He wished to coax his mother, and be in her good books. 1938 J. Masefield Dead Ned 284 You'd ought to be careful with the judy. It's best to keep in her good books. 1957 Times of India 1 Oct. 6/3 I had to work my way into the good books of an elder brother was a ‘working man’ and therefore rich, beyond my dreams of avarice. 1980 M. Frayn Make & Break i, in Plays: One (1985) 290 If you want to get in his good books, talk to him about spaniels... His wife breeds them. 2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane 262 Since defying her wishes and agreeing to allow Razia to go up to Cambridge, he was not exactly in her good books. (c) in (also into) a person's bad books: in (or into) disfavour with a person. See also black book n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disfavour > disfavouring [phrase] > out of favour out of a person's books1509 in bad bread1743 in (also into) a person's bad books1832 in the doghouse1926 1832 New Sporting Mag. Oct. 439/1 It is windmill holiday, and the old ‘milner’, with flourless face and unpowdered coat, travels incognito among his customers, coming suddenly upon some of them who are in his bad books. 1861 W. S. Perry Hist. Church Eng. I. xii. 403 The Arminians, who at that time were in his bad books. 1940 M. Dickens Mariana iv. 110 Geoff, I must go, I daren't get in the old trout's bad books at this stage. 1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) x. 281 Let us not come into your bad books, if that's at all possible. 2002 BusinessWeek 22 July 50/1 Like most media companies, Pearson is now in investors' bad books. †d. out of one's book (also books): out of one's reckoning, mistaken. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [adjective] erringa1340 overseena1393 willa1400 out of one's book (also books)1549 straying1553 faulting1566 deceived1569 seek1569 tripping1577 amiss1582 mistaking1582 naught1597 errant1609 solecistical1654 solecismical1656 wrong1695 solecistic1865 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie sig. Diiij If you folowe theym, you are oute of youre boke. 1602 Bp. M. Smith Learned Serm. Worcester 11 Why he should be so odious to him, and so farre out of his bookes. e. by the book (also †by book): (in early use) in a set manner, by rote; formally; (later) conventionally, in accordance with the rules (cf. sense 12). Also attributive: that follows the rules, conventional. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > memorization > [adverb] on breastOE bout bookOE by rotea1325 by hearta1387 without (one's) booka1413 par coeura1425 cordially1479 perqueerc1480 cordiala1500 by the book1556 memoriter1612 memorially1660 from memory1856 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > conformity to or with a pattern, etc. > in conformity with or according to [phrase] > according to rule by the book1556 in form1703 1556 E. Bonner Honest Instr. Bringinge vp Children Pref. sig. A.ii^v To knowe by the boke, & thereby to auoyde, the seuen deadly synnes. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. v. 109 You kisse by the booke . View more context for this quotation a1658 J. Cleveland Vituperium Uxoris in Wks. (1687) 269 She..To scold by Book will take upon her, Rhetorically chide him. 1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green 69 Furth started neist a pensy Blade, And out a Maiden took, They said that he was Falkland bred, And danced by the Book. 1843 E. A. Poe Murders in Rue Morgue in Prose Romances 11 To have a retentive memory, and to proceed by ‘the book’, are points commonly regarded as the sum total of good playing. 1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 148/2 You can't bring a baby up by book. 1965 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 10 Jan. 11 b/3 His by-the-book approach to code enforcement. 1986 E. E. Scharff Worldly Power xiii. 235 His writing had always been plodding, say editors, and he was considered a by-the-book sort of bureau chief. 2005 N.Y. Mag. 23 May 26/2 He co-wrote a memoir in 1992..a hackneyed..tale of a cage-rattler who bucked the system and never did anything by the book. f. to be (deep, far, etc.) in (or into) a person's books and variants: to owe a person money; to get into debt with a creditor. Now rare. ΚΠ a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. f.iii For though their apparell be neuer so fine, Yet sure their credit is farre worse then mine: And by cocke I may say, for all their hie lookes, I know some stickes full deepe in Marchants bookes. 1611 R. Fenton Treat. Vsurie ii. vii. 67 If a man once begin to sinke into his [sc. a usurer's] bookes, he will sucke him vp like a gulfe. 1640 H. Mill Nights Search lii. 256 Being run so far into her books, They're in distresse: the principall with use She'le make them pay. 1734 H. Fielding Don Quixote in Eng. i. x. 18 He is far enough in my Books already. 1752 W. Chaigneau Hist. Jack Connor II. vii. 60 I believe..I am pretty deep in your Books.—The last Christening consum'd a deal of Wine. 1856 Melbourne Punch 7 Apr. 1/3 I am favorable to state aid to religion, as otherwise ministers of the Gospel would get pretty deep into the books of retail tradesmen. 1913 Agric. Cooperation & Rural Credit in Europe (63rd U.S. Congr. 1st Sess. Senate Doc. 214) 483 The shopkeeper..can establish a more effective..control of the farmer's industry. Once well in his books the farmer without capital is his creature, and in due time too often his victim. g. on (also upon) the books. (a) On a register of members, clients, patients, etc. Cf. to take (also strike, etc.) off the books at Phrases 2k(a). ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > [adverb] in scripturec1400 on (also upon) the books1714 1714 J. Egleton Vindic. Commons rejecting Treaty Nav. Pref. 4 Whether a Person in Court, who had been enter'd on the Books as polling for all the Candidates, should not lose his Vote. 1788 H. Watson in Med. Communications 2 258 She..continued on the books as an out-patient. 1858 J. Graham Jerusalem, its Missions, Schools, Converts, &c. under Bishop Gobat 44 He..saw the head-master, and the house-master, and found that..the lad was down on the books as having entered at Whitsunday 1854. 1887 Sun (Baltimore) 25 Oct. 1/8 Not a single bogus or fictitious name was shown upon the books. 1973 P. Arnold & C. Davis Hamlyn Bk. World Soccer 217/1 Portsmouth, in the sixties, were among the first to employ a first-team squad only, with about fifteen players on the books. 2002 V. Coren & C. Skelton Once more, with Feeling xx. 147 So we need a bisexual: handsome, young, blond, innocent..and on the books of a professional porn agency. (b) Of a law: in force. Cf. sense 3c, on the statute books at statute book n. Phrases. ΚΠ 1754 Universal Advertiser 21 Feb. 134 I desire to know by what Law? There is no such express Law on the Books. 1845 Universalist Watchman 15 Nov. 139/3 Nearly all the partialist clergy will do all in their power to keep the law on the books. 1896 Atlanta Constit. 23 Jan. 3/4 It did more to check the ways of the toughs there than did the laws upon the books. 1930 Jrnl. Farm Econ. 12 360 When emergencies arise, it is a good time to put basic needed legislation on the books. 1980 Sci. Amer. Apr. 63/3 Texas, which already has such a capital-punishment law on the books, currently ranks second in the nation, with 119 on death row. 2011 New Yorker 2 May 31/1 The Royal Marriages Act of 1772, which is still on the books, forbids any member of the Royal Family to marry without her [sc. the Queen's] permission. h. (a) to close (also shut) the books: (of a business, etc.) to make no further entries to an account, typically as a temporary measure at the end of a fiscal period; (also) to suspend business operations. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > [verb (transitive)] > impede, restrict, or suspend trade > esp. business operations to close (also shut) the books1695 1695 Abstr. Proposals for Bank on Tickets of Million-adventure (single sheet) A Committee of 24 Managers is to be chosen by the General Meeting within five Days after closing the Books, and then the present Trustees to deliver the Tickets and Money to the said Committee, and to be discharged of their Trust. 1773 Town & Country Mag. Aug. 443/2 All the officers of œconomy in that duchy are to close their books, and Danish officers are to be placed in their stations. 1787 W. Combe Anderson's Hist. Origin Commerce (rev. ed.) II. 236 As they shut their books twice in a year, for a few days, to strike a general balance, their true capital is then certainly known. 1804 J. Barrow Acc. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–98 II. 380 The number of these loan farms registered in the office of the receiver of the land revenue, on closing the books in 1798, were..1832. 1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. Feb. 46 The oldest merchants are ‘shutting their books’, as they express it. 1903 System June 79/1 They have found it desirable that each month's business be kept separate, so they take a trial balance and close the books every month. 1952 Financial Times 2 Apr. 6/7 Within those six months prices dropped 20s a pound, with the natural result that buyers of yarn and cloth completely shut their books and ceased to operate. 2013 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 26 June 36 My experience is bond rates can move back quite quickly... Who knows what they will be in three days' time when we close the books. (b) to close (also shut) the book(s) on: to draw a line under (a difficult or distressing issue, situation, etc.); to expend no further energy on (something), to resolve not to engage in further discussion or consideration of. ΚΠ 1811 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1809: Proc. India House 221/1 Mr. Peter Moore thought it would be much the best way to close the book on what was past, and turn down the leaf. 1905 Daily Nevada State Jrnl. 9 Sept. 8/3 The [funeral] services will be conducted by Rev. Mr. Darneille. This will close the book on one of the most brutal murders on record. 1929 N.Y. Times 2 Aug. 1/2 It seemed to me more satisfactory, more dignified, to tell the story of the last eight years once and for all and close the book on those pages of my life and work. 1944 Billboard 20 May 67/1 When he sold his World Famous California Bears animal-act, he shut the book on a career of 18 years. 1981 D. Shapiro Autonomy & Rigid Char. v. 114 The masochistic person cannot permit himself to close the books on old grievances. 1999 N. Haugerud Jailhouse Stories 123 After nearly an hour and a half of questioning I'd given up on getting anything out of Pee Wee, so I stood up ready to close the book on this part of the investigation. 2012 USA Today (Nexis) 21 Sept. 3 a A scathing internal Justice Department report on a botched gun-trafficking investigation..is not likely to close the book on the scandal. i. colloquial. to speak (also talk) like a book: (a) to speak elegantly; to use literary or pedantic language in conversation; (b) to speak knowledgeably and accurately, with full or precise information. ΚΠ 1714 J. Ozell tr. Molière Don John i. in tr. Molière Wks. VI. 10 Body o' me, how you talk? One would think you had learn't this by Heart; you speak like a Book. 1796 J. Beresford tr. Comtesse de Genlis Knights of Swan I. xi. 75 You must know that Colin, who has travelled so much, speaks like a book. 1829 Massachusetts Spy 28 Jan. You talk like a book, Mr. Bond. 1833 J. Neal Down-easters 26 An educated and travelled Yankee..talking like a book, even to his washerwoman. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel II. vii. xxi. 281 ‘If you can contrive to affect to be angry with him for his extravagance, it will do good.’ ‘You speak like a book, and I'll try my best.’ 1940 H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood i. i. 25 Don't you talk like a book, Mr. Jimmy... Don't you go using long words. 1960 Sunday Times 27 Nov. 11 ‘Speaks Welsh like a book, the professor’—and, what's more, he also writes it like a book though he learnt it late in life. 2006 M. French In Name of Friendship iv. 47 Oh, the way she talks, like a book, she talks in goddamned paragraphs! j. to take a leaf out of a person's book: to base one's conduct on what a person does; to follow a person's example. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (intransitive)] > follow an example borrow?c1225 to walk in (or tread) a person's stepsa1240 to take example from (also by, at, of)c1405 to dance to or after (a person's) pipe, whistle1546 patrizate1623 patrizizea1642 to follow suit1747 to take a leaf out of a person's book1809 pattern1820 1746 R. Seagrave True Protestant 18 Ecclesiastics..shun the Force of the Text, and evade all its Prohibition, by a Leaf out of the Pope's Book; who, with all his magnificent Titles, stiles himself also the Servant of Servants. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. vii. ii. 37 I took a leaf out of their book. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. ii. 32 It is a great pity that some of our instructors in more important matters..will not take a leaf out of the same book. 1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. vii. 106 I'll take a leaf out of her book. 1916 D. Haig Diary 7 Oct. in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 239 It is interesting to see that the French have taken a leaf out of our tactical book! 2007 Daily Tel. 8 Aug. 11/4 Parents thought British hotels should take a leaf out of the American book and allow up to five in a family room. k. off the books. (a) to take (also strike, etc.) off the books: to remove from a register of members, clients, etc. Cf. on (also upon) the books at Phrases 2g. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (intransitive)] > avoid > withdraw (from a task or undertaking) > from a group, game, or competition to take (also strike, etc.) off the books1755 scratch1866 to stand down1874 to drop out1883 1755 Gentleman's & London Mag. Oct. 505/2 It has likewise been ordered, that all out-pensioners belonging to Chelsea hospital..do, on pain of being struck off the books, personally appear. 1795 T. Swift Prison Pindarics 16 When my son came to live in College I found it convenient to live with him in his apartments, and continued to hold possession of them for a long time after his name was taken off the books, conceiving I had a legal title to the same. 1864 Manch. Guardian 25 Oct. 5/3 Considerable dissatisfaction was felt at the request to strike them off the books. a1941 B. L. Coombes War Diary of Welsh Miner in B. Jones & C. Williams With Dust still in his Throat (1999) 172 They knocked him off the books and all the help he could get was one and eightpence a week. 2008 G. Dunford Big Trip 126/1 Many..IT professionals fund their travels by registering with temp agencies... You can take your name off the books to go travelling and then sign back on when you're ready to return. (b) Originally U.S. Esp. with reference to work: without proper documentation or registration, so as to evade taxes or regulations. Also attributive: not declared for tax or accounting purposes; unacknowledged, unofficial, illicit. ΚΠ 1971 Newsday (N.Y.) 21 Dec. 19 a/1 He said..he will ‘go on welfare and work “off the books” someplace’. 1975 Texas Monthly Dec. 124 Camilo Fabrega, regional vice-president..accuses them of scheming to ‘generate an “off the books” source of funds for use by Braniff management’. 1980 E. Ginzberg Employing Unemployed xi. 191 A related problem in the work-income arena is posed by the increasing amount of income that people earn from off-the-books, illicit and illegal sources. 2001 R. Russo Empire Falls (2002) 35 It's against the law... Mrs. Whiting would have a cow if she thought I was doing anything off the books. 2004 U.S. News & World Rep. 21 June 66/1 Taguba wrongly blamed the brigade for holding off-the-books ‘ghost’ prisoners. l. to bring to book: to call to account (chiefly figurative). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > investigate, examine [verb (transitive)] underseekc897 speerc900 lookeOE askOE seeOE teem witnessc1200 seeka1300 fand13.. inquirec1300 undergoc1315 visit1338 pursuea1382 searcha1382 examinec1384 assay1387 ensearchc1400 vesteyea1425 to have in waitc1440 perpend1447 to bring witnessc1475 vey1512 investigate?1520 recounta1530 to call into (also in) question1534 finger1546 rip1549 sight1556 vestigatea1561 to look into ——1561 require1563 descry?1567 sound1579 question1590 resolve1593 surview1601 undersearch1609 sift1611 disquire1621 indagate1623 inspect1623 pierce1640 shrive1647 in-looka1649 probe1649 incern1656 quaeritate1657 inquisite1674 reconnoitre1740 explore1774 to bring to book1786 look-see1867 scrutate1882 to shake down1915 sleuth1939 screen1942 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > make accusation [phrase] > call to account to call to account1434 to call into (also in) question1534 to bring to book1786 1786 Town & Country Mag. Mar. 122/2 She had a relation in the law, who, it is more than probable, entertained a sneaking liking for her; old Square Toes was brought to book. 1799 I. Espinasse Rep. Cases Nisi Prius II. 624 I shall bring him to book, and have him struck off the roll. 1804 Sporting Mag. 23 265/2 'Tis not my business to examine your accounts, Sir—but should I bring you to book..there is something in that sly countenance that tells me you have sometimes staked your credit at too great a venture. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. xv. 131 I'll bring this young man to book. 1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. v. 104 We'll bring Sherborne to book. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 215/1 By means of these figures we bring the matter, as it were, to book, and eliminate tangible results. 1962 Times 6 Apr. 20/3 The housebreakers and hoodlums who plagued the city..were checked by the ‘reasonable force’ which had brought their kind to book in Sheffield. 2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 30 Jan. 36/2 Last year, the city's 30-odd full-time environmental wardens brought 700 people to book for trashing the streets. m. to read (also know) like a book: to know very well, understand perfectly. Hence (with other verbs) like a book: without hesitation or need for further reflection; easily (obsolete). ΚΠ 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. xxvi. 444 I can..read you off, like a book. 1839 C. F. Briggs Adventures Harry Franco I. xi. 73 ‘Know him like a book,’ replied Mr. Lummucks. 1841 Congress. Globe 13 Feb. 148/1 Democrats, he knew, would vote for it [sc. the Pre-emption bill] like a book. 1843 Cleave's Penny Gaz. 15 July Jim made 'em go like a book; every thing worked right. 1844 T. C. Haliburton Attaché 2nd Ser. II. 176 Let a man or woman come and talk to me..and I'll tell you all about 'em right off as easy as big print. I can read 'em like a book. 1902 ‘E. Lyall’ Hinderers ix We ordinary mortals are at the mercy of you artists... You read us like books. 1933 P. G. Wodehouse Mulliner Nights 101 That terrible old woman saw through my subterfuge last night. She read me like a book. 1951 J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye xi. 92 I knew her like a book. I really did. I mean, besides checkers, she was quite fond of all athletic sports. 1999 Washington Post 7 Nov. a26/1 An experienced investigator can often walk through a field of shredded metal and broken bodies and read it like a book. n. to suit a person's book: to be convenient or agreeable to a person; to be in line with his or her plans.Originally a bookmaker's phrase: see sense 11. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > convenience > be convenient [verb (intransitive)] to suit a person's book1827 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > be courteous [verb (intransitive)] > be agreeable to make good visagec1386 to make (rarely bear) fair weatherc1400 to do (also make, play) the agreeable1825 to suit a person's book1827 1827 Bell's Life in London 16 Sept. It would be unjust to throw out an imputation upon any sporting event, without sufficient evidence... Anonymous assertion will not suit our book. 1851 R. I. Murchison Let. 14 Apr. in Lady Prestwich Life Sir J. Prestwich (1899) 83 Would it suit your book to make a run of a day or two to the other side of the Weald? 1852 F. E. Smedley Lewis Arundel vi By which time he expects to be so hard up that he must marry somebody, and as there will be plenty of the needful she will suit his book as well as any other. 1928 Britain's Industr. Future (Liberal Industr. Inq.) 420 The actual results have probably been variable in any given year..to suit the book of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being. 1955 Times 30 Aug. 6/1 Plainly the strikes suit the Communists' book. 2009 F. McLynn Marcus Aurelius 425 Commodus was..venal and would sell anything if the price was right, even allowing murder as part of the transaction if it suited his book. o. to judge a book by its cover and variants: to make assumptions about someone or something based on appearance or on superficial characteristics; to take something at face value. Chiefly in negative contexts, as you can't judge a book by its cover, don't judge a book by its cover. ΚΠ 1708 E. Arwaker Truth in Fiction Pref. p.ii As a Man is not to be judg'd of by his Out-side, any more than a Book by its Title-Page; so Fables are not to be valu'd only as insipid Tales, composed to please Children.] 1869 Radical Apr. 312 To judge the great actors in history by their formal conceptions is to judge a book by its binding. 1872 Building News 16 Feb. 141/3 In reply to ‘Plumber’ I beg to remind him of an old adage, ‘Never judge a book by its cover.’ 1893 N. Wales Chron. 8 Apr. 3/7 Judging by the appearance of the players, I really thought that the Bangor team would fare badly. But we mustn't judge the book by the cover. 1897 N.Y. Times 11 Dec. (Saturday Review section) 1/1 The old admonition ‘do not judge a book by its binding’ is losing its force. 1918 Simmons' Spice Mill Sept. 1156/1 I have learned not to judge a book by its cover entirely when it comes to a store front. 1964 J. Baldwin Blues for Mister Charlie iii. 99 Mr. Evans don't look like that kind of man. You sure can't tell a book by its cover. 1995 C. Bateman Cycle of Violence xi. 171 ‘I don't like the look of you.’ ‘Don't judge a book by its cover,’ Callaghan said, reappearing at the door. 1996 S. Jenkins Cheese Primer 19 Artisanal cheeses are usually much scruffier on the outside than factory-made ones... Choosing a cheese is one of the few times you should judge a book by its cover. 2011 S. Izard Girl in Kitchen iv. 133 I couldn't believe something so gnarly looking could taste so good. Just goes to show, you can't judge a book by its cover. p. colloquial. in the book(s): recorded, in existence. Frequently in every —— in the book. ΚΠ 1897 B. Hall Fish Tails xvii. 173 The oldest rule in the book says that you never know what luck you are going to have. 1921 Locomotive Engineers Jrnl. Feb. 117/1 I've stood on the deck and battled away Like a major with slash bar and hook, To hold up some mill that was having a chill, Yes, tried every trick in the book. 1957 J. Kerouac On the Road ii. vi. 148 That night Marylou took everything [i.e. every drink] in the books. 1959 Listener 31 Dec. 1172/3 Every human evil in the book was thrown at us—cancer, paralysis, famine, gas-chambers. 2011 New Yorker 21 Nov. 72/3 The plants need staking, propping, intensive care. They are prone to every tomato disease in the book. q. to write the book (on): to be the original expert or authority (on something); to set the standard. ΚΠ 1907 G. Ade Slim Princess v. 52 ‘You have traveled a great deal?’ ‘Me and Baedeker and Cook wrote it.’] 1915 G. Bronson-Howard God's Man 128 Jealousy? She wrote the book. 1963 Barron's National Business & Finance Weekly 8 July 3/2 IBM may have written the book on salesmanship. 1989 D. Hagberg Without Honor 187 McGarvey figured the man could write the book on loneliness. 1998 Managed Healthcare Nov. 26 Every day they write the book. Because they work with such a broad array of clients, GeoAccess often reinvents itself. 2013 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 17 Feb. 56 The band wrote the book on how not to make it in the music business. r. for the book(s): that deserves recording for posterity; record-breaking, notable, or remarkable; notorious.Cf. a turn-up for the book(s) at turn-up n. 3b, one for the books at one adj., n., and pron. Phrases 4d. ΚΠ 1924 N.Y. Times 27 Apr. s2/7 (heading) Stevick, club champion.., yesterday accomplished a golf feat for the book. 1937 Washington Post 22 Aug. x. 5/2 Little did Miss Mable B. Kellogg, a local angler, realize the part she was to play in making an oddity for the books. 1942 Chicago Defender 28 Feb. 5/4 It started out a surprise pre-natal but the party..turned out to be a celebration for the books. 1944 S. R. Harris Diary 20 Nov. in B-29s over Japan, 1944–5 (2011) 54 My quarters are something for the books. A 20 x 20 wall tent, screened and floored with porches on two sides and located..at the edge of coral cliffs. 1984 M. Piñero Eulogy for Small Time Thief ii. i, in Sun always shines for Cool 114 Yeah, they wanna be farmers, ain't that something for the book? 1998 N.Y. Times 12 Sept. a10 (heading) For the Congress, the Capital and the Whole Nation, a Day for the Books... The day..was extraordinary,..as the House finished it's furiously partisan face-off on the question of impeaching the President. s. in a person's book: in a person's opinion, as a person sees the matter. Frequently in in my book, in anyone's (also anybody's) book. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > personal opinion > [adverb] in my (also his, their, etc.) sense1591 in a person's regard1598 according to one's lights (also light)1645 in a person's book1934 1934 N.Y. Times 7 May 22/1 It went for only two bases because of a ground rule, but it was a home run in anybody's book. 1942 Billboard 17 Jan. 43/2 Gee!..This manager is okay in my book. He has been furnishing shade, smokes, cold drinks, sandwiches and an electric fan for us players all afternoon. 1966 S. B. Jackman Davidson Affair ii. 13 In his book the function of television was to edify, not to entertain. 1989 Busselton-Margaret (W. Austral.) Times 18 Aug. 40/3 An impressive list in anyone's book. 1992 Guardian 28 Mar. (Weekend Suppl.) 10/2 In George's book, a drink, a few lines, a bit of puff is okay but those E's and stuff like acid turns people into wrong 'uns. 2006 G. Malkani Londonstani xxiv. 296 Remember, it was my Porsche you first rode in. In my book that means you owe me. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. book-birth n. ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball To Rdr. sig. B3^v This bookebirth thus brought foorth by Gerard. 1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 542 The author made one great effort, and died in book-birth—his offspring sharing often the doom of its unhappy parent. 1969 V. Nabokov Ada ii. ii. 342 The brilliant mirages which had risen before him when he felt the first pangs of book-birth on Cordula's terrace..were now fading under the action of prudence. 2007 A. Gibson What is Lit.? xii. 461 Chapter 10 addressed the case of the publisher as Romantic narcissist that suppressed a book-birth. book box n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] book hoardOE book box1689 1584 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 19 A hanging box to putt in Bookes wth locke and kye ijs. vjd.] 1689 R. Hooke Diary 6 Mar. in R. T. Gunther Early Sci. Oxf. (1935) X. 103 Paid Kettle for book box 4s. 1843 J. T. J. Hewlett College Life III. xxix. 73 He kept a supply of worms, maggots, and paste, in his book-box, and every half-holiday slipped out, and..robbed the New River of some of its inhabitants. 1931 Rotarian Mar. 1/2 (advt.) Just mail the coupon and the complete five volumes in the specially designed book-box will be shipped to you. 2005 Crafts Beautiful Feb. 30/2 Apply vintage photo distress ink to the outer surface of the book box and use a tissue to remove the excess. book collection n. ΚΠ 1731 T. Apperley Observ. in Physick 104 Old Authors, Scholastic Ideas and Common-place Book Collections. 1881 Academy 20 Aug. 139/2 His omnivorous taste for reading had led him frequently in late years to the British Museum, the Record Office, and the Athenaeum Library, after exhausting the book collections of Edinburgh. 1949 R. D. Matthews & M. Akrawi Educ. in Arab Countries ix. 154 The book collection is a mixture of old textbooks, courses of study, books on teaching method, and some travel books. 2012 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 26 Jan. d1/1 His book collection is restricted to titles with black, gray or white bindings, and stacked, jacketless, in neat horizontal rows. book contract n. ΚΠ 1878 Calif. Legal Rec. 24 Aug. Index 461/1 The Lights and Shades of a Book Contract. 1940 D. Thomas Let. 20 June (1987) 457 Do try to speed the agents on the new book contract so that I can have some money. It's getting harder to live here. 2002 Vanity Fair June 218/2 The six-figure book contracts. book cover n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > cover forel1393 surpelc1440 covering1459 coverturea1475 heeling1498 lid1585 cover1599 binding1648 book cover1649 case1750 album cover1839 bookcase1885 1649 C. Hoole Easie Entrance Lat. Tongue 271 A book-cover, Opérculum libri. 1796 J. Guy Misc. Sel. I. 63 The wood..will slit so thin that it makes band-boxes, hat-cases, and even book-covers. 1843 E. A. Poe Purloined Let. in Gift 1845 48 We also measured the thickness of every book-cover. 1864 A. Jameson et al. Hist. Our Lord I. 22 The sculptured tablets applied as book-covers to the Sacred Volumes. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 265/2 Drawn on, said of a book cover which is attached by gluing down the back; if the end-papers are pasted down it is said to be drawn on solid. 2005 Financial Times (Nexis) 13 Sept. 10 A committee of 20 people could be involved in deciding the book cover, says Julian Humphries, art director for the more literary press books division of HarperCollins. book critic n. ΚΠ 1759 tr. P. de Coste in C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (ed. 7) I. Pref. to French ed. sig. A7^v Here I must intreat our Book-Criticks to remember, that Montaigne having put a Sense quite new upon several Passages.., I was therefore obliged to transplant Montaigne's Ideas into my Translation. 1857 T. B. Aldrich Daisy's Necklace 18 Barry is fond of wine—but that's a failing not peculiar to genius, and not confined to book-critics. 1919 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 18 480 The author is..a book critic, and has a large acquaintance with the current literature and speech of England and America. 2010 New Yorker 25 Jan. 68/3 ‘This is not a woe-is-me memoir of the sort so much in fashion these days,’ the book critic of the Washington Post wrote recently in an admiring review. book desk n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > desk > [noun] deskc1405 lectern1509 dess1552 book desk1686 prie-dieu1687 bureau1698 secretary1803 toys1816 secretaire1818 consulting-desk1823 slope1833 box-desk1860 roll-top1884 type-desk1901 partners' desk1925 partners' pedestal desk1930 console1944 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 383 The most difficult piece of wood work..was a Book-desk. 1860 N.Y. Herald 23 Apr. 2/3 Woodruff..bought the arsenic in a small vial; I put the vial in Mr. Ramsey's bookdesk. 2007 New Yorker 23 Apr. 48/1 I try to make conversation with the officer at the ‘book desk’ where you can leave reading material for the prisoner you're visiting; he excludes whatever he deems ‘inappropriate’. book fair n. [after German Buchmesse (18th cent. or earlier)] ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > [noun] > sale of specific articles woodsale1479 port-salea1513 boutisalea1627 book sale1797 book fair1798 sight1940 1798 Monthly Mag. Suppl. No. 33, 15 July 513/1 The great diversity of critical essays on language, which continually appear on the Leipzig book-fairs. 1863 W. Waterston Cycl. Commerce at Book Two great book-fairs..held annually at Easter and Michaelmas. 1969 ‘A. Cade’ Turn up Stone i. 10 Michael's previous forays overseas had been limited to..an annual pilgrimage to the Frankfurt Book Fair. 2002 N. Basbanes Among Gently Mad ii. 39 Book fairs run the gamut in size, from modest gatherings of thirty or forty dealers..to larger, more elaborate undertakings that often feature more than two hundred of the most prominent booksellers. book jacket n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > cover > wrapper or loose cover wrapper1806 fall1837 book wrapper1844 jacket1850 book jacket1859 chemise1893 dust cover1902 book folder1925 dust jacket1928 dust-wrapper1932 1859 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 25 Feb. 214/1 As to clothing, I think that I may say for book jackets ‘there it nothing like leather,’ though both vellum and calico are useful agents. 1928 Publishers' Weekly 9 June 2359 Several specimens of modern trade book jackets. 2002 Daily Tel. 25 Sept. 22/4 This genre boils everything down to the picture on the book jacket: lurve in bodices and breeches. book launch n. ΚΠ 1964 Guardian 25 Aug. 4 (headline) Book-launch at the Sycamore. 2000 J. Pemberton Forever & Ever Amen 4 If someone's stupid enough to publish the damn thing then there's..book launches, readings and other such nonsense. Knowing my luck, I say, it'll become a bestseller. book length n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > [adjective] > of the form or length of book book form1622 book length1913 1829 Mechanic's Free Press 28 Nov. 1/1 As we write for a newspaper publication, we shall not swell our tale to a book length. 1913 Indianapolis Star 22 Nov. 2/5 (advt.) A radical overturning of old theories in magazine making. A complete book-length novel takes the place of the serial story. 1953 Encounter Nov. 49/1 Vigolo..has prefaced his edition with a book-length essay. 1988 R. Gibbons in R. Poirier Raritan Reading (1990) 132 Imagine writing a work of book length, working away on a digitized version of it. 2011 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Oct. 33/1 The Dutch government set up a Foundation for Literature, granting novelists a significant sum for each book-length project. booklist n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > book list > [noun] booklist1808 handlist1848 1808 Agric. Mag. Sept. 163 Mr. Young deserves no reprehension and gains no discredit from his recommendation of Bartlet's book..but to be candid, this is more than can be said..with respect to the whole book list in his Farmer's Kalendar. 1937 Discovery June 192/2 (heading) A Scientific and Technical Book List. 2008 P. E. Faasse In Splendid Isolation ii. 31 The Bos Atlas is still a standard item on every Dutch secondary school booklist today. book-load n. ΚΠ 1858 Harper's Mag. Aug. 417 What shall we say of..the halls of the Imperial library?..The familiar low sounds creep on your ear..the twirl of the little windlass as it brings down its book-loads from the vast regions above. 1870 Appleton's Jrnl. 31 Dec. 791/1 When an author has nearly finished his story, and finds a whole book-load of hale, hearty characters left on his hands, these little thunderstrokes of disease or disaster simplify matters wonderfully. 1907 Daily Chron. 19 Dec. 3/5 The heroine, who is the best of the book-load. 2009 T. Wright How to be Brilliant Teacher iv. 71 This is the pebble-dash approach to teaching. It has helped me to fail a number of examinations, though I had book-loads of notes. book mania n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > bibliophily or bibliomania > [noun] bibliomania1734 book mania1807 book collecting1809 bibliomanism1820 bibliophilism1824 book-fancying1858 bibliophily1877 bibliomanianism- 1807 Director 24 Jan. 82 The book-mania (I hear the frozen-hearted stoic exclaim) is now violently raging. 1900 Anglo-Saxon Rev. June 108 Sufferers from acute book-mania may be seen any morning haunting the barrows of the literary costers. 2007 Appeal-Democrat (Marysville–Yuba City, Calif.) 22 July 1/1 It's all about Harry Potter: Worldwide book mania reaches kids in Y-S [sc. Yuba Sutter, Calif.]. book manufacture n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > [noun] booking1626 book-building1772 book manufacture1809 bookmaking1824 bibliopoesy1832 bibliogony1835 bookcraft1840 1809 Ann. Med. Rev. & Reg. 1808 133 At the same time, we are bound to express our most decided disapprobation of this sort of book-manufacture. 1900 F. E. Murray Bibliogr. A. Dobson i. §ii. 37 This volume..marks an epoch in the ‘large paper craze.’ The decadence of these cumbersome and useless specimens of book ‘manufacture’ may be roughly dated from this time. 2000 Libr. & Culture 35 471 Only the introductory essay..attempts to make any connection between techniques of book manufacture and the transmission of the Biblical text. book market n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in books > market for books book market1803 1803 Crit. Rev. 39 App. 547 The book-market is at present very dull, and scarcely suffices to keep alive the enterprises which are essential to public instruction. 1926 N.Y. World Mag. May 5 1/1 ‘Opposite editorial’ page in The World has become one of the great book markets in the city. 2006 C. Anderson Long Tail vi. 87 The selection..tends to be pretty random, reflecting the taste of the proprietor and the luck of the catch rather than any comprehensive slice of the book market. book merchant n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets bookmonger1275 stationer1311 bookseller?c1475 bibliopolist1541 book merchant1653 newsboy1728 book hawker1737 bibliopole1775 newsman1775 news-vender1796 newsagent1811 news-vendor1823 newspaper vendor1830 newspaper seller1837 newspaper boy1843 newsgirl1859 newsie1875 paperboy1876 1653 J. Howell German Diet sig. D2^v Book-Merchants drive a greater Trade in our Marts then any wher else. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. i. ii. 15 Book-Merchants..undoubtedly receive no small Advantage from a right Improvement of a learned Scuffle. 1897 Author 1 Feb. 217/1 Publishers and wholesale book merchants of Paternoster-row. 1999 Billboard 27 Sept. 31/1 The book merchants all opened combo stores in the city, with the Barnes & Noble store count now at four in Manhattan and Borders at two. bookmonger n. [attested earliest as a surname] ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets bookmonger1275 stationer1311 bookseller?c1475 bibliopolist1541 book merchant1653 newsboy1728 book hawker1737 bibliopole1775 newsman1775 news-vender1796 newsagent1811 news-vendor1823 newspaper vendor1830 newspaper seller1837 newspaper boy1843 newsgirl1859 newsie1875 paperboy1876 1275 in G. Fransson Middle Eng. Surnames (1935) 75 (MED) Hugo Bucmonger. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Worc. 168 He was a great Book-monger. 1919 C. S. Lewis Let. 26 Jan. (2004) I. 426 My regular book-monger keeps his second-hand stock downstairs in a 12th century crypt. 2010 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 1 Oct. pa 22 This motley crew of bookmongers seems largely unfazed by the web or digital reading devices. bookmongery n. rare ΚΠ 1876 J. S. Blackie Lang. & Lit. Sc. Highlands ii. 68 These days of widespread prose and bookmongery. 1917 Nature 3 May 196/1 When secondary education in India was mainly bookmongery. book ownership n. ΚΠ 1880 J. L. Warren Guide Study Book-plates 7 The next chapter will be employed in showing..the many various phrases by which book-ownership can be asserted and set on record. 1920 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 16 June 6/2 Great men of affairs are often astonishingly indifferent to book ownership. 2009 A. R. Knight in C. Bold Oxf. Hist. Pop. Print Culture VI. xxi. 440 Income figures and book prices only paint a partial picture of potential book ownership. book package n. ΚΠ 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. x in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 186/1 One of those Book-packages, which the Stiltschweigen'sche Buchhandlung is in the habit of importing from England. 1974 Pop. Sci. Oct. 21/4 As part of your introductory book package you may, if you wish, take the lavishly illustrated, matched volumes, Tank, Fighter, and Artillery, which sell for $27.85 retail. 2011 J. C. Oates Widow's Story iii. xliii. 199 Most dreaded..is that particularly nasty sub-species of ridged cardboard book-package in which a few publishers persist in sending books, bound with metal staplers thick as spikes. book prayer n. ΚΠ 1603 in J. Greenwood Answere Giffords Def. (new ed.) To Rdr. sig. Aij Book prayers, etc. are an invention off man, and a vayne worship off God. 1899 Friend 24 Dec. 177/2 The transition now progressing from spirit-praise, spirit-praying, and spirit-preaching, to book-hymns, book-prayers, and book or manuscript or memorized preaching..is a stride towards ritualism and priestcraft. 1920 C. Evans My Neighbors ii. 37 He cried against the heathenism of the Church, the wickedness of Church tithes, and against ungodly book-prayers and short sermons. 2003 L. F. Winner Mudhouse Sabbath (2007) 55 Jewish prayer is essentially book prayer, liturgical prayer. book preservation n. ΚΠ 1880 J. L. Warren Guide Study Book-plates 97 The ex-libris is the mature act of book-preservation, and to engrave thereon some fulmination against the borrower, is a virtuous and commendable proceeding. 1913 T. W. Koch Libr. Assistant's Man. vii. 52 Good ventilation is a great aid to book preservation. 2008 Libr. & Cultural Rec. 43 405 [Manoel da] Maya made innovative improvements in book preservation. book prophecy n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [noun] > a prediction or prophecy > contained in a book oracle1596 book prophecy1664 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity ii. viii. 385 The third and last of these latter Synchronalls of the Book-Prophecy is the Virgin-Company, the sealed Souldiers of the Lamb upon Mount Sion, whose Description is admirable and mysterious. a1813 W. Huntington in Gospel Mag. (1853) Sept. 417 Some learned men divide the book of the Revelation into two parts, viz. the church and the book prophecy. 1910 J. C. Hughes tr. R. Kittel Sci. Stud. Old Test. ii. 123 Prophecy passed from active speech into a literary phenomenon, i.e. into book prophecy. 2008 D. H. Shantz Between Sardis & Philadelphia vi. 158 The first book, or ‘Church Prophecy,’ consisted of the seven letters to the seven churches in Asia Minor in chapters 2 and 3. The second book, or the ‘Book Prophecy,’ followed in chapters 4 through 22. book quarrel n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > quarrel in printed or spoken words book-war1610 book quarrel1627 war of words1981 1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 102 Multiplying vnnecessary booke-quarrels. 1895 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 19 Feb. 4/3 The reading public have long ago concluded..that this book-quarrel is the result of the rivalry of the competing book houses. 1995 E. M. Yoder Joe Alsop's Cold War xi. 161 Joe wrote that he had no intention of ‘breaking up’ his library. By April 1958..echoes of the book quarrel lingered. bookrack n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > bookcase libraryc1374 deska1552 bookpress1611 bookcase1698 bookstand1743 bookrack1809 book unit1901 1809 in Suppl. to 9th Rep. Commissioners Public Offices Ireland (Parl. Papers X) (1810) App. (A.) No. 9. p. cxv It only remains for me..to send you the key of my Office, in which will be found in the book rack my correspondent and cash books for the last two years. 1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 543/1 I had made up my mind to nothing but a book-rack. 2005 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 16 Jan. ii. 6/4 Oscar balanced himself on the bicycle's rear bookrack, his gym bag strapped to his back. book review n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > review or critique > [noun] > book-review recension1757 reviewal1798 book review1837 book notice1868 1837 Lit. Gaz. 7 Jan. 11/1 For once we will make a book-review, and a dramatic critique, one article. 1904 W. James Mem. & Stud. (1911) iv. 66 His contributions to literature were all anonymous, book-reviews chiefly. 2000 Yahoo! Internet Life Mar. 144/2 From shiatsu to water birth, the site delivers a mother lode of articles, book reviews, FAQs, and links. book rest n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > book-rest reading desk1637 book rest1642 reading stand1730 reading table1749 book board1775 1642 Inventory 28 Oct. in W. H. Browne Arch. Maryland (1887) IV. 97 A book-rest. 1866 J. Purchas & F. G. Lee Directorium Anglicanum (ed. 3) 3 The Service Book placed on the bookrest. 1972 P. White Let. 19 Mar. (1994) xi. 395 He brought me a book-rest for using in the bath. 2005 K. Mosse Labyrinth lxviii. 566 Marie-Cécile was sitting at the table with the Book of Numbers open on a black padded book rest in front of her. book rights n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > publishing > [noun] > publishing rights privilege1513 copyright1735 fair use1869 book rights1880 release1904 magazine rights1909 fair dealing1916 permission1945 1880 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 555/1 Book-rights, like patent-rights, are limited, and expire in all countries after the lapse of specified though variable periods. 1915 J. Joyce Let. 1 Apr. (1966) II. 338 That [agreement] for my novel should be conditional on Mr Grant Richards' refusal of the book rights. 1993 Empire Aug. 61/1 Associate producer..[is] generally the most confusing and possibly least deserved..of all producer's credits. Normally bestowed on actors, writers, or people who own book rights. bookroom n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > library or collection of books > [noun] > room containing books libraryc1374 study1514 bookroom1771 bookstack1879 stack-room- 1771 J. Wesley Let. 28 Oct. (1931) V. 285 Lend Mrs. Dawson the Appeals: take them from the book-room, and present them to her in my name. 1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant III. viii. 212 Away from his own beloved bookroom and laboratory. 2002 Church Times 22 Nov. 32/3 The old apple-room is now the bookroom... My book-packed farmhouse cannot complain. book sale n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > [noun] > sale of specific articles woodsale1479 port-salea1513 boutisalea1627 book sale1797 book fair1798 sight1940 1797 W. B. Stevens Jrnl. 11 Apr. (1965) v. 421 To Ashby for a book sale. 1797 T. J. Mathias Pursuits Lit.: Pt. IV (ed. 2) 13 The Reverend..Doctor Gosset is President at all Booksales in the metropolis. He certainly is a scholar. 1952 R. Campbell Lorca 7 Sincerity is so often subordinated to book-sales. 1998 High Country News 6 July 2/2 Paonia Library volunteers are sorting thousands of used books into fiction, non-fiction and Harlequins in preparation for the annual book sale. book skill n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [noun] > book-learning, letters craftOE book loreOE lettersa1250 letter1340 lettrurec1400 literaturec1450 reading?1548 book learning1553 book skill1553 book knowledge1613 bookcrafta1637 scholarship1644 clerkship1648 letter-learning1668 bookhood1772 clerk-learning1865 literacy1880 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique i. f. 21 I haue knowne diuerse that by familiar talkyng, & moutyng together haue comme to right good learning without any great booke skil, or muche beating of their braine by any close studie. a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) viii. i. 350 Some who may arrive at that Book-skill and learning in Divine Mysteries. 1997 H. L. C. Tristram Medieval Insular Lit. between Oral & Written 186 This situation certainly points to the growing importance of book-skills in politics, represented by the law-book..gradually replacing the memory of the orally trained lawspeakers. bookstall n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > stall or booth > [noun] > for sale of other specific goods bookstand1743 bookstall1753 newsstand1867 paper kiosk1935 1753 ‘O. Oak’ Appeal with Due Submission addressed to Cæsar 19 Query, whether the Gleaning of every Three-penny Book-stall and Pamphlet shop in Moorfields..have not been eagerly rumaged and ransack'd? 1801 R. Bloomfield Farmer's Boy p. ix I one day happened at a Book-stall to see a small dictionary. 1913 ‘A. R. Hope’ Half & Half Trag. 70 I had something to get at the railway bookstall. 1999 Sphaera No. 10. 8/4 A mousemat facsimile of the Einstein Blackboard has been a best-selling item on the Museum bookstall for several years now. bookstock n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > library or collection of books > [noun] library13.. Biblec1384 biblet1388 bibliothèque1549 bibliothecary1570 study1616 bookstock1796 bookery1798 1796 Methodist Monitor 1 142 The sale of the Methodist books is professedly for charitable purposes. The book stock was left to the connexion at large to help to spread the gospel. 1896 Amer. Stationer 30 July 164/3 This store is the oldest book and stationery store in the city, and its book stock is probably one of the largest in the West. 1957 BBC Handbk. 102 At the Monitoring Service Centre the bookstock's accent is on politics and biography. 1994 Queen's Q. Fall 764 During his 19 years as chief librarian, the bookstock grew from just over 200,000 to well over half a million. book table n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > book table book table1809 1809 ‘Miss Byron’ Celia (ed. 3) I. v. 62 The sprightly emblem of modern information fled to a book-table, and presently returned with about a dozen small volumes. 1829 M. Hare Let. 12 Sept. in A. J. C. Hare Memorials Quiet Life (1872) I. vi. 275 I ordered a book table according to my own fancy, having two shelves above, a bureau part, and shelves below, with a cupboard at each end. 1905 Daily Chron. 23 May 4/6 A lovely inlaid book-table. 2004 S. Shapiro Five Men who broke my Heart i. 10 The black moiré couches, laced with lime and purple satin pillows, were surrounded by antique book tables and torch lamps. book title n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > title fore-writ1570 title1651 eyes and (also or) no eyes1794 book title1802 1802 Monthly Mag. Suppl. No., 20 Jan. 604/1 Many a critical Achilles, who has fought his way through the crowds of the Easter Fair, might be tempted, at the light of many resuscitated book-titles, to exclaim with the fon of Thetis..Ye mighty Gods [etc.]. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. iv. 230 Accurate transcripts of book-titles. 1934 D. Hammett Thin Man xxix. 228 He did not remember having seen a book called The Grand Manner, but he was not a man you would expect to memorize book titles. 2002 Independent on Sunday 26 May (LifeEtc. section) 17/7 It's a safe bet that any book title containing the word ‘sex’, with or without accompanying syllables, is going to be dry and gritty going. book trade n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in books book trade1699 1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. at Book The Book-Trade, or Trade of Books, Librairie, Commerce de Livres. 1863 W. Waterston Cycl. Commerce at Book The modern book-trade dates from the discovery of the art of printing. 1930 Publishers' Weekly 5 Apr. 1892/1 The increasing attention that the book-trade is giving to the art of book-making. 2011 Private Eye 4 Mar. 27/2 A time in March when the book trade badly needs an artificial boost. book unit n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > bookcase libraryc1374 deska1552 bookpress1611 bookcase1698 bookstand1743 bookrack1809 book unit1901 1901 Anaconda (Montana) Standard 7 Apr. 11/2 (advt.) We have just received another consignment of these Globe-Wernicke filing cabinets both in units and stationary cases, and..the book units in all sizes. 1988 Financial Times 21 May (Weekend Suppl.) p. vii/7 (advt.) Large & varied stocks of office furniture inc. filing cabinets..book units, chairs, reinforced tables etc. book-war n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > quarrel in printed or spoken words book-war1610 book quarrel1627 war of words1981 1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr Pref. sig. B2 To draw them to an aunswere, and so continue a Booke-warre. 1670 I. Walton Life of Hooker 33 Mr. Hooker became at last, but most unwillingly, to be engaged in a book-war. 1896 Public-School Jrnl. Jan. 268/1 All of the text-book publishing houses have joined in an agreement to..abandon those methods that have caused so much scandal during the late disreputable book-war. 1998 E. Christiansen in Dudo of St-Quentin Hist. Normans 198 One Catillus was named as Rollo's father... The identity of this patently fictional character was contested in a book-war of four centuries. book worship n. ΚΠ 1595 F. Johnson Treat. Ministery Church 74 Our..vse of the Censures etc. is not according to the inventions, book worship, canons, or constitutions of any men whatsoever. 1894 Sat. Rev. 19 May 532/1 The mass of so-called book-lovers' literature..has grown out of the modern fashion of book-worship—a worship which, it is to be feared.., is apt to be somewhat perfunctory and superficial. 1996 R. C. Sethi Bride wore Red (1997) 14 You are not entirely unfamiliar with this concept of book worship, as your Protestant ancestors risked persecution just to read the Bible. book wrapper n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > cover > wrapper or loose cover wrapper1806 fall1837 book wrapper1844 jacket1850 book jacket1859 chemise1893 dust cover1902 book folder1925 dust jacket1928 dust-wrapper1932 1844 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 8 June 368/2 We see these effects strikingly illustrated in book wrappers. Black letter-press is applied indiscriminately to red, blue, lilac, green, and yellow covers. 1932 Book-Collector's Q. Apr. 10 The book-wrapper is relatively and absolutely an upstart, and a good number of people have not yet decided whether they wish to encourage it or not. 2010 R. J. A. Talbert Rome's World App. 6. 196 The sheet that he saw formed part of a book wrapper in much the same way as two discoveries made in England.., the so-called Aslake and Duchy of Cornwall maps. b. (a) attributive. Derived from, existing, or grounded (only) in books; bookish, literary, highbrow; unworldly, impractical, as book-astronomer, book-pedant, etc.See also book-farmer n., book-farming n., book-ledger n. at Compounds 3, book Latin n., book learning n. ΚΠ lOE Laws of Cnut (Corpus Cambr. 383) ii. xxxviii. §2. 338 Godcunde bote sece man georne & symble be boctale [OE Nero boctæcinge], & woruldbote sece man be woruldlage. 1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell i. 2 To bee a Sedentary Traveller only, penn'd up between Wals, and to stand poring all day upon a Map,..is like him, who thought to come to bee a good Fencer, by looking on Agrippa's book-postures only. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 105. ¶7 The Book-Pedant is much the most supportable; he has at least an exercised Understanding. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. iii. i. 146 Delambre finds in it [sc. Phaenomena] evidence that Euclid was merely a book-astronomer, who had never observed the heavens. 1913 Science 6 June 855/1 The necessity..has encouraged cram-quiz book methods and put a premium on an ability to answer questions. 2000 HR Mag. Nov. 115/2 It is nice if the instructor has some real-world experience, not just book experience. (b) book education n. ΘΚΠ society > education > [noun] > in books book education1793 1793 London Packet 4 Dec. I know not what had been my propensities at the present moment, but even then he had taught me to think, though, in respect of book education, my progress had been but little advanced. 1883 Harper's Mag. Nov. 903/2 The book-education they had while boys. 1906 Jrnl. Educ. Mar. 181/1 Book education, partly because it is cheap, has assumed too great a monopoly of the school hours. 1994 E. Nordland in B. Reardon et al. Learning Peace i. 13 It is a deeply rooted perception that book education is the number one bearer of culture. book knowledge n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [noun] > book-learning, letters craftOE book loreOE lettersa1250 letter1340 lettrurec1400 literaturec1450 reading?1548 book learning1553 book skill1553 book knowledge1613 bookcrafta1637 scholarship1644 clerkship1648 letter-learning1668 bookhood1772 clerk-learning1865 literacy1880 1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. ii. xv. 106 Our english booke-knowledge in these cases is both disgraced and condemned, euery one fayling in his experiments. 1844 F. Palgrave Truths & Fictions Mid. Ages (ed. 2) 118 An ounce of mother wit, improved by observation, is worth a stone of book-knowledge. 1953 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 15 Aug. 25/1 Teachers too often teach from the book alone.., therefore making their instruction as dull and juiceless as only book knowledge can be when it is unrelated to any knowledge of life. 2012 S. Vaidhyanathan Googlization of Everything (rev. ed.) v. 151 As it turns out, universal access to book knowledge is proving not so easy to accomplish. book language n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > book-language bookledenOE book languagec1598 book Latin1773 c1598 King James VI & I Basilicon Doron (1944) I. iii. 179 Not using a rusticall corrupt leid, nor yett booke language. 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 184 The same fortune that the Greek and Latine tongues had,..to become onely School and book languages. 1882 E. A. Freeman Lect. Amer. Audiences 124 The Latin tongue..lives on..as a book-language specially learned. 1997 Eng. World-wide 18 11 English..is used within the countries only as a book language or, to a very limited extent, in some business or technical applications. book-speech n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > other specific styles mock-heroica1668 far-fetch1813 periodicalism1837 pastoralism1842 book-speech1852 nounism1904 regionalism1909 Time-ese1952 kitchen-sinkery1964 nukespeak1979 1852 Gentleman's Mag. May 473/1 This ‘passive’ is very scarce among the peasantry of East Denmark. It is there the book-speech not the folk-speech. 1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue Introd. 25 They [sc. the Angles] first produced a cultivated book-speech. 1920 Bookman July 514/1 Artificial book-speech is struggled for in recitation halls; then forth issue the vital young, and just beyond the door real talk is heard once more. book-teaching n. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > [noun] > teaching from books book-teachingOE OE Laws of Cnut (Nero) ii. xxxviii. §2. 338 Godcunde bote sece mann symle georne be boctæcinge, & woruldcunde bote sece man be woruldlage. 1815 Philanthropist 5 150 Book-teaching may be performed so expeditiously, that before the age at which any trade should be learned, boys may be dismissed from school, and will learn their trade better with an ordinary master. 1874 J. D. Heath Compl. Croquet-player 11 Book-teaching..cannot equal in efficiency practical lessons given by a good player on the lawn itself. 2010 H. H. Tuck Angel on my Shoulder ii. 164 There was almost no practical training whatsoever. They were big on book-teaching there. book word n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > other specific types of word hard word1533 household word1574 magic word1581 grandam words1598 signal word1645 book worda1670 wordie1718 my whole1777 foundling1827–38 keyword1827 Mesopotamia1827 thought-word1844 word-symbol1852 nursery word1853 pivot word1865 rattler1865 object word1876 pillow word1877 nonce-word1884 non-word1893 fossil1901 blessed word1910 bogy-word1919 catch-all1922 pseudo-word1929 false friend1931 plus word1939 descriptor1946 meta-word1952 discourse marker1967 shrub2008 a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) xvi. 354 Practice is a plainer Argument than Book-words; I will satisfie you then in that. 1848 C. Kingsley Yeast in Fraser's Mag. Oct. 456/2 Those fine book-words and long sentences. 1915 E. Pound Let. Jan. (1971) i. 49 Every literaryism, every book word, fritters away a scrap of the reader's patience, a scrap of his sense of your sincerity. 2009 J. Milligan All's Well that ends Swell 28 I may be a ‘hillbilly’ and I may not know as many big ol' long book words as you, but I still know a lot, Hessie. c. attributive. Accounting and Finance. Designating a notional or unrealized profit or loss, esp. on a share, security, etc., whose market price has risen or fallen but which has not yet been sold, as book loss, book gain, etc. Cf. paper adj. 2b. ΚΠ 1879 Sat. Rev. 3 May 555/1 It has been urged that such a measure would enable the Government to put a stop to the loss at present incurred through the old Savings Banks. But this loss is a mere book loss. 1889 Boston Daily Advertiser 7 Nov. 3/1 He gets $11,000 in new 4s, which he sells at 82½ for $9075, and $5200 incomes, which he sells at 57 for $2964, the profit to this point showing a book profit of $739. 1894 Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 4 98 While there is an apparent or book gain, the thereby increased cost of procuring insurances more than compensates for it. 1922 G. E. Bennett Adv. Accounting vii. 229 Many instances will be encountered where the book depreciation to date will be far in excess of actual depreciation. 1969 Accounting Rev. 44 576/2 Complications arise from changes in price-level which usually result in either a book gain or a book loss. 1986 Tax Law Rev. 41 640 If property is held until the end of its depreciable or depletable life and book depreciation has been matched by economic depreciation, the partnership will not realize any tax or book gain upon the sale of the property. 1998 Financial Times 28 Jan. 25/5 There are a lot of investors sitting on large book profits in these stocks. 2005 Yale Law Jrnl. 115 690 A taxpayer may report a tax loss even where there is no reported book loss. C2. a. Objective. book borrower n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > library or collection of books > borrower of books > [noun] book borrower1826 1826 Lit. Magnet 1 137 Your demure Book-Borrower, who usually dresses in black, and wears a shovel hat, has the eye of a lynx for all scarce volumes of Elizabethan poetry, plays, facetiæ, et cet. 1931 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 105/1 (advt.) You get..your name in full gold on the front cover, which protects you against well meaning book borrowers with poor memories. 2009 J. Dutton Secrets from Sex Lab iii. 109 In another experiment, librarians who touched book borrowers on the hand were rated more positively, and borrowers were also more likely to remember the librarian's name. † book-breeder n. Obsolete rare ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] bookerOE writerOE makerc1350 authora1382 inditera1387 pena1398 poetc1400 bookmakera1425 ditera1425 compilera1500 compositor?1533 book writer1565 penner1568 authorizera1579 bookwright1583 scribe1584 epistler1592 penman1592 scriptora1600 composer1603 book-breeder1605 comprisor?1623 volumist1641 scrivenera1660 literatist1660 knight of the quill1692 belletrist1816 scriever1825 creative writer1854 penworker1876 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 235 Sir Th: Moore..& other Book-breeders. book buyer n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > buyer > [noun] > buyers of other specific things cogmen1389 redemptioner1565 gold end man1605 book buyer1655 job buyer1844 koppie walloper1886 rapper1914 home shopper1922 1655 J. Goodwin Fresh Discov. To Rdr. sig. B If either the Book-sellers, or Book-buyers, judg this a reason so satisfactory, as effectually to silence me for ever [etc.]. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter i. 47 Book-buyers among whom his great critical works are forgotten. 1990 Newsweek 16 July 56/2 The Tattered Cover in Denver and Cody's in Berkeley, Calif., have become nationally known meccas for book buyers. book buying n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > [noun] > buying books book buying1786 1786 R. Heathcote Sylva vi. 30 Lucian considered this taste for book-buying, as so sure a symptom of an illiterate fellow, that he joins the two characters together. 1832 Mill in Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 2 343 The wisdom of the book-buying public. 1853 in Notes & Queries (1962) 207 84/2 Free Trade has been also a great hinderance to my bookbuying. 1903 Times 18 Dec. 7/2 The honesty and educability of the book-buying public had..been underestimated. 1989 Guardian 5 Aug. 4/7 Book buying could be on its way to becoming a quaint minority interest, like ferret fancying and welly wanging. 2005 L. Kassell Med. & Magic in Elizabethan London (2007) i. i. 29 He recorded various..book-buying expeditions. book collecting n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > bibliophily or bibliomania > [noun] bibliomania1734 book mania1807 book collecting1809 bibliomanism1820 bibliophilism1824 book-fancying1858 bibliophily1877 bibliomanianism- 1809 T. F. Dibdin Bibliomania 54 The madness of book-collecting rather increased. 1879 N.-Y. Times 12 July 3/6 (heading) The book-collecting newsboy. 1918 A. E. Newton (title) The amenities of book-collecting and kindred affections. 1982 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 May c7 It was Hammer's book-collecting friends..who insisted this centennial show take place. 2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Dec. 57/4 Are there, or have there been, book-chatterers who can get the general public interested in the minutiae of book collecting? book collector n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > bibliophily or bibliomania > [noun] > person book hunter1740 book lover1756 book collector1776 book fancier1779 bibliomane1809 bibliomaniac1816 bibliomanist1823 bibliophile1824 philobiblist1824 bookwoman1834 bibliomanian1836 bookman1885 bookaholic1965 1776 London Rev. Eng. & Foreign Lit. Dec. 474 We take notice of this new edition of Mrs. Montagu's Essay, to prevent our readers being imposed on; as was our book-collector, under the supposition, that the three dialogues, now first added, were now first printed. 1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. III. 130 The most magnificent of book-collectors, the Duke de la Valliere. 1922 Bookseller & Stationer 1 July 12/2 An imperial quarto beautifully printed on fine grade hand-made stock that will attract the attention of all book collectors. 2002 Village Voice (N.Y.) 22 Jan. 100/1 Richard A. Macksey, a scholar and noted book-collector, will deliver a talk entitled ‘By Literature Possessed: Borges, Bibliography, and the Paratext’. book cutter n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > tools plough1580 fillet1641 roll1656 paper-folder1781 stamp1811 backing-hammer1818 bookstamp1819 lettering tool1833 book cutter1850 roller1852 hand letter1862 pallet1875 wagon1875 stop1880 jigger1883 gouge1885 guinea-edge1890 marbler1890 panel stamp1893 saddle stitcher1944 1850 Morning Post 10 May 5/2 A large gold watch..two handsome book cutters, one of porphyry, mounted in gold, the other coral handle with gilt knife; [etc.]. 1919 Libr. Jrnl. May 316/2 The pamphlet is now entirely finished unless you have a guillotine book cutter, then the edges might be trimmed slightly. 2007 Amer. Archivist 70 25 It isn't that hard to build a whole print-on-demand bookmobile. You can actually do it in a little van with a satellite dish, a printer, a binder, and a book cutter. book dealer n. ΚΠ 1811 Brit. Rev. 2 340 This part of the work [sc. Dibdin's Bibliomania] must..be invaluable to curious book-dealers and collectors. 1946 S. J. Perelman Keep it Crisp 22 Then I slipped a pint of rye into my stomach..and went looking for a bookdealer named Lloyd Thursday. 2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 Aug. 54/1 He..calls his writing ‘prattle’ and sometimes worries that he's just telling ‘fish stories’ of interest only to other book dealers and collectors. book designer n. ΚΠ 1821 New Monthly Mag. 3 24/2 Engraved translations of the works of elegant book-designers have enriched a succession of numerous and valuable publications. 1928 Times 19 Mar. 12/1 (advt.) A collection of five hitherto unpublished poems, produced in an exquisite format by Bruce Rogers, the great American book designer. 2007 Guardian (Nexis) 16 Jan. 20 As a book designer I have the responsibility of ensuring product quality for the market. book-devouring n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > reading > [adjective] > reading voraciously book-devouring1814 bibliophagic1884 1814 Gentleman's Mag. 99 i. Suppl. 622 A tome that would do honour to any Dominie Sampson's book-devouring propensities. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lviii. 172 The book-devouring Isabel. 1889 Libr. Jrnl. Mar. 94/1 In one library..the children are allowed to draw but two books a week.., to prevent book-devouring. 1927 Pop. Mech. Oct. 603 (caption) Ravages of the Book-Devouring Insects; Worm- Proof Paper Is Expected to Reduce This Loss. 2007 Winchester (Va.) Star (Nexis) 30 Nov. a3/1 Book-devouring children can now bypass Mom and Dad and listen to their favorite stories on their own via an MP3 player. book editor n. ΚΠ 1809 T. Le Mesurier Doctr. Predestination & Assurance Examined 57 He is also the Book Editor nominated by the Conference. 1932 Times 17 Nov. 9/1 Mr. Arthur Fish, book editor to Cassells,..said he was not aware of any warning being received from the authorities with reference to the publication of the book in question until after its publication. 2002 R. Cohen By Sword 505 During my years working as a book editor, the ‘acknowledgment pages’ were most often a last-minute chore. book fancier n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > bibliophily or bibliomania > [noun] > person book hunter1740 book lover1756 book collector1776 book fancier1779 bibliomane1809 bibliomaniac1816 bibliomanist1823 bibliophile1824 philobiblist1824 bookwoman1834 bibliomanian1836 bookman1885 bookaholic1965 1779 G. Keate Sketches from Nature II. 133 A very scarce Spanish romance, I had long been in quest of, and had come purposely to buy; which was snapped up by a book-fancier, merely on account of its scarcity. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter i. 69 The curious blunder which made one of them worth the notice of the book-fanciers. 1996 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 June (Real Estate section) 4 d Even avid book fanciers will find it a challenge to fill the seven built-in bookcases that line the walls. book-fancying n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > bibliophily or bibliomania > [noun] bibliomania1734 book mania1807 book collecting1809 bibliomanism1820 bibliophilism1824 book-fancying1858 bibliophily1877 bibliomanianism- 1858 R. W. Emerson Bks. in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 350/1 The annals of bibliography afford many examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go. 1907 Living Age 19 Oct. 160/2 This Duchess became bitten with her husband's book-fancying mania. 1999 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 June 16/4 A roomful of book-fancying Rotarians talking about some fairly obscure novels. book folding n. and adj. ΚΠ 1829 Courier 29 Oct. The child, who was an orphan..had been apprenticed to learn book-folding. 1912 A. A. Stewart Printer's Dict. Techn. Terms 76 In the book-folding machine the sheets are fed to gauges or points. 2010 Mercury (South Africa) (Nexis) 21 May (Entertainment section) 4 A series of creative workshops conducted by leading arts practitioners..will include lessons in stage make-up.., book folding [etc.]. book hawker n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets bookmonger1275 stationer1311 bookseller?c1475 bibliopolist1541 book merchant1653 newsboy1728 book hawker1737 bibliopole1775 newsman1775 news-vender1796 newsagent1811 news-vendor1823 newspaper vendor1830 newspaper seller1837 newspaper boy1843 newsgirl1859 newsie1875 paperboy1876 1737 S. A. Laval Compend. Hist. Reformation in France I. i. 82 The first who suffered it, was one Nicholas Nail a Book-hawker, who was executed at Paris in the most barbarous manner. 1852 Hampshire Advertiser 23 Oct. 5/2 We have alluded from time to time to an attempt made to circulate books of a religious and profitable kind amongst the poor by means of a book hawker. 2008 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 June a1 The bicycle rickshaws crawl alongside luxury sedans, book hawkers, horse-drawn carts, hulking buses and cows. book hawking n. ΚΠ 1852 Hampshire Advertiser 23 Oct. 5/2 Book Hawking.—We have alluded from time to time to an attempt made to circulate books of a religious and profitable kind amongst the poor by means of a book hawker. 2011 New Ross (County Wexford) Standard (Nexis) 20 Sept. Gay Byrne's chat show was the flagship in the RTE programming schedule, and having a prestigious slot in a weekly broadcast was more than a book-hawking exercise. book lover n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > bibliophily or bibliomania > [noun] > person book hunter1740 book lover1756 book collector1776 book fancier1779 bibliomane1809 bibliomaniac1816 bibliomanist1823 bibliophile1824 philobiblist1824 bookwoman1834 bibliomanian1836 bookman1885 bookaholic1965 1756 Dictionnaire Prononciation Angloise 97 Bibliophile, book-lover. 1809 F. Dibdin Bibliomania 16 It may be expected that I should notice a few book-lovers, and probably Bibliomaniacs, previously to the time of Richard De Bury. 1863 A. B. Grosart Small Sins (ed. 2) 78 A book-worm—the pest of book-lovers—has pierced..right through it. 1993 N.Y. Times 19 Sept. v. 14/5 Green Apple Books..is one of the best-kept secrets in a city of book lovers—a two-story trove of ‘new and used’. book-loving adj. and n. ΚΠ 1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl I. vii. 227 We have now introduced to the reader a book-loving youth, who kept accounts and wrote speeches. 1856 Brit. Workman Dec. 93/2 (caption) John, the book-loving scullion of Exeter College, Oxford. 1880 Sat. Rev. 23 Oct. 510/1 The man indifferent to books..sins by way of defect, being deficient in the contemplative virtue of book-loving. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses 306 Those delightful lovesongs with which the writer..has familiarised the bookloving world. 2005 New Yorker 12 Sept. 92/1 Hepburn's book-loving American girl. book printer n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > one who prints books book printera1493 bookmaker1515 a1493 Early Chancery Proc. (P.R.O.: C 1/128/79) William Cakkeston late of Westm' Bokeprynter. ?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.v^v Boke prynters, peynters, bowers. 1794 F. D’Ivernois Queries 16 Sept. in T. Jefferson Papers (2000) XXVIII. 153 Which are those, who..would be sure to find employment in the Chief neighbouring Towns, such as book printers book binders linen printers? 1889 Amer. Bookmaker Mar. 60/2 The law printer wants a large, wide faced letter; the newspaper man asks for a large face on a small body, and the book printer needs a great variety. 1937 Discovery Dec. 362/2 All advances in technique such as the steam press and the linotype, had been developed by the news-printer and later used by the book-printer. 2007 B. De Munck et al. Learning on Shop Floor ix. 191 The apprentices worked as helpers prior to the apprenticeship: ‘boys’ among the scythe smiths, ‘blackers’ among the book printers, [etc.]. book printing n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing specific type of work > [noun] > books imprintingc1440 book printing1550 bookwork1755 1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles iii. clxxxv Thys science of boke printing they saye to haue ben found fyrst at Mentz. 1863 J. G. Nichols Herald & Geneal. II. 158 Our historical book-printing societies. 1999 A. M. Sammarco Cambridge 122 The Riverside Press..continued the tradition of book printing that was established in Cambridge in 1638 by Stephen Daye. book-protecting adj. and n. ΚΠ 1880 J. L. Warren Guide Study Book-plates 102 All other book-protecting maledictions must sound weak after this one. 1883 A. Penn Home Libr. v. 48 If a man with a fondness for books has also money enough to build a special room to hold them.., he ought to consult those learned in the law of book-protecting. 1953 Boys' Life Sept. 69/1 (advt.) Get authentic college Plasti-Coat book covers for your school and personal books. Bright college colours are eye-catching and book protecting. 2008 P. Khanna Second World (2009) 437 Itinerant book-protecting fugitives. book publisher n. ΚΠ 1812 Philadelphia Repertory 14 Mar. 342/3 I shall now conclude by observing with respect to the book publishers of the calamity of Richmond, that it is no more than could be expected from such men. 1908 J. London Martin Eden xxx. 267 Book-publishers, most of them, nearly all of them, are men who wanted to write and who have failed. 2010 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 17 July c1 Despite its bloodiness and the sexually charged interplay of the power-mad couple of the title, ‘Macbeth’ has been adapted by some book publishers as a story for children. book publishing n. ΚΠ 1816 Ann. Glasgow II. xviii. 447 It has been calculated, that since the commencement of book-publishing in numbers, 200,000 large family Bibles have been sold in Glasgow. 1959 Bookseller 17 Jan. 124/1 The financial rewards of book-publishing come not from mere publishing but from the sale of film, paperback, serial and other rights. 2002 A. Davies Frog King 101 I don't know how you can spend over a decade in book publishing and not learn how to knock out a few paragraphs promoting a new book. book-reading n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > reading > [adjective] > reading specific material book-readingOE newspaper-reading1782 novel reading1782 OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) ii. xxxi. 164 Se drihtnes wer hraðe his eagan upp ahof fram þære bocrædingce [OE Hatton bocrædingce; L. lectione]. 1832 Times 6 Jan. 3/3 To be sure, the book-reading lovers of antiquity would cry ‘horrible’. 1910 A. Bennett Clayhanger iii. i. 325 A new series of sixpenny reprints which had considerably excited the book-selling and book-reading worlds. 1921 E. Ferber Girls (1935) x. 199 Book-reading, bathing, reticence on Jennie's part were all shouted down as attempts at being ‘toney.’ 1991 Utilitas May 24 Freedom of religious expression and of book-reading should be protected by right in every civil society. 2006 N. Devon Jrnl. (Nexis) 9 Feb. 8 Book-reading, information-seeking villagers in North Devon have started a campaign to save their local library. book reviewer n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > review or critique > [noun] > reviewer remarker1614 reviewer1651 book reviewer1826 revieweress1830 1826 Q. Rev. Music 8 379 Mr. Blewitt's recitative and air is written in what would be called by Book-reviewers an ambitious style. 1898 M. Beerbohm in Idler May 540/2 Even the book-reviewers could no longer assert that he did not know how to draw. 1931 J. W. Barrett World, Flesh, & Messrs. Pulitzer iv. 82 A distinctive ‘opposite editorial page’ consisting of two ‘columnists’, one book reviewer and the daily output of the dramatic critic. 2002 Guardian 6 July (Review section) 7/4 Book reviewers have other jobs—academics, or journalists—or are fully-fledged novelists or non-fictionalists. book reviewing n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > review or critique > [noun] > reviewing > book-reviewing book reviewing1809 1809 Brit. Critic 33 Pref. p. iii While we write, the fate of Europe is suspended on the banks of the Danube... Yet here it is a period of book writing, book collecting, and book reviewing, more undoubtedly than ever. 1909 Garden Mag. May 213/2 Time was, so old-fashioned people say, when book reviewing held its place as a sort of learned profession; reviews were read and respected. 2003 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 July 30/1 He is that rare critic nowadays who goes beyond the necessary ad-hockery of book reviewing to propound a theory of fiction. book vender n. ΚΠ 1778 R. Lewis Candid Philosopher II. Contents p. x On the Vanity of Printers and Book-Venders. 1882 Cent. Mag. Jan. 468/2 The vulgar and sweeping piracy of the lowest rank of book-venders partially shifted the interest of the reputable houses to the right side of the scale. 1999 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 10 June 12 Book venders report that science fiction and detective novels are more popular [than poetry]. book writer n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] bookerOE writerOE makerc1350 authora1382 inditera1387 pena1398 poetc1400 bookmakera1425 ditera1425 compilera1500 compositor?1533 book writer1565 penner1568 authorizera1579 bookwright1583 scribe1584 epistler1592 penman1592 scriptora1600 composer1603 book-breeder1605 comprisor?1623 volumist1641 scrivenera1660 literatist1660 knight of the quill1692 belletrist1816 scriever1825 creative writer1854 penworker1876 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Librarius A booke writer, or binder. 1701 H. Wanley Let. 11 July in Philos. Trans. 1704–5 (Royal Soc.) 24 1998 The Librarii or Book-writers were..a particular company of men, and their Business a Trade. 1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xxi. 385 We feel pretty crank about having a book writer here in Crampton. 1996 Billboard 28 Sept. 102/3 He's a songwriter, a singer, a talk- show host, and a book writer. book writing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > [noun] bookcraftOE fayingc1200 pena1387 composition1577 penwork1596 book writing1600 pencraft1600 composure1601 authoragea1628 literature1663 authorism1702 authorship1710 letters?1710 authoring1742 authorcraft1746 penwomanship1776 penmanship1793 authorhood1832 creative writing1837 pen-and-inkeryc1909 1600 J. Darrell Detection S. Harshnet To Rdr. sig. Aii^v What a test were it to punish treason or rebellion by Booke-writting? 1701 H. Wanley Let. 11 July in Philos. Trans. 1704–5 (Royal Soc.) 24 1998 Book-writing was their profession. 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. Answ. Introd. Ep. 76 The irritable genus comprehends the bookselling as well as the book-writing species. 1917 A. Cahan Rise of David Levinsky (1993) vi. v. 139 I had had no idea that Gentiles were capable of anything so wonderful in the line of book-writing. 1992 Washington CityPaper 14 Feb. 36/4 I am more sanguine, referring to book writing as the ultimate enslavement. b. Instrumental. book-fed adj. ΘΚΠ society > education > [adjective] > educated or taught > educated by books book-taught1647 book-fed1843 1843 C. Knight William Shakespeare xv. 242 What book-fed poet could have chosen a homely incident of country life as the aptest illustration of an assembly suddenly scattered by their fears? 1932 V. Woolf Let. to Young Poet 24 As if they had neither ears nor eyes..but only honest enterprising book-fed brains. 2008 H. Jacobson Act of Love (2009) i. 22 Whatever the reality of him, he played an archetypal role in that book-fed theatre of riot and melodrama that was my sexual imagination. book-filled adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > [adjective] > filled or lined with voluminous1690 book-lined1809 book-walled1822 book-bound1839 book-filled1855 bookful1896 volumed1897 1855 Ladies' Compan. July 16 I was ushered into a comfortable sitting-room, two sides of which were fitted from floor to ceiling with book-filled shelves. 1965 F. Sargeson Mem. Peon ii. 32 The back book-filled room. 2006 P. Suarez & G. Suarez Home Schooling Methods 85 Books were scarce in her day, and to have a book-filled life and education were of the utmost importance. † book-formed adj. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adjective] > skilled in letters book-lereda1250 lettereda1375 bookeda1393 texted14.. letterlya1425 literate?a1475 book-learnedc1475 clerklya1529 book-read1591 bookwise1593 read1594 letter-learned1771 book-formed1798 1798 J. Baillie De Monfort i. i, in Series of Plays I. 313 Every table-wit, and book-form'd sage, And paltry poet puling to the moon. book-lined adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > [adjective] > filled or lined with voluminous1690 book-lined1809 book-walled1822 book-bound1839 book-filled1855 bookful1896 volumed1897 1809 T. F. Dibdin Bibliomania 60 When I look around in my book-lined tub, I cannot but be conscious that this symptom of the disorder [sc. a passion to possess books of which the edges have never been sheared by the binder's tools] has reached my own threshold. 1897 Daily News 18 June 8/4 Warm and cosy, with book-lined walls. 1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) iii. 75 But in book-lined rooms at the back Committees meet. 1999 New Statesman 8 Nov. 18/1 Here we are in the book-lined house he keeps for working. book-taught adj. ΘΚΠ society > education > [adjective] > educated or taught > educated by books book-taught1647 book-fed1843 1647 R. Cudworth Serm. before House of Commons 4 Not he that is onely book-taught but he that is God-taught. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 8 Our book-taught philosopher. 1930 Clearfield (Pa.) Progress 8 Aug. 11/1 In the simple, beautiful and natural story of Hannah,..we impinge upon the profundities which transcend book-taught knowledge. 2004 N. M. Martínez Caramba! (2005) 310 He spoke near perfect Spanish which gave the listener every indication that he was book taught. book-walled adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > [adjective] > filled or lined with voluminous1690 book-lined1809 book-walled1822 book-bound1839 book-filled1855 bookful1896 volumed1897 1822 C. Bradley Orig. Memorials 188 I should with greater readiness discover the object of my search in the book-walled study of the man, who, under the name of a philosopher, conceals the bitterest enmity against true wisdom. 1904 W. de la Mare Henry Brocken i. 2 Half my youthful days passed in that low, book-walled chamber. 2012 W. Landay Defending Jacob iii. xxviii. 288 We were seated around the circular oak table in his book-walled library. C3. book account n. now chiefly historical a statement of accounts recorded in a book. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > other types of statement stewart-compt1580 book account1649 account stateda1683 ledger-account1738 bank statement1824 pay bill1828 cost sheet1840 average-statement1865 reconciliation statement1866 swindle sheet1906 exposure draft1971 1649 J. Lilburne Legall Fund. Liberties People of Eng. 61 The Chancery (which trades men upon book accounts &c. are subject often to use). 1741 in H. H. Metcalf & O. G. Hammond Probate Rec. New Hampsh. (1915) III. 86 My book accompt standing against James Ried. 1883 C. F. Wilder Sister Ridnour's Sacrifice 232 The treasurer..keeps a correct book-account of all moneys taken and expended. 1934 J. R. Commons Institutional Econ. ix. 621 There remains only a book account of all expenditures made for the production of technological capital, at their then prices. 1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 June 46/1 Farmers built up in their localities incredibly complicated networks of credits and debts, ‘book accounts’, among neighbors that sometimes ran on for years at a time. book agent n. originally U.S. a person who promotes the sale of books; (now) spec. a literary agent (cf. agent n.¹ 2e). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > promoter of book sales book agent1810 book canvasser1826 1810 J. Lee Short Hist. Methodists ix. 254 In 1789 he was stationed in Philadelphia as Book Agent to superintend our printing business. 1830 E. Williams N.-Y. Ann. Reg. 299 John Emory and Beverly Waugh, Book Agents, New-York. 1886 Harper's Mag. Dec. 162/1 They may both be glad to invoke the aid of the despised book agent, who carries literature from door to door. 1910 C. E. Mulford Hopalong Cassidy vii. 50 Was you ever an auctioneer..or a book agent? 1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 26 Feb. b1 Without an advance or a contract or a book agent.., Judith Krantz sat down at her old Smith-Corona electric portable. 2009 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 20 Dec. (Stars Suppl.) 6/1 Jessica Fletcher is planning to do a little Christmas shopping in her native Cabot Cove, but her book agent has other plans for her. † book answerer n. Obsolete a literary critic; cf. answerer n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > [noun] > literary critic book answerer1711 literary critic1758 1711 Vindic. Last Parl. iv. 195 The Mercenary Two Penny Authors, their Book-Answerers, Lampooners, etc. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 45 If he has much money, he may buy reputation from your book answerers. book auction n. a sale of books by auction. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > [noun] > auction > auction of specific things lyth-coop1681 survey1725 book auction1769 Negro auction1833 Magic Million1986 1769 Dublin Mercury 14 Mar. (advt.) Book Auction on Wednesday the 22nd inst. 1809 A. Knox Let. 29 May in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) I. 532 I was at a book-auction of a deceased priest. 1903 (title) Book-auction records. 2011 V. McCaffrey Slepyng Hound to Wake iv. 48 Both Sharon and Barbara went to the book auctions together, but it was Sharon who cataloged the old ones and worked on the displays. book auctioneer n. a person who or agency which sells books by auction. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > types of bawdy-basket1567 ballad-monger1598 land-pirate1608 map-monger1639 bookwoman1647 mercury1648 second-hand bookseller1656 Bible-seller1707 map-seller1710 stall-man1761 book auctioneer1776 scrap-monger1786 colporteur1796 death-hunter1851 train boy1852 speech-crier1856 roarer1865 looker-out1894 1776 New Morning Post 28 Nov. Lieutenant Prate-apace, the book-auctioneer, of Al—— street. 1880 J. L. Warren Guide Study Book-plates Pref. 3 The large book-auctioneers. 1919 M. R. James Thin Ghost 51 The sale-room of an old and famous firm of book auctioneers in London is..a great meeting-place for collectors. 2011 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 16 Oct. 22 A bookseller friend told me I should not spend the rest of my life on the internet and recommended me to try a book auctioneer. book bag n. a bag of a type used for carrying books. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > for books satchel1557 book bag1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Etiquette, a ticket fastened within the mouth of a Lawyers booke-bag, and containing the titles of the bookes, and the names of them to whom they belong. 1821 Woman of Genius I. x. 175 Poor woman..! She has no idea, I dare say, that his head is always in his book-bag! 1829 Floridian & Advocate 8 Dec. 3/4 Each Young Lady will provide herself with a book bag and clothes bag. 1915 Cornell Rural School Leaflet Sept. 231 Rather heavy, firm, closely woven material is best for a book bag. 2001 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 21 Aug. 23 Your own school may..stock items such as..sweat shirts emblazoned with the school emblem,..book bags and matching backpacks. book-bearer n. a person who carries a book; (also) †a theatrical prompter (obsolete); cf. book holder n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > prompter book-bearer1530 book holder1585 prompter1585 ordinary1602 under-prompter1781 prompt1969 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 199/2 Boke bearer in a ploye, prothocolle. 1581 A. Munday Courtly Controuersie sig. Dii^v If Looue haue conquered any, blame the Booke bearer, and not the Booke. 1636 W. Prynne Unbishoping of Timothy & Titus 42 Timothy..being so much at Pauls beck, as to be..his cloake carrier, and booke-bearer. 1799 State of Nation (House of Commons Sel. Comm. Finance) III. Supp. 303 An Account of the Office of Book-bearer or Bag-Bearer, in the King's Bench Treasury. 1866 G. M. Fenn Bent, not Broken II. xi. 235 Followed or accompanied by the gentlemen who are made book-bearers, [they] are passing down the avenue towards the church. 2004 G. Childs Tibetan Diary vi. 105 Men..wrap one to three volumes of the Kanjur in a piece of cloth and then strap the bundle to their backs..the book-bearers depart from Pema Chöling and descend the hill toward the village. book board n. now chiefly historical a shelf for books in a pew, pulpit, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > book-rest reading desk1637 book rest1642 reading stand1730 reading table1749 book board1775 1775 Scots Mag. Dec. 692/2 Certain malicious and ill-disposed persons broke into the church of Liberton; pulled down the seat, the book-board, and some other parts of the pulpit. 1847 C. M. Yonge Scenes & Characters ix. 110 She put her arm on the book board, while rising from kneeling. 1910 J. Buchan Prester John i. 14 He seems to have banged the bookboard with some effect, and kept Tam, for once in his life, awake. 1998 W. Flynt Alabama Baptists i. 12 Arriving to preach at Enon in 1846, he discovered that the church had no pulpit Bible..the book board was low and only three inches wide, not even enough for his notes. † book-bosomed adj. literary Obsolete carrying a book concealed in the bosom.Chiefly with allusion to Scott: see quot. 1805. ΚΠ 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel iii. viii. 70 A book-bosomed priest. 1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xxxvii. 252 Many a dreamy hour have I wandered in this delicious solitude, not ‘book-bosomed’; for, at such times, my rule is peu lire, penser beaucoup. 1887 M. L. O'Byrne Court of Rath Croghan xlvii. 386 Old Morough..spoke of a lot of book-bosomed monks to sentinel us, and an exorcist to expel us. book-bound adj. (a) grounded (only) in books; (b) surrounded by books. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > [adjective] > filled or lined with voluminous1690 book-lined1809 book-walled1822 book-bound1839 book-filled1855 bookful1896 volumed1897 1839 Abstr. Mass. School Returns 1838–9 195 One idea, awakened in the mind of a child, is worth a hundred things mechanically worded into the memory, and this is not done by the book-bound teacher, who..just ‘asks a question’. 1863 J. C. Jeaffreson Sir Everard's Daughter xiii. 224 His little book-bound parlour. 1915 N. Shipman Under Crescent vi. iv. 259 ‘Le Roi est mort! vive le Roi!’ The cry echoes and re-echoes down the book-bound walls of history. 1997 D. Jacobson in Granta Spring 184 He despised..a sect which had come into existence precisely as an act of rebellion against the traditions of book-bound learning to which he attached so great an importance. book-boy n. a boy employed to fetch books, esp. for readers in a library. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > library or collection of books > librarian > [noun] > others who work in libraries book-boy1860 shelf-lister1927 shelver1952 1860 Elfie in Sicily I. 18 Dr. I'll take the work, Mr. Swallow. Send it in at once. B. It will be there before you, Sir... John Look, uncle Rody, the book boy is just coming up the lawn. 1903 Daily Chron. 13 Feb. 5/1 His first situation was as book-boy in the library of the Bristol Law Society. 1982 in W. H. Mulligan Wit & Wisdom (1999) 150 I was encouraged to take a part-time job in my second year as a book-boy at the New York County Lawyers Library on Vesey Street. book-build n. Stock Market an act of compiling in advance a register of demand for a new stock issue; an instance of book-building (book-building n. 2); frequently attributive. ΚΠ 1993 Euromoney May 9/2 The Spanish participants in the deal are commended for the way in which they handled the transition..to a transparent book build, overnight underwriting, at the market price approach. 1998 Financial Times 3 Mar. 30/7 The sale price for its Caltex holding would be determined by an institutional book-build process, although the upper price for retail investors would be A$4.40. 2000 Business Rev. Weekly 7 July 74/1 Another advantage of bookbuilds is that the issue price is set just before the listing, rather than several months before. 2010 J. Clunie Predatory Trading & Crowded Exits v. 146 As the share price fell during the book-build period, the sellers and short-sellers could have covered their positions in the market at the new lower market price. book-burner n. a person who destroys books or other publications regarded as harmful or subversive, esp. (but not necessarily) by burning them; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > vandalism or iconoclasm > vandal or iconoclast defacer1534 image-breaker1565 iconoclasta1629 Goth1663 Vandal1663 Huna1744 book-burner1821 idoloclast1843 train-wrecker1873 biblioclast1880 trasher1970 1821 S. Morgan Italy II. xix. 196 The English bishops were notorious book-burners in 1529. 1899 Book-lover (San Francisco) 1 86/2 The virtuous Romans appear to have been greater book-burners than the Greeks. 1951 I. Shaw Troubled Air xxii. 389 The censors and book-burners. 2001 Independent 18 May 16/8 It must be difficult to take this latest outburst of reactionism seriously. But the book-burners have said they will target the writers. book burning n. the destruction, esp. by burning, of books or other publications regarded as harmful or subversive; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > vandalism or iconoclasm spulyiationa1688 book burninga1722 spoliation1752 iconoclasm1797 vandalism1798 biblioclasm1864 skoob1963 trashing1970 vandalizing1979 a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 58 This Book-burning and Letter-murdring humor, tho far from being commanded by Christ, has prevail'd in Christianity from the beginning. 1892 J. A. Farrer Books Condemned 170 The custom of book-burning, never formally abolished, died out at last from a gradual decline of public belief in its efficacy. 1954 Ann. Reg. 1953 169 The destruction of many of these [Communist] books provoked a general outcry against ‘book-burning’. 2009 Time Out N.Y. 1 Jan. 70/2 Despite its rather highbrow pedigree, Good's journey along its predetermined path from book burnings to concentration camps reeks of middlebrow button-pushing. book canvasser n. now chiefly historical an agent who canvasses for the sale of books, esp. by subscription. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > promoter of book sales book agent1810 book canvasser1826 1826 Caledonian Mercury 30 Jan. Rumour states, that John Burness, formerly a banker, and latterly a book-canvasser, was last week found dead among the snow, near Portleathen. 1848 Philadelphia Almanac 2 (advt.) Book canvassers and agents wanted. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §774 Book canvasser, canvasses schools, public offices, etc., for sale of technical or other books on subscription system. 1958 Beacon (Acton, Mass.) 2 Oct. 14/3 Hello, hello, is this the Humane Society? There's a book canvasser sitting up in a tree in my garden, teasing a dog. 2007 K. Segrave Women Swindlers in Amer. xiv. 204 She didn't get that job but was hired as a book canvasser and given the district of Orange, New Jersey. book clasp n. a (metal) clasp fitted to the covers of a book in order to keep it closed when not being read. ΚΠ 1485 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1912) I. 187 Evere persone..which makes daggar chapes, purse knoppes, bulyons, book claspes, dawkes, dog colers..belonging to the said craft. 1518 in Trans. Shropshire Archaeol. Soc. (1904) 4 102 It' for mendyng the booke claspe, ij^d. 1773 A. Wood & J. Peshall Antient & Present State City of Oxf. 45 A Pair of Book Clasps of Silver. 1845 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 16 Jan. 4/2 The service had begun.., the trampling and jostling of the crowd, and the tinkling of book-clasps had ceased. 1970 K. Hoffman Year 1200 I. 80/2 The..floral ornament on a book clasp of the late twelfth century. 2011 E. Buringh Medieval MS Production vi. 355 Books were an important commodity in thirteenth-century Paris, as only a university town could support a guild solely making book clasps. book cloth n. †(a) (probably) = book muslin n. (obsolete. rare); (b) Bookbinding stiffened cloth used to cover the boards and spine of a book. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > fine, light, or delicate > muslin > thin or fine mulmul1619 mull1678 tarlatan1728 book muslin?1740 organdie1757 book cloth1804 society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > materials > cloth book cloth1851 label cloth1869 mull1880 super1914 1804 Aberdeen Jrnl. 5 Sept. (advt.) James Gordon, Haberdasher..has just got to hand an extensive assortment of goods.., viz. India and British Muslins all kinds..Sampler Gauze and Book Cloth, with silks and worsteds [etc.]. 1851 Literary World (N.Y.) 29 Nov. 432/3 Of the Honorable Mentions we note—Bradley, Band & Co., for book cloth binding and block gilding. 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Nov. 7/1 Makers of book-cloth. 1975 M. Banister Craft of Bookbinding (1993) 47 (caption) Bookcloth responds best to thin, hot hard glue, heated in a double boiler. 2007 Libraries & Cultural Rec. 42 294 The survey revealed that A Singular Life originally had been produced in at least three colors of book cloth (green, blue, and gray), each with a different grain pattern. book concern n. U.S. an organization or business engaged in the printing and sale of books. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing trade > [noun] > printing establishment > for books book concern1786 1786 F. Asbury Jrnl. 26 Apr. (1852) I. 511 Arrived in Baltimore, and was occupied..in collecting money for the books, and inspecting the accounts of the Book-Concern. 1872 Congress. Globe May 3909/3 Every book published by the Methodist Book Concern..is published on sized paper. 1954 Billboard 24 Oct. 15/4 Columbia has recently wrapped up such accounts as Philco, Zenith, [etc.]..by making a hi-fi record for each company..; ballet instruction records for a large ballet school; records for a book concern. 2011 S. Harold in P. Finkelman & D. R. Kennon In Shadow of Freedom 71 Patterned..on a book concern Bailey had begun in Cincinnati during the late 1830s, the association maintained reading rooms and published Free-Soil and antislavery tracts in cooperation with the National Era's printers. book corner n. an area of a room (esp. a classroom) set aside for books, esp. one intended to provide a quiet or comfortable place for reading; (also in extended use) a page or section in a newspaper, magazine, etc., devoted to books or literature. ΚΠ 1850 Notts. Guardian 18 Apr. 4/3 These..happy days of abounding cheap literature—..in which the cottage can have its book-corner as well as the houses of the middle classes. 1894 Bk. Buyer Apr. 117/1 So the book-corner as it exists in the country papers is by no means altogether arid. 1913 Primary Educ. June 337/1 During free play each teacher..cleans the yard.., puts out the apparatus.., and arranges a book corner and other things as planned. 1969 Crisis Mar. Contents Book Corner: ‘Black Rage’ Review by Dr. Hugh F. Butts. 2005 H. White Developing Literacy Skills in Early Years i. 19 Story and nursery rhyme sessions lend themselves well to a more informal arrangement, with the group squashed cosily into the book corner. † book-crab n. Obsolete rare = book scorpion n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > division Pseudoarachnida > order Pseudoscorpiones > genus Chelifer book scorpion1823 book-crab1835 Chelifer1865 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvi. 90 In the scorpion and the book-crab..the mandibles..have a moveable joint. book credit n. an amount credited to a named account in a ledger. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > side or column > sum entered on credit side credit1638 creditor1660 book credit1721 plus side1900 society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > action of placing to one's credit > sum placed to one's credit bootingc1300 allowancea1325 bank credit1653 credit1662 book credit1786 1721 True State Publick Credit 3 The first Sort of Credit was no better than honorary, which I call Book-Credit; and the second, for Distinction sake, I will call Paper-Credit. 1786 W. Maule Combination Detected 10 I called a meeting of them together, drew out a state of my debts as well as book credit. 1844 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 41 592 In almost all other transactions between dealers, bank notes are already superseded by cheques, or book credits. 1874 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. (ed. 4) ii. x. 259 Tradesmen fail in business,..in consequence of their money becoming locked up in book-credits. 2006 Main Wire (Nexis) 17 July Book credits extended to the private sector rose by only somewhat over 8% y/y on average over the past three years. book debt n. an amount debited to a named account in a ledger; a debt owing to a tradesperson as recorded in his or her account books. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt > debt owed to tradesman for goods score1600 book debt1644 1644 J. Blackwell It is conceived by Judgement of Many 2 Booke debts, for which no Interest is propounded, and therefore the rate of them is to be considered of now. 1689 London Gaz. No. 2480/4 The Creditors..are desired to bring in an Account of their several Debts, whether on Judgements, Bond, or Book-Debts. 1735 S.-Carolina Gaz. 8 Feb. 3/2 All those indebted to her by Bookdebts are desired to pay the same on or before the said time. 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 12 Book Debts, if not legally demanded within the space of six years, cannot be recovered by law. 1906 C. J. C. Hyne Kate Meredith viii. 111 They can put their book debts where the monkey put the nuts. 2005 Daily Tel. 25 Apr. 33/1 The Lords will consider whether banks can continue to control book debts, and assets such as stock and payments owed by customers. book-edge gilder n. now historical and rare a person employed in bookbinding to gild the edges of book pages. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinder > [noun] > worker performing specific process clasp-man1619 clasp-maker1664 gatherer1683 stitcher1805 book-edge gilder1823 tooler1834 marbler1835 book marbler1843 paper marbler1863 forwarder1870 cropper?1881 flush-binder?1881 inlayer1881 boarder1882 filleter1884 clasper1885 placer1902 1823 Pigot & Co's London Commerc. Directory 1823–4 743 Dudley Thomas, book edge gilder. 1844 Law Chron. 15 Feb. 51/3 Dudley Thomas, of Duke-st. Smithfield, book edge gilder. 1898 Daily Chron. 24 Sept. 10/6 Book-edge gilders wanted. 1952 News-Palladium (Benton Harbor, Mich.) 10 June 14/1 The Bartolains..estimate the number of book edge gilders in the country as 12 or 13. book-edge marbler n. now rare or historical a person employed in bookbinding to marble the edges of book pages; cf. book marbler n. ΚΠ 1843 Atlas 7 Jan. 7/4 W. R. Casson, Queen-street, Cheapside, book-edge marbler. 1924 Census 1921: Classif. Industries §548 Book Edge..Marbler. book-farmer n. freq. depreciative (now historical) a person who engages in farming with knowledge acquired chiefly from books, rather than through practical experience. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > inexperienced or book-farmer book-farmer1770 jackeroo1864 1770 C. Varlo New Syst. Husbandry I. v. 75 They scorn to be book farmers..shall a gentleman because he can write, pretend to instruct me what to do with my land. 1856 Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. 7 806 A notorious book farmer..succeeded in making one of the best farms in the State of New York. 1920 R. Frost Let. 21 Mar. (1964) 102 ‘Amatoor!’ all the leaves began to murmur. ‘Book-farmer!’ 2008 C. A. Elliott T. W. Harris iii. 103 Criticized and ignored by ordinary farmers who saw them as book-farmers detached from the day-to-day reality of agricultural activity..the agricultural societies turned away from their earlier efforts. book-farming n. freq. depreciative (now historical) the practice of farming with knowledge acquired chiefly from books, rather than through practical experience. ΚΠ 1794 T. Wedge Gen. View Agric. Chester 73 His prejudices are strengthened, and he sneers at what he contemptuously calls book-farming. 1823 R. B. Thomas Farmer's Almanack 1824 18–24 Dec. Be not stubborn and unreasonable in your prejudices against what is called book-farming. 1860 Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. 10 537 Another man..summarily pronounces all book farming a humbug. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Stud. Classic Amer. Lit. viii. 154 And that's why the idealists left off brook-farming, and took to book-farming. 2008 W. Allen War on Bugs x. 77/1 They ridiculed the book-farming experts who promoted arsenic for use on food. book fest n. originally U.S. colloquial (a) = book festival n.; (b) a period of prolonged or intense reading or discussion of books. ΚΠ 1908 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 25 Feb. 9/4 The Sequoia Club will hold a book fest.., when each member is asked to bring a volume, preferably of her own work, for the establishment of a library. 1914 R. A. Kasper Some People Marry i. 46 Good night... We must have a real book fest soon. 1999 Independent 17 July (Weekend Review section) 16/5 With the summer holidays fast approaching, I for one will be indulging it [sic] in a bookfest. 2009 Great Days Out from London (Time Out) 23/1 This annual book fest..attracts plenty of literary big hitters—last year..Philip Pullman and Hanif Kureishi gave lectures. book festival n. an organized event that celebrates or promotes books or reading; a literary festival. ΚΠ 1851 Literary World (N.Y.) 18 Jan. 53/1 Publisher's Circular... ‘The Book Festival at Cincinnati’ in our next. 1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 Nov. nj3 Authors in the Princeton area will autograph their new books at a party.., marking the start of a three-day book festival there. 2003 M. Balaban & J. Shields Study Away 289 The city hosts a number of annual international events such as the Edinburgh International Arts Festival,..a film festival, and a book festival. book folder n. (a) a person employed by a printer, bookbinder, or stationer to fold paper sheets into the required page sizes (now historical); a machine which performs this function; (b) a paper wrapper placed around a bound book; a dust jacket. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printer > readers, collators, etc. > [noun] > folder book folder1804 society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > cover > wrapper or loose cover wrapper1806 fall1837 book wrapper1844 jacket1850 book jacket1859 chemise1893 dust cover1902 book folder1925 dust jacket1928 dust-wrapper1932 1804 Proc. Old Bailey 5 Dec. 9/1 I am a book-folder: I was standing at the next door to Mrs. Querey's..; I saw the two prisoners come out of the house with something in their laps. 1872 C. L. Brace Dangerous Classes N.Y. 166 She went to be a book-folder downtown. 1903 Daily Chron. 24 Feb. 8/5 (advt.) Book~folder. Apply..Printing Dept. 1925 Public Opinion 5 June 538/3 Blurbs, those interesting little paragraphs which appeared on bookfolders. 2012 Printweek (Nexis) 24 Feb. 12 Océ is..holding an openhouse..where it will show six lines in full production, including its Jetstream 4300 press alongside a Manroland book folder. book form n. †(a) a form of words written in or learnt from a book (obsolete); (b) the form of a book, esp. as opposed to any other type of publication; frequently attributive and in in book form. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > [adjective] > of the form or length of book book form1622 book length1913 1622 in R. Baddeley Boy of Bilson xii. 22 Did euer the manner of Exorcising anciently consist in Booke-formes? 1651 J. Plaifere Appello Evangelium i. 5 The second end and purpose of this writing, especially in this booke forme, was to give satisfaction to some of my learned and loving friends. 1699 F. Mackemie Truths in True Light 13 Such Ministers..dare not..in their ordinary Administrations, tye themselves to, and only use these prescribed and Book Forms. 1788 Monthly Rev. Dec. 553 The materials of this notable pamphlet first appeared in the daily prints, but they are now collected into a regular Book-form, with the addition of a postscript. 1849 D. G. Rossetti Let. 18 Oct. (1965) I. 82 They will be bound..that they may go in the book-form. 1856 Chambers's Jrnl. 5 322/2 M. Dumas had previously published it in the book-form. 1865 Boston (Mass.) Commonw. 11 Mar. These lectures will..be published in book form. 1902 ‘G. F. Monkshood’ & G. Gamble R. Kipling (ed. 3) 161 This story passed from ‘Lippincott's Magazine’ to the pomp and pride of a book-form Edition. 1964 P. F. Anson Bishops at Large vi. 196 They appeared in book-form in 1913. 2004 Independent 6 Jan. i. 15/6 Well over a million copies of the series have been sold in book form which..suggests that there are at least 100,000 Sandman loyalists out there. book-ghoul n. a person who steals or damages books. ΚΠ 1881 A. Lang Library 56 The Book-Ghoul is he who combines the larceny of the biblioklept with the abominable wickedness of breaking up and mutilating the volumes from which he steals. 1895 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Tribune 19 Apr. There is a book ghoul of the exterior and a book ghoul of the interior. 1973 Black World Aug. 71/1 The front doors were locked. Locked for what? Burglary? Ol' book-ghoul come to retrieve his pictures from E-Boney? book gill n. Zoology (in aquatic arachnids) any of several pairs of external gills that each contain numerous fine lamellae; also called gill book.Now only found in horseshoe crabs, book gills are thought to be ancestral to book lungs. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > order Xiphosura or Merostomata > [noun] > genus Limulus > member of > parts of > respiratory organ book gill1897 1897 T. J. Parker & W. A. Haswell Text-bk. Zool. I. xi. 621 External appendages or gills (book-gills). 1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) 379 Arthropods having four pairs of legs; tracheae, book-lungs, or book-gills. 2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures I. 125/1 Ancestors of the True scorpions..were once primarily aquatic and were equipped with organs called book gills. book group n. a group of people who meet regularly to discuss books they have selected to read, typically as a social activity; = reading group n. at reading n.¹ Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1925 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 4 Dec. 12/2 The book group of the American Association of University Women will meet at two-thirty..at the home of Miss..Higgs. 1984 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 9 Feb. [She] tells how she has ‘travelled’ with some of her book groups: ‘We “did” Africa—that is, we read V. S. Naipaul. We did Russia—Solzhenitsyn.’ 2007 J. B. Kancigor Cooking Jewish 242/1 Our book group meets monthly to dine and discuss the latest read, and we always try to match the menu to the book. book hand n. a formal style of handwriting used by professional transcribers of books before the invention of printing. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > others plastograph1658 Merovingian1694 book hand1885 Lombardic1893 bastarda1894 micrographia1903 micrography1905 humanistic1911 bastard1920 rotunda1927 humanist1954 1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 143/2 Down to the time of the introduction of printing, writing ran in two lines—the set book-hand and the cursive. 1893 E. M. Thompson Handbk. Greek & Lat. Palaeogr. xix. 301 We find it convenient to treat the cursive or charter hand as a separate branch of mediaeval English writing apart from the literary or book hand. 1928 Daily Tel. 19 July 15/5 A fifteenth century English manuscript..with others written in a vernacular book-hand. 2003 M. Noble & J. Mehigan Calligrapher's Compan. 35 Uncials appeared in the 4th century and remained an important bookhand until the 8th century. book holder n. a person who or thing which holds a book, spec. †a theatrical prompter (obsolete); also in extended use; cf. book-bearer n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > prompter book-bearer1530 book holder1585 prompter1585 ordinary1602 under-prompter1781 prompt1969 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 501 He that telleth the players their part when they are out and have forgotten, the prompter or booke~holder. 1659 Lady Alimony i. ii. sig. A3 What a drolling bufflehead is this.—He has been Book-holder to my Revels for decads of years. 1780 E. Malone Suppl. Shakespeare's Plays I. 30 Both the prompter, or book-holder, as he was sometimes called, and the property-man, appear to have been regular appendages of our ancient theatres. 1838 Southern Literary Messenger June 355/1 He imagined that the reclining posture was most favorable to study; and, as it was tiresome to hold anything before his eyes, while stretched upon the bed, contrived a book-holder, for this purpose. 1968 L. C. Miller How to direct High School Play 29/2 Your secretary or book-holder stops the action if a member of the cast moves incorrectly either upstage or downstage. 2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 16 Apr. 45/2 The easyreader can hold books of any size, a claim many other book holders make but fail to deliver. book house n. (a) a library (now historical and rare); †(b) (in quot. 1675) a publishing house or bookshop (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > library or collection of books > library, place, or institution > [noun] book houseOE aumbrya1225 libraryc1449 Athenaeum1799 OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 126 Librarium, bochus. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 1 Þis boc is dan Michelis of Northgate... And is of þe bochouse of saynt Austines of Canterberi. 1675 A. Marvell Let. 24 July in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 342 A new popish Test for Book-Houses. 1908 Yale Lit. Mag. Jan. 165 This is not an ordinary library..but a veritable book-house of the past. 1999 C. Loth Virginia Landmarks Reg. (ed. 4) 8/1 With its numerous outbuildings, including a colonnaded ‘book house’, or library and what was perhaps a chapel, Blenheim is a striking if somewhat naive expression of Romantic Revivalism in central Virginia. book-hunt v. intransitive to search for old or rare books to buy. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > make a search [verb (intransitive)] > search for old or rare books book-hunt1778 society > communication > book > bibliophily or bibliomania > book collecting [verb (intransitive)] > follow pursuit of book-hunter book-hunt1778 1778 F. Burney Diary & Lett. (1842) I. 58 About noon, when I went into the library, book hunting, Mrs. Thrale came to me. 1880 A. Lang XXII Ballades in Blue China 23 He book-hunts, though December freeze. 1983 J. J. Walsdorf W. Morris in Private Press & Limited Editions i. 3 In January of 1978, while in Chicago.., I had a few hours to book hunt. On a chilly, clear winter afternoon I visited the Michigan Avenue shop of James Borg, Bookseller. 2004 J. Dunning Bookman's Promise 10 I book-hunted across the midwest with Seattle friends. book hunter n. a person who searches for old or rare books to buy. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > bibliophily or bibliomania > [noun] > person book hunter1740 book lover1756 book collector1776 book fancier1779 bibliomane1809 bibliomaniac1816 bibliomanist1823 bibliophile1824 philobiblist1824 bookwoman1834 bibliomanian1836 bookman1885 bookaholic1965 1740 tr. J. B. de Boyer Jewish Lett. I. xix. 132 Stiff and dry Romances..are greedily snapt away by those Book-hunters. 1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. III. 131 To what hard hunting these book-hunters voluntarily doom themselves. 1862 J. H. Burton (title) The Book-hunter. 2002 N. Basbanes Among Gently Mad ii. 36 Raymond Morin introduced me to book fairs, essential take-in events for the serious book hunter twenty years ago, just as essential today. book hunting n. the action or occupation of searching for old or rare books to buy. ΚΠ 1697 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris 117 I am resolved I'll never go a book-hunting after the genuine Epistles of Phalaris; though some body has cheated the World with a parcel of false ones. 1884 Cent. Mag. Dec. 174/2 As wreckers visit the coast of stormy days, so you should time your book-hunting aright. 1901 Academy 26 Oct. 375/1 Book-Hunting... There are still possibilities in this least ‘tradey’ of trades. 1997 L. Goldstone & N. Goldstone Used & Rare 36 While other families trundled off..for a day of downhill or cross-country skiing, we went book hunting. book label n. a label, usually affixed inside the front cover of a book, identifying the owner, the institution to which it belongs, or its donor; cf. bookplate n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > labels plate1763 bookplate1791 book label1829 bookmark1876 ex-libris1880 book piles1892 nameplate1896 1829 Aberdeen Jrnl. 25 Nov. J. K. continues to Engrave every description of Invoice Tops, Address and Business Cards, Book Labels, &c. &c. with neatness, accuracy, and despatch. 1880 J. L. Warren Guide Study Book-plates i. 8 Another view of a book-label may now be taken..a precaution against..loss or theft. 1905 Daily Chron. 19 Dec. 6/2 An interesting copy of the works of Horace, having John Kemble's leather book-label on both covers. 2001 H. J. Jackson Marginalia viii. 236 The book label for the library of the English faculty at Cambridge says, ‘You are requested not to mark this book in any way.’ book law n. written law; statute law. ΘΚΠ society > law > written law > [noun] > written law book law1572 1572 Treat. Treasons against Q. Elizabeth i. f. 40 None of all these be iust impedimentes to prohibite laufull matrimonie, neither by practise, nor booke lawe. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. vi. 402 A Court of Law, not Book-Law but primeval Club-Law. a1910 ‘O. Henry’ Sixes & Sevens (1911) xxi. 236 Luke..never knew much book law, but he had the inner emoluments of justice and mercy inculcated into his system. 2008 Amer. Jrnl. Compar. Law. 56 85 Compared to elsewhere..the gap between book law and action law is wider; the legal culture and local culture is more distant. † book-ledger n. Obsolete a person who confines his or her study to book learning. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > a pedant scholist1545 pedanta1593 pedantic1607 book-ledger1672 1672 T. Venn Mil. & Maritine Discipline i. xxii. 169 What can such who are mere Book-leidgers do? booklouse n. any of numerous minute insects constituting the order Psocoptera, esp. wingless forms that are commonly found among books, esp. old books; a psocid.figurative in quot. 1753: cf. bookworm n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > group Anoplura > order Psocoptera > member of woodlouse1666 booklouse1753 psocid1884 book mite1952 1753 J. Jortin Lett. to Author conc. Music of Ancients 34 in C. Avison Ess. Musical Expression (ed. 2) Barthius..was an excelllent Book-Louse. 1776 T. Cogan John Buncle I. 29 Book-Lice will crawl under burdens with ease, That would give you or me a most terrible squeeze. 1867 A. S. Packard in Amer. Naturalist 1 312 The little wingless book-louse (Atropos) scampering irreverently over the musty pages of his Systema Naturæ. 1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses ix. 179 Whereas the book lice feed on the paste and bindings of books, the outdoor forms are said to feed primarily on algae. 2001 G. C. McGavin Essent. Entomol. 141 Barklice and booklice are very common, small, squat, and soft-bodied insects. book lung n. Zoology (in scorpions, spiders, and some other terrestrial arachnids) each of one or more pairs of respiratory organs containing numerous fine lamellae; also called lung book. ΚΠ 1881 Proc. Royal Soc. 32 397 To arrive at the book-lungs of the Scorpion, we have to imagine the ventral surface on each side in close proximity to the short appendages carrying the gill-books. 1897 T. J. Parker & W. A. Haswell Text-bk. Zool. I. 604 The organs of respiration are sometimes tracheæ, similar to those of Insects, sometimes book-lungs or sacs containing numerous book-leaf-like plates. 1941 R. Headstrom Adventures with Microscope xliii. 158 Each book lung contains generally from fifteen to twenty horizontal leaf-like folds. 2001 Pet Reptile July 28/1 Air bubbles are trapped in hairs surrounding the book lungs, which allows the spider to breathe for a long time under the water. book marbler n. now rare or historical a person employed in bookbinding to marble paper for books, esp. on the edges of the pages; cf. book-edge marbler n., marbler n. 3a. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinder > [noun] > worker performing specific process clasp-man1619 clasp-maker1664 gatherer1683 stitcher1805 book-edge gilder1823 tooler1834 marbler1835 book marbler1843 paper marbler1863 forwarder1870 cropper?1881 flush-binder?1881 inlayer1881 boarder1882 filleter1884 clasper1885 placer1902 1843 Morning Chron. 16 Feb. 7/4 William R. Casson, of St. Thomas Apostle, book-marbler, insolvent. 1925 Pop. Mech. Mag. Aug. 278 (caption) Book marbler ‘combing’ a tank of floating water colors into an intricate design. bookmarker n. = bookmark n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > bookmark senyec1440 sign?c1475 register1530 bookmark1833 bookmarker1835 marker1852 1835 F. C. Meadows New Ital. & Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) 310/2 Segnácolo, mark; sign; book-marker. 1858 Brit. Postal Guide 39 Together with Bookmarkers..or other articles usually appertaining to any such Book. 1923 Humorist 4 Aug. 38/1 She only says this to cover up her own gifts to others—bookmarkers, egg-cosies, kettle-holders, and penwipers, worked by the unfortunate Miss Simpson in..her ‘spare time’. 2005 Lima (Ohio) News 4 Dec. a2/2 As I fanned the pages, a bookmarker fell out, separating pages 44 and 45, a marker reflecting a rather feeble effort to read a book of 224 pages. book match n. a match from a matchbook; cf. sense 7h. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > match, spill, or taper for lighting > specifically ignited by friction allumette1601 fire cane1644 paper match1780 Strasbourg match1825 match1830 lucifer match1831 fusee1832 loco-foco1835 oxymuriatic match1835 Congreve1839 Vesta1839 friction-match1847 safety match1850 German Congreve1851 Vesuvian1853 star1862 safety1876 tandstickor1884 post-and-railsa1890 book match1899 Swan Vesta1908 1899 Sunday Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 20 Aug. i. 5/2 Book matches have taken hold wonderfully... I mean the kind of safety matches which are made of paper and sent out in the form of a book for advertising purposes. 1939 E. August Black-out Bk. 30/1 Hold two ‘book’ matches side by side between your finger and thumb. 2006 J. Lutz Chill of Night xxvi. 169 A man paused walking past and attempted to light a cigarette in the breeze with a book match. book mate n. a schoolmate; a fellow student or reader. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > those taught by same master > fellow pupil or disciple condisciple1554 book mate1598 class-fellow1712 classmate1713 deskmate1850 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. i. 99 The Prince and his Booke-mates . View more context for this quotation 1843 R. W. Emerson Let. 6 Jan. (1939) III. 110 I went to see Furness & we had hearty greetings old schoolmates & collegemates and book mates as we have been. 1930 Centralia (Washington) Daily Chron. 27 Aug. 2/1 Carl and Roy Hall were bookmates at summer school over on the W. S. C. Campus this fall. 2007 S. Montefiore Sea of Lost Love ii. xxi. 268 Ah, Gaitano has discovered another book mate... He will be pleased. I don't have the patience to read. book matter n. a matter which is suitable for treatment in a book, esp. on grounds of length or complexity; matter of this type; (also) reading matter. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > [noun] > enough to fill book book matter?1549 ?1549 J. Hooper Declar. 10 Commandm. iv There be many other causes..it were a book-matter to rehearse them. 1604 N. Breton Grimellos Fortunes sig. B3 Let me go a little farther on with you out of booke-matters. What other courses haue you past with this same honestie? 1873 Sword & Trowel Dec. 536 They gorge themselves with book matter, and become mentally dyspeptic. 1907 ‘M. Twain’ N. Amer. Rev. 185 470 I found that they were newspaper matter, not book matter. 1996 E. Ausejo & M. Hormigón Paradigms & Math. 104 Perhaps when these things become just a book matter, the facts will be acknowledged. book-mindedness n. now rare learning, knowledge from books; predisposition towards or interest in books. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [noun] > scholarliness > in books book-learnedness1661 book-mindednessa1807 a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) iii. 92 Antiquity, and stedfast truth, And strong book-mindedness. 1903 J. Morley Life Gladstone I. ii. ii. 117 His bookmindedness is unabated. 1968 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 12 Dec. 3/1 The world of books will grow further and further away and the traditions of book-mindedness will fade from their lives. book mite n. †(a) = book scorpion n. (obsolete); (b) = booklouse n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Acari or family Acaridae > member of (tick) > miscellaneous or unspecified types > member of Cheyletidae book mite1878 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > group Anoplura > order Psocoptera > member of woodlouse1666 booklouse1753 psocid1884 book mite1952 1878 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 528/2 Cheyletidæ, the so-called book mites,—ferocious, predatory little beings, quite unconnected with books. 1952 Jrnl. New York Entomol. Soc. 60 127 ‘Of Insects’, includes descriptive accounts of the silk worm, butterfly,..book-mite, and corn weevil. 2012 M. B. Kahn Disaster Response & Planning Libraries v. 91/2 The most common types of insects in libraries, archives, and museums are cockroaches, silverfish, book mites, and termites. † book-money n. Obsolete = surplice fees n. at surplice n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > church dues > for marriages, burials, or christenings book-money1650 surplice fees1725 stole-fees1845 1650 Declar. in R. Coxe Hibernia Anglicana (1689) App. xlviii. 179 That Oblations, Book-monies, Interments, and other Obventions in the Counties of Cork, Waterford, and Kerry, were taken from the Catholick Priests, and Pastors, by the Ministers, without any Redress or Restitution. 1692 T. Sprat Relation Late Wicked Contrivance in Harl. Misc. (1745) VI. 198 He had all the Book-Money; that is, the Fees for Marriages, Burials and Christenings. 1749 J. Wesley Let. 7 Dec. (1931) III. 25 The book-money is not to be paid to my brother, but to Brother Maxfield. 1833 1st Rep. H.M. Commissioners Eccl. Revenue & Patronage, Ireland 110/5 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 762) XXI. 201 The great and small Tithes, and the Ecclesiastical Book-money for Christenings (Burials, Marriages and Easterings excepted) belonging to the Lands of Goitgrill. book muslin n. now historical a type of fine muslin which is folded in a book-like manner when sold by the piece (piece n. 4a); (also) a dress made of this. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > fine, light, or delicate > muslin > thin or fine mulmul1619 mull1678 tarlatan1728 book muslin?1740 organdie1757 book cloth1804 ?1740 A. Lambe Catal. Househ. Furnit. Hon. Col. J. Mercer & N. Hawksmoor 7 A piece of fine book muslin. 1759 Newport Mercury 10 Apr. 4/2 Book Muslin, Cambricks, silk Ferrets. c1793 J. Austen Volume First in Minor Wks. (1954) 72 She lies wrapped in a book muslin bedgown. 1836 Scenes Comm. by Land & S. 214 Book muslin..is the clearest and finest of all the muslins. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xiv. 123 A low book-muslin dress and short kid gloves. 1884 19th Cent. Mar. 406 Think of a widow insisting on being provided with a book muslin. 1936 Times 2 June 15/6 In a genuine mahogany toy chest of drawers repose her best dress of white book muslin.., an afternoon dress of brown checked silk, [etc.]. 2008 L. Joyce Wicked Intentions xi. 119 The servants shifted the chairs among the ebb and flow of crepe de chine and book muslin skirts. book name n. (a) (in imperial China) a name given to a child on starting school (now rare); (b) a name of a plant or animal (other than the Latin scientific name) not widely used except in books. [In sense (a) apparently partly (in quot. 1815) after a Cantonese equivalent of Chinese (Mandarin) shūming , which is not attested in this sense, which may reflect a regional use (usually ‘book title’ and ‘to write one's name’ < shū (noun) writing, book, (verb) to write (see chen shu n.) + míng name), and probably partly after the more usual (Mandarin) terms xuémíng, lit ‘study name’ or xùnmíng, lit. ‘instruction name’ (both 13th cent. or earlier); compare milk name n. at milk n.¹ and adj. Compounds 3a.] ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > other specific names or types of name the Holy Namec1440 Singh1623 specification1633 indigitamenta1657 explicative1669 ethnic1791 household name1804 class term1811 book name1815 biverb1831 class word1837 family name1840 class name1843 ananym1867 papponymic1875 autonym1879 throne name1880 demonymic1893 ethnonym1894 a name to conjure with1901 praise name1904 self-reference1948 exonym1957 specific1962 endonym1970 demonym1990 the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > scientific or technical name > other spec. synonym1659 book name1878 organonym1889 homonym1892 neuronym1897 1815 R. Morrison Dict. Chinese Lang. I. 359 Shoo-ming, ‘Book name’, is the name given by the Master when a boy first enters at school. 1878 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Aconite, a common book-name for Aconitum Napellus. 1885 Lisbon (Dakota Territory) Star 27 Mar. 5 A Chinaman..gets a book-name when he goes to school. 1908 A. E. Moule Young China ii. 16 Then, when the boys go to school..they have a book-name, selected by the master, and written on the class books and copy slips. 1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 142 Grass Vetchling is a miserable book name, with no alternative except Shoes-and-Stockings. 2004 D. F. Austin Florida Ethnobot. 57/2 Abutilon permolle..velvety abutilon (Bahamas, a book name). book notice n. a short piece of writing publicizing a new book; a book review; cf. notice n. 9b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > review or critique > [noun] > book-review recension1757 reviewal1798 book review1837 book notice1868 1868 W. James Let. 24 May in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 277 I have written a few book notices lately. 1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Sept. 591/1 The majority of the book-notices..were unpaid until the 'fifties. 1999 D. L. Larsen Company of Creative vi. 156 Goldsmith dabbled in many enterprises: translating, teaching at Milner's school, writing book notices, compiling anthologies, and writing for magazines. book number n. a number used to identify an individual publication within a classification or location in a library. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > book list > [noun] > action of listing or cataloguing books > systems of numbering book number1856 SBN1967 ISBN1969 1856 N. B. Shurtleff Decimal Syst. Arrangem. Admin. Libraries ii. 43 Near the right hand edge of the card, should be placed the figures of the shelf and book numbers, which indicate the position of the book in the library. 1914 G. B. Kaiser Law, Legislative & Munic. Ref. Libr. i. 47 Classification numbers, book numbers, and shelf marks, in fact notation of any kind, can readily be dispensed with, though a shelf mark of some kind is useful on material which does not readily fall into a well-defined group. 2011 P. J. Newberg & J. Allen in S. I. Intner et al. Cataloging Correctly for Kids (ed. 5) xv. 190 Concerns regarding call numbers involve local policies governing the assignment of classification numbers and the addition of book numbers. book oath n. now rare an oath sworn on the Bible; cf. sense 3a. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [noun] > solemn > sworn upon the bible book oathc1425 Bible-oath1700 c1425 Treat. Ten Commandments in Stud. Philol. (1910) 6 31 (MED) Agaynes þis commandemente doos þai þat wilfully putteth þam to book ooþe..bot it were in aful iuste cause. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 495 He hath constrayned me..by a boke othe (par mon serment sur ung liure). 1589 T. Cooper Admon. People of Eng. 32 Thomas Orwin..himselfe hath vpon his booke oath denied, that he euer printed [the books]. 1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. K6 Should hee bee brought vpon his Booke-oath. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xii I dhruv him to Squire Egan's, I'll take my book oath. 1920 G. O'Donovan Conquest i. vi. 65 The dying word of a priest is more binding than a book oath, Mrs. Mallon says. book packet n. a packet or parcel containing printed materials, esp. one which may be sent through the post at a reduced rate. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter > mail > [noun] > item sent by post > specific book packet1775 self-mailer1915 1775 Let. 31 Jan. in Rohilla War (?1788) 64 The Anson having been obliged to put into Ireland, we have not received your Book Packet. 1886 Post Office Guide 3 A book-packet may contain any number of separate books. 1918 Times 7 May 8/4 Mr. Illingworth, Postmaster-General..said the Bill only dealt with..the increase of the half-penny post-card to a penny, and the various increases on the inland book packet. 2006 K. R. Gupta & A. Gupta Conc. Encycl. India II. xxii. 732 Second class mail, namely book packets, registered newspapers and periodicals are transported by..trains, buses, trucks and other means. book page n. (a) a page of a book; (b) a page devoted to reviews and notices of books in a newspaper or journal. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > leaves or pages of book > [noun] > page page1589 book page1797 society > communication > journalism > journal > parts and layout of journals > [noun] > other sections or columns Poets' Corner1733 situations wanted1809 situations vacant1819 feuilleton1845 roman feuilleton1845 home page1860 personal1860 society page1883 City page1893 women's page1893 book page1898 ear1901 film guide1918 op-ed1931 masthead1934 magazine section1941 write-in1947 listings1971 1797 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Apr. 19 These letters are composed in the form of book pages, and wedged together in iron frames called chases. 1850 Ohio Cultivator 1 Nov. 328/1 Persons..are advised to procure cuts of suitable size for a book page. 1898 Indiana Med. Jrnl. 16 419/2 It is with no common interest one reads Dr. Keen's work on the ‘Surgery of Typhoid Fever,’ of which Dr. Potter has made a review notice in the book pages of this issue. 1930 W. Lewis Lett. (1963) 197 The literary editors of the London book-pages. 1985 A. Blond Book Bk. ix. 142 Nicholas Bagnall and David Holloway have run the Telegraph's book pages for yonks. 2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 July (Business section) 3/2 The black-and-white display holds about 22 lines of a book page. book piles n. a representation of a pile of books, used to decorate a bookplate; a bookplate having such a design; frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > labels plate1763 bookplate1791 book label1829 bookmark1876 ex-libris1880 book piles1892 nameplate1896 1892 Sat. Rev. 27 Feb. 239/1 Of all styles, the so-called ‘Library Interior,’ or the ‘Book-pile’ displaying the labels of favourite authors, is the most suitable to a modern bookman... if among the Book-piles should lurk a portrait of the owner..the ex-libris will be the means of conferring a distinctly personal and..valuable character to his books. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 305/1 ‘Book-piles’, exemplified by the ex-libris of W. Hewer (Samuel Pepys's secretary). 1922 A. Fowler Bookplates for Beginners 23/2 Bookplates showing piles of books, known simply as ‘book-piles’ were popular in England during the last half of the nineteenth century. 1977 F. Johnson Treasury of Bookplates p. vii/1 Library interiors, book piles, and even portraits..are fairly common in early non-armorial bookplates. book pocket n. (a) a pocket attached to the inside cover of a book, esp. one in a library book, into which is inserted a card bearing the name of the reader borrowing the book and the date when it is due to be returned; (b) a pocket which can accommodate a book. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > parts of > pocket salt-box1819 slip1819 poacher's pocket1908 book pocket1922 hare-pocket1925 1882 Libr. Jrnl. 7 181/1 The borrower's own card is then put in the book-pocket. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 416 Bloom pats with parcelled hands..bookpocket. 1955 J. E. Liberty Pract. Tailoring v. 64 The Hare Pocket..is like a long welt pocket and is sometimes called a book pocket. It is made in the lining, with the welt 1½ in. wide, lined with linen, and with a hole and button. 1972 Publishers Weekly 16 Oct. 17/1 Mrs Wallach complains that she cannot use plastic book jackets on books with maps on the inside covers. No sweat! We paste the book pocket..on the next inside page. 1998 C. Marsh Montana Libr. Bk. 36 Make a card for the book pocket... Put in lines for the borrower to sign their name. 2004 H. Calisher Tattoo for Slave 57 The wicker arm [sc. of a chair] has a book pocket, empty now but still firm to the grasp. book post n. the system and regulations under which books and printed matter may be sent through the post, often at a reduced price compared to other items. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > types of service printed paper1553 letter post1660 penny post1680 general post1687 parcel post1790 penny postage1798 twopenny post1811 twopenny1818 printed matter1836 parcel delivery1837 bangy1842 book post1848 special delivery1865 V.P.P.1888 express delivery1891 rural free delivery1891 certified mail1955 recorded delivery1960 Mailgram1969 freepost1970 1848 Morning Chron. 25 Feb. 6/4 Book-Post.—In transmitting books by post..the public have in a great many instances disregarded or misinterpreted the regulations laid down by the Treasury. 1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 31 Mar. (1955) IV. 426 I send by book post all the printed sheets of the poem. 1912 Lit. Year-bk. 687 Books are lent on personal application, or sent by book-post to persons introduced or well-known. 2002 P. Harding Goa (ed. 3) 44/2 If you are sending books or printed matter.., these can go by book post, which is considerably cheaper than parcel post. book postage n. now rare the price charged for sending a printed item by book post; cf. book rate n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > for postage > type of book postage1825 1825 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 11 Oct. This note is published to rectify the mistake made by some Postmasters, in charging ‘book’ postage on the Register [of Debates in Congress], and to enable those of its subscribers who have paid it to obtain a refund. 1858 Brit. Postal Guide 9 A packet..is forwarded, charged with the deficient book-postage. 1945 ALA Jrnl. 39 345/1 The new bill..would substitute for this flat rate..a zone basis for book postage rates just as for other fourth-class matter. bookpress n. now rare and historical a bookcase. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > bookcase libraryc1374 deska1552 bookpress1611 bookcase1698 bookstand1743 bookrack1809 book unit1901 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Armoire..cupboord; box; little booke-presse. 1778 Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser 24 July To be Sold..The office desks, stools, book-presses and fixtures. a1871 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 275 Book press..of rough deal, but covered with newspaper veneering where necessary. 1994 R. Hellenga Sixteen Pleasures xi. 175 Sisters Angelica and Maria had managed to salvage much of the wood from the old library and the new bookpresses on the second floor would soon be ready. book prop n. a stand or support for a book or books. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > book ends or supports book prop1862 book support1874 bookend1907 1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story I. xxviii. 214 The sofa..with book-prop and candlestick screwed to its back. 1902 Bookseller & Stationer July 15/3 Book props, either covered bricks or bent metals, could be utilized to advantage in a display and could be carried as a profitable side line. 2008 D. Bajo 351 Bks. Irma Arcuri vii. 112 The owner..brought Philip a bronze book prop shaped like a Rodin hand. book purger n. = expurgator n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > [noun] > emendation of text > removal of objectionable passages > one who book purger1606 expurgator1638 censor1644 censoress1778 castrator1819 1606 W. Crashaw Falsificationum Romanarum I. 147 Instructions, giuen by the Pope..to all Booke-purgers. 1964 San Antonio (Texas) Express 11 Sept. 4 a/7 America was not founded by book-purgers, nor those impugning the patriotism of other citizens. 1993 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 7 Sept. 6 b The book purgers are among the harshest critics of growing violence, drugs and sexuality. book rate n. the rate charged for sending a printed item by book post. ΚΠ 1851 Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 1 Feb. If three cents be the lowest rate for which a letter can be conveyed, then the newspaper and book rate is not remunerative. 1965 C. Bukowski Let. 24 June in Screams from Balcony (1998) 173 I'll send you Notes from Underground if you want to read the story..all right? will send by crawl mail..book rate. 2010 Parade 17 Jan. 16/1 I piled my boxes of books on the counter..and said very solicitously, ‘Hello, how're you doing? These just need to go book rate.’ book reader n. (a) a person who reads books, esp. habitually for pleasure; (b) a hand-held device on which electronic versions of books, or other text in digital form, can be read; = e-reader n. 2.In quot. 1595: a reader of the bible, with depreciative implication of avoiding more active religious involvement. ΚΠ 1595 W. Burton Rowsing of Sluggard i. sig. C2 Now I am a Minister, or a Curat, or for fault of a better, the booke-reader of our parish. 1661 F. Kirkman in J. Webster et al. Cure for Cuckold To Rdr. sig. A2 It was not long since I was onely a Book-Reader, and not a Book-seller, which Quality..I have now lately taken on me. 1773 Monthly Rev. Jan. 49 The Author of ‘the Book of Scraps’,..has benevolently showered down on the gaping multitude of booksellers and book-readers, the results of his speculations. 1811 T. F. Dibdin Bibliomania (ed. 2) iv. 231 That curious book-reader and collector, Girald, Archbishop of York. 1914 Forum Mar. 380 ‘I'll lend you a translation of the book, if you like.’ ‘No thanks,’ said Jimmy; ‘I'm no book-reader.’ 1992 Sci. Fiction & Fantasy Writers Amer. Bull. Spring 55/2 Now that Sony has released the first of their ‘diskman’ book readers, it's going to be far less than another ten years before we have easy to read, portable electronic readers. 1996 R. Senjen & J. Guthrey Internet for Women ii. 35 [They] are avid book readers, with interests ranging from science fiction to medieval literature. 2000 Independent 8 June i. 5/4 Thirty million hand-held book readers—light, portable screens—are expected to be sold in the next five years, each capable of holding up to 10 full-length novels. book report n. originally and chiefly U.S. an account or review by a student of a book which he or she has read, esp. one set as a formal assignment. ΚΠ 1898 Rep. Superintendent Public Instr. Pennsylvania 1897 280 Each student is required to..present a report of what has been read. The so-called ‘book report’ is a most interesting and valuable feature of the literary work of the school. 1939 Eng. Jrnl. 28 748 We stimulated reading by means of wall posters.., by individual files of books read, by much informal talk about books, and by almost no book reports. 2006 H. O'Neill Lullabies for Little Criminals 7 The teacher shushed everyone up as she handed back our book reports. book scorpion n. †(a) a person who is hostile to books or learning, represented as a scorpion (obsolete. rare); (b) a pseudoscorpion, esp. Chelifer cancroides, that is sometimes found in old books (where it preys on booklice and dust mites). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > division Pseudoarachnida > order Pseudoscorpiones > genus Chelifer book scorpion1823 book-crab1835 Chelifer1865 1649 A. Marvell in R. Lovelace Lucasta sig. a7 Swarms Of Insects..against you rise in arms. Word-peckers, Paper-rats, Book-scorpions. 1823 tr. J. P. F. Deleuze Hist. & Descr. Royal Mus. Nat. Hist. II. viii. 462 We often find in our book, herbals, etc., a small insect much like a scorpion, without a tail; it is the phalngium cancroïdes.., vulgarly called the book-scorpion. 1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 679 Book Scorpion, Chelifer Wideri. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiv. 366 Like miniature scorpions, but without the long tail or sting, are the book-scorpions or false-scorpions. 2001 H. Holmes Secret Life Dust x. 187 The book scorpion..awaits the innocent dust mite or book louse that might pass by. book-shy adj. reluctant or unwilling to read books. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > want of learning, illiteracy > [adjective] > not studious unliterate1548 unbookisha1616 unbooklearned1633 unscholastic1690 unreading1728 bookless1734 unliterary1788 unbooked1859 non-literate1891 book-shy1902 1902 A. H. Lewis Wolfville Days xiii. 199 I'm simply born book-shy, an' is terrified at schools from my cradle. 1941 V. Woolf Between Acts 26 Book-shy she was..and gun-shy too. 2011 M. Cart Young Adult Lit. ii. vii. 97 The normally book-shy mass media ate all this up and hyped Harry [Potter] relentlessly. book signing n. the signing of a publication by the author or originator; spec. the signing by an author of copies of his or her work for members of the public (frequently attributive); an event where this takes place, typically held in a bookshop. ΚΠ 1907 Author Apr. 186/1 Book-signing... I refer to the custom of signing, initialling, or marking with a facsimile autograph, every copy of a piece of music before it is sold. Nearly every music publisher in this country now adheres to the custom. 1939 Publishers Weekly 15 July 156/2 I am fortunate in my own town, in having warm friends among the bookstore people, so that there are book teas for me, and book signing afternoons, with fine results. 1956 Chicago Tribune 30 Dec. b5 It was in the book section of Marshall Field's and he was saying a few words before sitting down to an afternoon of book signing. 1965 R. Howard tr. S. de Beauvoir Force of Circumstance x. 540 Press conferences, television appearances,..book signings, lunches with writers, a visit to the Museum with a group of painters who—what an ordeal! 1995 Eightdays Week 20 May 17/1 An author..notices her during a book-signing session. 2005 Writer's Mag. Sept. 49/4 Instead of a traditional (usually sparsely attended) booksigning, you could team up with poets and other entertainers to present an event at which your book is sold. bookslide n. now historical a portable stand for books having folding end panels and a base which can be extended in length by a sliding mechanism. ΚΠ 1834 Hampshire Advertiser 8 Feb. (advt.) Neat mahogany book slides with brass lattice sides. 1902 Collier's Illustr. Weekly 8 Nov. 19/2 If you can do pyrography, there are many handsome things you could decorate with burnt work—cuff boxes, tie cases, handkerchief boxes, a book slide, or a newspaper rack. a1999 J. Bassett Facing Island (2002) 157 There is still space in my beautiful Edwardian bookslide, holding the books that I have written. book-smart adj. colloquial (originally U.S.) having knowledge acquired from books or study; scholarly, bookish; frequently implying lack of common sense or worldliness; cf. street-smart adj. at street n. and adj. Compounds 4. ΚΠ 1924 Ogden (Utah) Standard Examiner 24 Aug. 3/5 Remember, bimbo, that the big money in this life don't go to the book-smart babies; it goes to the lads that can make other guys do their stuff. 1980 J. J. Carey C. Marney iv. 130 He felt that ministers need to talk less and hear more; they don't need to be book smart but they need lots of common sense. 2007 Guardian (Nexis) 27 Mar. 6 She was real book-smart, but not street-smart, so I'd copy her work to pass. book smarts n. colloquial (originally U.S.) knowledge acquired from books or study, esp. as opposed to common sense, worldliness, etc.; academic intelligence; sometimes contrasted with street smarts n. at street n. and adj. Compounds 4.In quot. 1974 in singular: cf. smart n.² 4a(b). ΚΠ 1974 Field & Stream July 105/3 But, ‘having no book smart’, as he says, D. L. turned to ‘the most intelligent person I've ever met.’ 1979 Sunday Sun (Baltimore) 8 July k2/4 Those..close to Malone—a man who is gifted with common sense, but lacking in book smarts—would wonder how he could have handled the academic load at Maryland. 2013 Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 28 Apr. (Sport section) 50 He's pretty good on the book smarts, but not so good on the street smarts. He's improved a lot.., but he used to be really gullible at the start. book society n. now chiefly historical = book club n. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > library or collection of books > library, place, or institution > [noun] > other types public library1597 lending library1708 travelling library?1727 book society1739 book club1740 circulating library1742 free library1746 county library1748 library of reference1809 reference library1821 prison library1847 branch library1862 copyright library1898 bookmobile1924 1739 J. Warren in Serm. Several Subj. I. Subscribers Names p. v Book Society of Dedham, Essex. 1783 J. M. Moffatt Protestant's Prayer-bk. 175 A gentleman..may be exceedingly useful..by encouraging book societies, for the propagation of religious knowledge among the poor. 1807 R. Southey in Ann. Rev. 5 613/2 Not subjects to be sent into circulating libraries and book-societies. 1938 Times 5 Jan. 12/3 He was not conscious of any bad effect on his own business of book clubs and book societies. 2007 Libr. & Cultural Rec. 42 158 By 1821 there were some 500 flourishing proprietary libraries and 6,500 local cooperative book societies and clubs for the middle classes. book squaring n. †(a) British Betting the action or practice of settling an account by paying out winnings or paying off a debt (obsolete); (b) Finance the action or activity (typically at the end of a fiscal period) of reducing exposure in a particular security, commodity, etc., to zero, by buying or selling stock. ΚΠ 1824 St. James's Chron. 23 Sept. 4/5 Last year much was said respecting the favourite and the false start, which no doubt spoilt the best calculations. This year, too, all calculation has been of little avail, and book-squaring impossible. 1866 Sporting Gaz. 7 Apr. 256/1 He most obligingly read over the card, but as the transactions were not many, and those only of a book squaring nature, they were of little interest to your numerous readers, and not worth quoting. 1958 Times 1 Jan. 15/6 London, Dec. 31.—Merino futures were quiet in front of the new year, and to-day's business was mainly confined to book squaring. 1991 Sunday Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 19 May Gold bullion remained quiet during late trading, with business restricted to routine end-week booksquaring operations. 2003 Financial Times 4 Oct. m24/1 The initial sell-off was attributed largely to book squaring prior to the end of the third quarter on Tuesday as jittery investors looked to lock in profits. bookstack n. an area of a library for the compact storage of books, esp. one having restricted public access; cf. stack n. 1d. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > library or collection of books > [noun] > room containing books libraryc1374 study1514 bookroom1771 bookstack1879 stack-room- 1879 Libr. Jrnl. 4 235/1 The new wing [sc. of Harvard College Library] consists of a perfectly uniform series of book stacks arranged like a gridiron, the faces numbered in order. 1900 Library Jrnl. Nov. 679/2 Convenient elevators for passengers and freight are provided in the book-stacks. 1968 Bodl. Libr. Rec. 8 60 Mobile shelving in the bookstack. 2001 In at Deep End: Cherwell Freshers' Guide 24/1 Here they have a copy of every book ever. You can ask for all of them.., but it will probably take five days to be found in a bookstack which runs under half of Oxford. bookstamp n. a stamp used to identify the owner of a book or the institution to which it belongs. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > tools plough1580 fillet1641 roll1656 paper-folder1781 stamp1811 backing-hammer1818 bookstamp1819 lettering tool1833 book cutter1850 roller1852 hand letter1862 pallet1875 wagon1875 stop1880 jigger1883 gouge1885 guinea-edge1890 marbler1890 panel stamp1893 saddle stitcher1944 1819 Catal. Lansdowne MSS Brit. Mus. 219/1 Collected by Sir Richard Saint George, Clarencieux, whose arms or book-stamp are preserved in the insides of the covers. 1909 C. Davenport (title) English Heraldic Bookstamps. 2006 Bk. Hist. 9 32 Several of the volumes currently stored at the Staatliche Bibliothek in Ansbach bear her mother's bookstamp. bookstand n. (a) a stand or stall for the sale of books or other publications; (b) a stand or case for storing books. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > bookcase libraryc1374 deska1552 bookpress1611 bookcase1698 bookstand1743 bookrack1809 book unit1901 society > trade and finance > trading place > stall or booth > [noun] > for sale of other specific goods bookstand1743 bookstall1753 newsstand1867 paper kiosk1935 1743 J. Smart Let. from Lady at Madrass (title page) Sold by..Bookseller,..near the Bull and Gate,..and at the Book-Stand, the Corner of Chancery Lane. 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. xlv. 492 Thirty very large desks or book-stands of an extraordinary size..stand upon four long tables. 1807 W. Scott Let. 13 Jan. (1932) I. 346 The great genius who invented the gilded inlaid or Japan bookstands for boudoirs & drawing rooms. 1821 Q. Musical Mag. 3 153 My song is immediately printed and published by others, and I have the mortification of seeing it exposed for sale at three-pence..on almost every old book-stand in..the metropolis. 1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xiv. 303 A bookstand that supported a pile of sketch-books. 1923 Tempest 15 May 7/2 Students visited all the book stands where the magazine was on sale and demanded that the proprietors take it off. 1999 P. Mishra Romantics (2001) i. ii. 27 Besides the strong cot there was a rough study table, a wooden chair and a jute-and-bamboo bookstand. 2003 S. Brown Free Gift Inside! 273 The companies he mentions in his blockbusters often go belly up before the paperback edition hits the bookstands. book support n. = bookend n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > book ends or supports book prop1862 book support1874 bookend1907 1874 W. H. Post U.S. Patent 146,706 1 (heading) Improvement in book-supports. 1895 G. Stikeman Adjustable Book Shelving 4 Book supports, for partially filled shelves. 1922 Gaylord's Triangle 1 Sept. 4/1 Book end poster holders for use with book supports in table displays make neat frames for our popular 3 ×11 inch posters. 2005 C. L. Prajapati Conservation of Documents iv. 112 For proper preservation, books should be supported by one another or shelves reasonably filled by book supports or book ends. bookswear v. now rare transitive to cause or require (a person) to swear an oath on the Bible; chiefly in passive. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [verb (transitive)] > swear an oath or take an oath > impose an oath on oatha1425 bookswear1558 1558 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 107 Bodely buke sworne. 1759 L. Sterne Polit. Romance Postscript 29 Trim declared he was as innocent as the Child that was unborn: That he would be Book-sworn he had no Hand in it. 1845 A. M. Hall Whiteboy I. x. 169 The Whiteboys, I'm tould, are book sworn against all landlords. 1948 M. Deasy Hour of Spring (1976) v. 51 The way she looked at him, you'd be Booksworn she thought he was as clever as the King of France. book thief n. a person who steals books; also figurative (esp. in early use) a plagiarist. ΚΠ 1596 R. Brooke Disc. Certaine Errours (end matter) sig. 4^v Ah wicked Booke-theefe whosoeuer did it. 1758 J. Brown Estimate Manners & Princ. Times II. i. 75 Book-Thieves..abuse, maim, or murder, every honest Author who is possessed of ought worth their carrying off. 1868 Lowell (Mass.) Daily Citizen & News 1 Jan. An investigation showed her to be a professional book thief, who already had stolen property on her person. 1908 Bull. Amer. Libr. Assoc. Sept. 251/1 Alas, it cannot be denied that we have book thieves with us always. 2010 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 22 July 25 The Cambridge-educated serial book thief who has just been sent to prison for taking books from the Royal Horticultural Society..probably thought that he was showing his connoisseurship. book token n. a voucher which can be redeemed for a book or as part payment for a book. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > voucher > specific kind of scrip1818 box top1820 labour note1831 punch-out1899 book token1932 record token1939 slop-chit1946 luncheon voucher1955 dinner card1963 1932 Book Tokens (Nat. Book Council) 5 In order to give readers some idea of the appearance of the Book Token this leaflet has been made similar in size and format. 1938 Times 5 Jan. 12/3 They had a 7s. 6d. book token which they exchanged for one 5s. book and five 6d. books. 1993 G. Brown in M. Bradbury & A. Motion New Writing 2 332 Win the class prize for Effort, not as flattering as the one for Achievement, but you still get a book token. 2004 J. Moore Dot.homme (2005) i. 15 Oh, puh-lease, a bloody gift voucher or book token. book tour n. originally U.S. a series of talks, book signings, and interviews given by an author travelling from place to place to promote a recently-published book. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > tour > types of the tour1642 grand tour1678 circular tour1860 swing1860 tourette1881 voyage of discovery1890 roundabout1894 Cook's tour1902 conducted1907 conducted tour1907 book tour1939 tour d'horizon1952 1939 Tel.-Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) 16 July 20/3 He went on a ‘book tour’, signing autographs and attending teas in 20 cities. 1968 Times 3 Feb. 21/1 John Creasey returned from a world book tour globally piqued by the scorn for British politics with which he had been showered. 2012 M. Maeda Bk. Publishing 101 xi. 238 Publishers usually arrange book tours only for certain authors whose books sell in the hundreds of thousands of copies. book tray n. a tray for carrying or storing books. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > book-tray book tray1830 1830 Newcastle Courant 28 Aug. (advt.) A most elegant Assortment of Cabinet Cases..viz., Ladies and Gentlemen's Dressing Cases.., Book Trays, Letter Boxes and Trays, Card Boxes, &c. 1875 T. Seaton Man. Fret Cutting iv. 42 It is a book-tray end; the full size is six inches by five. 1916 E. F. Benson David Blaize vii. 132 I love looking through old book-trays. 2007 S. M. Baule Facilities Planning for School Libr. & Technol. Centers (ed. 2) iii. 51 Students rarely use the book tray under a chair, so do not order them; they simply become footrests. book trough n. a shelf or rack for books in the form of a trough. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > receptacle for books > [noun] > book-shelf shelf1732 open shelf1821 book trough1893 1893 Brit. Patent 1502 64/2 The seat is hinged to its standard at back and may have a book trough under it. 1929 E. Bowen Last September i. ii. 17 She glanced intently along the books in the book-trough. 1961 T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship (ed. 2) 52/1 Book trough, a V-shaped wooden shelf or rack placed on library tables for the display of books in such a manner that the titles are clearly visible. 2010 F. Sedgwick 100 Ideas for teaching Literacy lxi. 75 It is a shame if the children in Year 3 suddenly find that their book troughs disappear, to be replaced by duller shelving. book type n. Printing (now chiefly historical) type which is used for printing books. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > for printing books book type1826 body type1866 body face1898 1826 Christian Telescope 28 Oct. 96/3 (advt.) Having several large founts of handsome Book Type, he will at all times be enabled to execute Book work with expedition. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 699/1 Types are divided into two classes—book type, including Roman and Italic, and job type. 1941 H. G. Aldis et al. Printed Bk. (ed. 2) 128 Most original of twentieth-century designers is Eric Gill, whose successful book type, Perpetua, reveals an artist's fresh solution of the old problem of letter-form. 2007 R. Fawcett-Tang New Typogr. Design 7/2 It was clear that, for advertising purposes, the fine, open-faced serifed book types..were proving hopelessly inadequate. book value n. (a) Bookkeeping the value of an asset according to a company's account books (spec. its original cost less depreciation) as distinguished from its market value; = net book value n. at net adj. Compounds; (b) Finance the value of a company or its stock as shown in its financial records, spec. its total assets less all liabilities; = net asset value n. at net adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > values in specific terms book value1838 carrying value1864 written-down value1893 cash-value1898 asset value1902 resale value1913 points value1936 point value1939 shareholder value1965 1838 Patriot 8 Nov. 7/1 Were you aware of the plan proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer last year, by which a book value was to be put upon the property? 1878 Independent (N.Y.) 24 Jan. 20/1 The following table shows the book value of the stock of the different fire insurance companies of this city at the opening of the year. 1912 Milford (Iowa) Mail 14 Nov. The book value of the company is around $64,000,000, equal to approximately $430 a share. 1998 I. Hunter Which? Guide to Employment xii. 212 In order to improve the deal, employees could..ask whether the company is prepared to sell their company car to them at its book value. 2013 Wall St. Jrnl. 2 Mar. b1/4 That message sent deal makers scurrying to identify potential ‘elephants’, or companies that fit Berkshire's acquisition criteria..and also are large enough to increase the company's overall book value. book voucher n. a voucher which can be redeemed for a book or as part payment for a book; a book token. ΚΠ 1901 World (N.Y.) 25 Mar. 5/1 (advt.) Weekly Book Vouchers appear in each announcement... City Readers secure the volumes for 25 cents a copy and one voucher..at the Wanamaker store. 1901 Weekly Irish Times 1 June 6/2 Please accept my very best thanks for the book voucher you sent me as a prize. 2011 S. Gee in L. Price Unpacking my Libr. 94/2 I started buying books as a teenager, with book vouchers given to me for Christmas and birthdays. bookwork n. (a) the study of books; book learning; (also) teaching which is based on textbooks; (b) Printing the printing of books or similar matter, as opposed to job work (see job n.² 2b) (now chiefly historical). ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > [noun] > study of books readingeOE bookeOE bookworkOE bookery1597 society > communication > printing > printing specific type of work > [noun] > books imprintingc1440 book printing1550 bookwork1755 OE Wulfstan Institutes of Polity (Junius) 75 Bisceopes dægweorc, ðæt bið mid rihte his gebedu ærest and ðonne his bocweorc, ræding oððon rihting, lar oððon leornung. 1705 Oculist 5 Even the best recorded Golden Rule of Art, may prove but a fallible Tradition, if Book-work Knowledge were the Physicians only Guide. 1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. 48 It can hardly be supposed that he who shall have particular occasion for large letter only, should lay his money out upon such Founts as are required for Book-work. 1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich viii. 72 He'll think me..Neither better nor worse for my gentlemanship and book-work. 1881 J. G. Fitch Lect. Teaching 150 Book-work for lessons has obvious advantages. 1926 W. H. Slater What Compositor should Know iii. 1 The work of the composing department..is divided roughly into two sections: ‘Bookwork’ and ‘Jobwork’. 1989 T. Parker Place called Bird iv. 44 College was a lot harder than High School, book work didn't come easy to me there. 2007 D. Winship in S. E. Casper et al. Hist. of Bk. in Amer. III. i. 45 This free combination of type styles was particularly characteristic of job printing... The text types used for bookwork were available and used in a great, if less obviously extravagant, variety of designs. book world n. (a) (with the) the world of literature or publishing; (b) life or the world as described in literature; a fictional world. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] literary world1727 book world1784 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > life as described in fiction book world1906 1784 A. Hamilton Let. from Phocion (verso rear cover) (advt.) For more particulars in the American Book-World, please to enquire, for Bell's Sale Catalogue. 1858 W. Bagehot Coll. Wks. (1965) I. 332 In the book-world they [sc. the Liberal party] enjoyed a domination. 1905 Daily Chron. 18 July 3/2 The whole book-world is a commonwealth to which certain first, fixed principles apply. 1906 Daily Chron. 7 May 3/5 The book-world, which is the edited reflection of life, brings the great facts of contrast into added prominence. 1998 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 13 June (Weekend) 9 He has spent more than 10,000 hours over 11 years creating such a book world in A Shadow on the Glass. 2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 1 Apr. 8/1 Administrator of the Man Booker Prize, Grand Pooh-Bah of literary London and overseeing deity of the book world. bookwright n. a maker or author of books. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] bookerOE writerOE makerc1350 authora1382 inditera1387 pena1398 poetc1400 bookmakera1425 ditera1425 compilera1500 compositor?1533 book writer1565 penner1568 authorizera1579 bookwright1583 scribe1584 epistler1592 penman1592 scriptora1600 composer1603 book-breeder1605 comprisor?1623 volumist1641 scrivenera1660 literatist1660 knight of the quill1692 belletrist1816 scriever1825 creative writer1854 penworker1876 1583 W. Rainolds Refut. Sundry Reprehensions Pref. 81 Miserabilis librifex, A miserable bookewright, as Luther malapertly nameth king Henry, a learned prince and of famous memory. 1649 R. Gell Stella Nova Ep. Ded. sig. A2 The world is overcharged with an insupportable number of books; and Bookwrights daily add unto the burden. 1799 W. Hales Irish Pursuits of Lit. 139 Here, I will transcribe, for the benefit of such of my readers, as cannot purchase the Hot press'd Edition of that Bookwright Heyne,—that disgrace of the English press. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 139 Not an unskilful compilation..made by Richard Johnson, a noted bookwright in the reign of Elizabeth. 1879 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 268/2 More than one, who has succeeded easily as a bookwright or essayist, has found his equipment and his power of composition inadequate to the off-hand production of compact, polished, well-informed leaders. 1999 Winnipeg Free Press 29 Mar. d4/4 The people of the book are fighting again. It's the National Library of Canada versus the bookwrights—makers of limited-edition, handmade books. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). bookv. Brit. /bʊk/, U.S. /bʊk/ Forms: Old English bocian, early Middle English bocað (3rd singular present indicative, in copy of Old English charter), early Middle English gebocad (past participle, in copy of Old English charter), early Middle English ibocket (south-west midlands, past participle), Middle English boke, Middle English bokien (in copy of Old English charter, transmission error), Middle English–1600s booke, 1500s– book; Scottish pre-1700 buike, pre-1700 buke, pre-1700 bwik, pre-1700 bwke, pre-1700 1700s– book, pre-1700 1800s– buik, 1800s beuk. N.E.D. (1887) also records a form Middle English book. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old Frisian bōkia to bequeath (to the church), Old Icelandic bóka to swear on the bible < the Germanic base of book n.In Old English the prefixed form gebōcian (compare y- prefix) is also attested in sense ‘to grant (land) by charter’ (compare sense 1). Beside weak Class II bōcian (and gebōcian), a corresponding weak Class I verb bēcan (and gebēcan) (with i-mutation of the stem vowel) is also attested in the same sense. I. To record in a book, and related senses. 1. transitive. To grant or assign (land) by charter. Cf. book n. 1d. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [verb (transitive)] > grant by charter or deed bookOE convey1495 assure1572 reassure1592 granta1599 grant1766 deed1816 OE Charter: Bp. Oswald to Wihthelm (Sawyer 1311) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1893) III. 444 Ðonne is þæs landes ealles þe Oswald biscop bocað Wihtelme his þegne. OE Royal Charter: Offa of Mercia to Bishopric of Worcester (Sawyer 118) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1885) I. 327 (heading) Offa cing bocade & gaf Croppaðorn into Wirecestre. lOE Let. of Bp. Denewulf to King Edward the Elder (Sawyer 1444) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1887) II. 282 Hæbbe ic nu æt ðam hiwum fundæn on Wintæceastræ..þæt hie mæ mid ealræ æstæ unnun his mæ ðæt [land] to bociunnæ þinnæ deg. 1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) I. App. k. 413 Ethelwulf, king of Wessex, books the lands of twenty families, not to a subject, but to himself. 1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. i. 5 Land thus granted was said to be ‘booked’ to the grantee, and was called bocland. 1996 E. John Reassessing Anglo-Saxon Eng. i. 14 In the kingdom of the Hwicce..land was booked to churches, real or imaginary, on some scale. 2. a. transitive. To enter in a book or list; to record, register. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > register [verb (transitive)] book?c1225 descrivec1325 registera1393 rollc1440 describea1475 regestc1475 act1492 enregister1523 registrate1570 to book up1577 matriculate1586 imbook1587 muster1587 immatriculate1602 imbreviate1609 re-register1807 to check in or out1918 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 124 Þach þe engel gabriel hefde his burde iboked. c1391 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Bodl. 294) Prol. l. 51* Som newe thing I scholde boke. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke ii. f. xxx That they are regystred or booked emong the subiectes of Ceasar, what other thyng dooe they, but acknowlage a verai state of seruitude and bondage? 1575 Sir N. Breton in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) i How in your heart you may for euer booke it. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 4 The Bardi..thought it not lawfull to write and booke any thing. 1636 A. Cade Serm. Necess. for these Times 60 He keeps his books evenest..that every night books all his receits and expenses. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 183 The Almighty..books their number for an everlasting remembrance. 1710 London Gaz. No. 4677/4 They..saw him [sc. a horse] book'd in the Market Book. 1783 Articles Falkirk Soc. vii. 14 Fines contracted on one meeting-day are payable the next; if contracted between meetings, to be booked and intimated the next meeting. 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xxvii. 256 The storekeeper was obliged to book the nine and a quarter cents, to be paid in ‘sang’ [= ginseng]. 1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. I. x. 247 To seize and book every object worth noticing. 1883 Manch. Examiner 26 Nov. 4/2 Not eager to book fresh orders. 1906 Minister's Gaz. Fashion May 95/2 I need hardly say we did not book that order. 1914 Los Angeles Times 22 Mar. ii. 10/4 The clerk in charge booked the names of 225 applicants for employment. 1983 R. Manning Open Door iii. 31 She was to..act as Finds Assistant, booking the objects discovered on the site. 2009 Wall St. Jrnl. 12 Aug. c12/1 With balance-sheet concerns mitigating, investors should ask which major home builders can again begin to book profits. b. transitive. To enrol, enlist, or recruit, esp. as a soldier or apprentice. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > list > [verb (transitive)] > enter in list billc1305 enrolc1350 putc1436 rollc1440 inbill1461 book1548 cataloguize1609 billet1610 enschedulea1616 catalogize1632 catalogue1635 list1658 schedule1862 handlist1888 society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > enlist (soldiers) [verb (transitive)] wagec1330 musterc1425 to take upc1425 prest1481 to call up1523 conscribe1548 enrol1576 matriculate1577 press1600 in list1604 list1643 recruita1661 enlist1699 crimp1789 to muster into service1834 book1843 induct1934 to read in1938 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Acts v. f. 14 Which had not yet..booked themselues as souldiers. 1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 235 He caused the Marchers to book their men. 1613 S. Hieron Baptizing of Eunuch in Wks. (1620) I. 284 Enrouled and booked among Christians. 1693 in W. Cramond Ann. Banff (1893) II. 3 If the parties buked should stay at drink in cheange houses..they wer to loss their pledges. 1843 United Service Mag. June 202 This is done..to let all the town's-people see that he is booked as a soldier. 1858 M. Reid Ran Away to Sea i. 5 I was booked as an apprentice. 1999 J. Geyer-Kordesch & F. Macdonald Physicians & Surgeons in Glasgow iii. 94 In April 1641, James Young..was booked as apprentice to George Michaelson, surgeon burgess of Glasgow. 3. a. transitive. To record and arrange in advance for the transport of (goods, freight, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > [verb (transitive)] > list goods or people to be conveyed book1752 waybill1843 1752 Villainy Unmask'd 30 Let them be booked and sent safe by the Coach or Waggon. 1829 C. Lamb Let. 25 Mar. in Select. Bernard Barton (1849) 139 The parcel is booked for you this 25th March. 1854 T. De Quincey Eng. Mail Coach (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay II. 299 [It was] not in the way-bill and therefore could not have been booked. 1885 Law Times 80 45/1 His drover..booked them [sc. cattle] to the Nantwich station. 1920 Rep. Kansas State Board Agric. 304 Ocean freight is booked with freight brokers. 1998 A. K. Sharp in R. Heap et al. Food Transportation v. 98 Most airlines..prefer freight to be booked and consolidated by freight forwarders. b. transitive. To accept a reservation from (a passenger, guest, etc.) in advance of a journey, stay, etc.; to issue a ticket for travel to, or assign a reserved room, seat, etc., to; frequently in passive. Also reflexive: to obtain a ticket for travel, a reserved room or seat, etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (reflexive)] > buy ticket or place for oneself book1841 ?1757 Medly 5 He..took a place in the coach, for which he was booked under the name of Breval. 1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook III. v. 63 He booked himself for the following day's coach. 1898 Boston Sunday Globe 4 Sept. 21/8 1500 railroad men and friends are booked for dinner at the Ocean View. 1901 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 29 June 3/1 The Surf Hotel has already booked enough patrons for a successful season. 1919 Living Age 10 May 374/2 One British trans-Atlantic line has booked 60,000 passengers from America to France for the summer. 1961 N.Y. Times 15 Oct. xx. 13/2 We booked ourselves into an attractive hotel in the Virgin Islands. 2011 Independent 2 Nov. 43/3 A policy of offering free transfers to passengers booked to travel over the weekend and on Monday. c. transitive. To reserve for oneself (a seat on a public means of transport, a table in a restaurant, a room in a hotel, etc.) or obtain (a ticket for travel, entertainment, etc.), usually in advance. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (transitive)] > pay to reserve (place, seat, etc.) book1800 1800 Morning Post 6 Jan. He was to have come down last night, and had booked his place. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. iv. 34 I'll give orders for them to book an inside place for the poodle. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxiv. 372 Sam Weller booked for them all. 1887 Truth 22 Sept. 495/2 (advt.) Seats can be booked one month in advance. 1900 Irish Times 2 June 10/8 To-day..is the last day for booking tickets to Lough Bray. 1910 Los Angeles Times 27 Apr. ii. 15/4 They book a room here and then grub around the corner at an A.B.C. [= Aerated Bread Company]. 1925 N.Y. Herald Tribune 4 Oct. iv. 17/4 I booked tickets for that night's performance. 1949 D. Thomas Let. 23 Nov. (1987) 729 I know I should book a plane trip well in advance. 1986 Gourmet June 120/3 A prix fixe pretheater menu that is available to those who book a table between 6 and 6:45 p.m. 1993 Newsweek 25 Jan. a19 (advt.) Sail aboard Alaska's only five-star fleet and save up to $1,000 if you book by January 31, 1993. 2009 V. Coren For Richer for Poorer v. 61 He booked two rooms at his hotel. d. transitive. colloquial. To engage (a person, an act) as a performer, guest, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > hospitality > invitation > invite [verb (transitive)] bidc1200 prayc1300 desirec1325 invite1553 convite1568 indite1599 encourage1728 book1840 to ask back1844 1840 W. Massie Fitzwiggings I. xxx. 277 You must come down and see how it works. Stewkley has the best shooting in Wiltshire. I book you for the season, mind. 1872 Proc. Amer. Philol. Soc. 18 It seems singular to the American to hear an Englishman speak of ‘booking’ his friend for dinner. 1906 Daily Chron. 20 Oct. 7/2 The defendant..wrote: ‘Thanks for calling. I am pleased to book you for four—or it may be five Sundays.’..Mr. ——..said he was engaged at £2. 2. 0 a day. 1961 K. Rexroth in B. Morrow World Outside Window (1987) 195 Almost by definition the good clubs—the ‘jazz rooms’—in the States are those that book the Modern Jazz Quartet. 1976 R. Massey When I was Young xi. 85 There were two theatres in Toronto that booked the Shubert and Klaw and Erlanger touring shows from New York. 2006 N.Y. Mag. 3 Apr. 20/1 Magazine editors gripe about the rings they have to jump through to book the hottest possible celebrities. e. transitive. To arrange or schedule (an appointment, fixture, etc.) in advance. ΚΠ 1890 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 12 Mar. 2/2 The Phillies had booked a game with Yale for the same date, and consequently Boston cancelled the date. 1909 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily News 4 Sept. 2/1 The Andersonville Monument commission is ready to make its final report as soon as the governor can book an appointment. 1966 National Assembly Official Rep. (Republic of Kenya) 9 ii. 1579 I booked an appointment for them with the Minister for Labour and now they have managed to arrive at a very good understanding. 1999 A. Hadley Tough Choices 13 She hardly explained anything to me, such as booking antenatal classes. 2012 Independent 12 Mar. 19/2 Pupils will be able to book appointments with the school nurse by text message and email. 4. a. transitive. In legal contexts: to take down the name of (a person); to enter (a person's name) in a book; spec. (of a police officer) to take the personal details of (a criminal suspect or offender); (colloquial) to apprehend, arrest. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > charge, accuse, or indict [verb (transitive)] > enter name for alleged offence book1761 1761 in W. M. Morison Decisions Court of Session (1806) XIV. 11749 The only error truly committed in the whole of the procedure was, booking him for the whole, in place of that part of the debt that was outstanding. 1841 F. L. Dowling Fistiana 58 The names of individuals of distinction were ‘booked’ for indictment, should the prosecution of the principal..end in a conviction. 1846 R. L. Snowden Magistrate's Assistant 344 Caught, taken, or disposed of: booked. 1902 P. G. Wodehouse Pothunters iii. 49 If he books a chap out of bounds it keeps him happy for a week. 1935 J. Steinbeck Tortilla Flat viii. 122 The police sergeant said he hadn't booked them for a long time. 1961 P. Barry Unwillingly to School xv. 204 If you hadn't been a learner driver..I'd have booked you for that! 1992 Police Chief Feb. 36/3 When booking a suspect, the ForceField II automatically assigns a unique identification number and starts the booking operator in the ‘capture image’ mode. 2007 C. Stross Halting State (2008) 78 Kavanaugh fixed you with a baby-blue gaze so pointed you could have booked her for carrying a sharpie. b. transitive. Sport (chiefly Association Football). Of a referee: to record the name of (a player cautioned for a serious infringement of the rules); to administer such a caution to (a player). Cf. booking n. 2d, yellow card v. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > play association football [verb (transitive)] > actions to player rob1882 book1959 turn1973 card1986 yellow card1996 1959 Daily Mirror 29 Dec. 15/1 Two minutes later Hooper..was booked for fouling goalkeeper Noel Dwyer. 1972 G. Green Great Moments in Sport: Soccer ix. 92 With 25 minutes left Hutchinson was booked. 1986 Times 19 June 46/1 The decision by..the..referee to book William Ayache, a defender, with a second yellow card—which puts him out of the quarter-final—was absurd. 1990 Hobart Mercury (Nexis) 5 July With verbal abuse reports, for which Rattray was also booked, it would seem a good idea for the game's administrators to look at umpires carrying small portable microphones. 2002 Maxim June 220/4 The hapless Mwepa was booked: a straight yellow for stupidity. 5. transitive. colloquial (originally Boxing). To regard as certain, or as a good bet; to determine, destine (to do or for something). Chiefly in passive: to be bound, destined, or certain. ΚΠ 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 15 Book,..‘Booked’; ring mostly, for any event being already settled beforehand, as so certain 'tis already set down in the book of history. 1824 Derby Mercury 31 Mar. Spring is booked to win, and two to one have been betted freely upon him. 1828 Bell's Life in London 11 May Winterflood first threw in his caster, which produced loud huzzas from his numerous friends, who booked him for a winner at a certainty. 1847 Punch 27 Nov. 208/1 The family living is booked for Bob. 1886 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Mar. 303/1 We went to the north'ard, and in less than two years we were back with more oil and seal than any two ships in the north fleet. That booked her [sc. a ship] for good luck. 1902 H. James Wings of Dove I. ix. 212 Such experiences opened to Milly were just those she herself seemed ‘booked’..to miss. 1976 in D. Wepman et al. Life 125 A game all bad motherfuckers were booked to lose. 2003 F. Blassie & K. E. Greenberg Legends of Wrestling 87 In Los Angeles, I was rarely booked to lose. 6. transitive. To record or enter the arrival or departure of (an employee, hotel guest, etc.) in a book. Cf. to book in, to book out at Phrasal verbs. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > work at specific times or periods [verb (transitive)] > record arrival or departure book1899 society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > register [verb (transitive)] > in register of hotel or guest house register1850 book1899 1899 T. Hopkins Idler in Old France 106 A later law required the inn-keeper to book his guests by name. 1902 Daily Chron. 13 May 10/5 Baker's..Bookkeeper.—Young lady required, with good experience, to book men and keep books. II. Other senses. 7. slang. a. transitive (with it) and intransitive. To engage in intense study, esp. in preparation for an examination. Chiefly U.S. in later use. ΚΠ 1727 M. Gibson View State of Churches of Door, Home-Lacy & Hempsted 64 He applied himself very strictly to his Studies... By this Means, he weakned his Constitution to that Degree, that Bishop Laud found it necessary to give him this Advice.., Book it not too much. 1963 Amer. Speech 38 167 To study extremely diligently for an examination: book it. 1968 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3 4 Book... To study, cram.—College students,..Minnesota. 1983 R. Price Breaks 75 I'll be bookin' all day. I'll show you the law school. 1995 Gazette-Tel. (Colorado Springs) 29 Dec. bb 16/1 Bruce Springsteen has been booking it. For his new album..he uses true stories drawn from newspapers..to document America's current class of homeless and disenfranchised. b. transitive (with it) and intransitive. North American. To move quickly; (also) to leave, go away, esp. quickly or abruptly. Frequently with down, out. J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1994) I. 237/2 records an oral use from 1974. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and suddenly windc897 shootc1000 smite?c1225 flatc1300 lash13.. girda1400 shock?a1400 spara1400 spritc1400 whipc1440 skrim1487 glance1489 spang1513 whip1540 squirt1570 flirt1582 fly1590 sprunt1601 flame1633 darta1640 strike1639 jump1720 skite1721 scoot1758 jink1789 arrow1827 twitch1836 skive1854 sprint1899 skyhoot1901 catapult1928 slingshot1969 book1977 1977 SkateBoarder Apr. 71 Blazing trails of animal grace and aggression, Constantineau..ends his performance by booking it through the snake run. 1978 J. Webb Fields of Fire 197 Bagger, you book on out o' here, man. I gotta rap with a brother, hear? 1987 Dirt Wheels Mag. Aug. 46/2 When you're booking down a fast mountain fire road, make sure you know what's round the next bend. 1996 J. Whedon in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Script Bk. (2000) 1st Season I. 26 Buffy. Uh, look, I gotta book. I'll see you guys later. 2000 Calgary (Alberta, Canada) Herald (Nexis) 25 Apr. b1 I've never felt heat like that... We had to run..and try to get the doors open, then book it out of there. 2001 D. Lehane Mystic River 249 She's running full-out, he's gotta be charging after her like a raped ape. I mean, he's booking through that park. †8. transitive. Angling. To put (tackle) in a fly-book. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > [verb (transitive)] > to put in a fishing book book1892 1892 Field 18 June 922/3 We therefore book our cast, and wind up for the day. Phrasal verbs to book in 1. a. transitive. To record or register the arrival of (a person, or occasionally a thing), esp. (in later use) as a hotel guest or a passenger. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > record in writing [verb (transitive)] > enter on record writeOE setc1175 embreve?c1225 enrolc1350 enter1389 rollc1400 enact1467 act1475 enchroniclea1513 ascribe1532 re-enter1535 to put down1574 register1597 inscroll1600 emologea1639 spread1823 to book in1860 to sign on1879 log1889 sign1894 to sign out1916 to sign in1924 1860 Morning Post 1 Sept. 7/4 I have ascertained that seven dozen pairs of uppers were booked out to Mrs. Eversham. She returned only five dozen, but Clarke booked in the whole seven dozen, and charged us for them. 1879 York Herald 26 May 7/2 Every time a boy went out with a message he was booked out and in and every minute of time he lost was recorded against him. 1902 Daily Chron. 13 May 10/5 Wanted young lady,..one able to book in. 1956 Manch. Guardian 1 Dec. 6/2 This was the age given by the prisoner to the warder who booked her in. 1977 J. A. Beard Lhasas & Lamas viii. 139 I..stood in the check-in ticket queue. Eventually, after a long wait, Indian Airlines came out to book us in. 2013 M. S. A. Blackwell Lady's not for Taking iv. 27 The receptionist booked them in and the bell boy carried their luggage to their rooms. b. intransitive. Chiefly British and Irish English. To register one's name on arrival, esp. as a hotel guest or passenger. Cf. to check in at check v.¹ 16e. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > arrival > arrive [verb (intransitive)] > record one's arrival to sign in1903 to book in1934 1934 Weekly Irish Times 3 Feb. 2/5 I've booked in at the Midland. 1958 Spectator 22 Aug. 251/1 Booking in immediately before the flight. 1958 Times 3 Sept. 13/4 O'Brien-Greer booked in at the hotel on August 20. 2004 M. Oke Times of our Lives 112 I booked in and the landlord showed me to my room. 2. transitive. To make a reservation, appointment, etc., for (a person, or occasionally a thing); (also) to engage (a person) to perform some task or activity. ΚΠ 1925 Chicago Defender 10 Jan. 6/3 Manager Cummings, who booked them in.., led them to believe that they had a two week's engagement, knowing all the time that it was a one week stand. 1949 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 63/1 The London hotels had a hate on against football teams,..so Con had booked us in at the Grand Palace..as a choral society. 1992 Evening Standard (Nexis) 30 Jan. 19 A friend of mine booked me in for an appointment at the doctors..but I was too shy to go. 2005 Digital Photographer No. 31. 9/5 Continuing on his extremely busy schedule, Kander is booked in to shoot an album cover for the next bright young things of music. 2011 Yorks. Post (Nexis) 31 Aug. I have booked the car in for its yearly MoT. to book off intransitive. To sign an attendance book on going off duty; to request leave, or inform an employer regarding an absence from work. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > work at specific times or periods [verb (intransitive)] > record arrival or departure to sign on1862 to sign off1878 to punch the clock1890 to book off1891 to sign out1903 to clock off1904 to clock on1909 to punch out1913 to clock in1914 to clock out1914 to check in or out1952 1891 Rep. Sel. Comm. Railway Servants 466/1 in Parl. Papers 1890–91 (H.L. 267.) XV That is a case in which they book off, and we put a man on their engine while they are away. 1928 Observer 3 Feb. 12/7 To-night he drives his engine for the last time. To-morrow he ‘books off’..and the Line knows him no more. 1975 Montreal Star 15 May a1 Roving bands of construction men were visiting those sites still active, passing out leaflets and encouraging workers to book off sick. 1998 G. Bowen Verdict in Blood xi. 198 ‘Not on duty,’ he said. ‘Inspector Kequahtooway has booked off on personal business.’ to book out 1. transitive. To borrow or hire (an item); to make a record of this, esp. by noting the name of the borrower. ΚΠ 1860 Morning Post 1 Sept. 7/4 I have ascertained that seven dozen pairs of uppers were booked out to Mrs. Eversham. She returned only five dozen, but Clarke booked in the whole seven dozen, and charged us for them. 1906 Law Times 6 Jan. 223/1 He visited the Humber Motor Manufacturing Works.., and examined the books there. He found that motor-car DU50D was booked out on the 1st Dec..., for trial trips to Addlestone and Woking. 1960 Flying Jan. 58/1 A similar penalty holds true for members taking planes out on extensive trips. If a plane is booked out for a week, the pilot must either fly two hours a day or pay for a minimum of ten hours flying time. 1988 Toronto Star (Nexis) 31 May n21 These library patrons proved avid readers, booking out some 900,000 items over the year. 2007 P. Holmes et al. BTEC National: Media Production ii. 63/1 You arrive at your office to collect the equipment you need only to find that someone else has booked it out. 2. a. transitive. To register the name of (a worker, hotel guest, etc.) on deployment or departure. ΚΠ 1879 York Herald 26 May 7/2 Every time a boy went out with a message he was booked out and in and every minute of time he lost was recorded against him. 1902 Daily Chron. 13 May 10/5 Shopwoman wanted, capable of booking out men. 2011 E. Oglesby Wing & Prayer xx. 69 When I attempted to collect him, I found he was booked out of the hotel. b. intransitive. Chiefly British and Irish English. To register one's departure from a hotel, etc.; to check out. Cf. to check out at check v.¹ 16e. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > record one's departure to sign out1903 to check in or out1918 to book out1966 1966 Irish Times 27 May 3/2 Both had to make hurried arrangements for accommodation, as they had booked out of their hotels. 1995 A. Enright Wig my Father Wore 20 Jo chases flights, while I chase Marie, who has not booked out of the hotel. 2001 P. Killian Dusklands xiii. 138 The hotel informed me that you had already booked out. 3. transitive. To reserve in advance all the seats, rooms, or places available in (a theatre, hotel, etc.). Frequently in passive. Cf. booked out adj. at booked adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1896 Belfast News-let. 16 Mar. 5/8 Once playgoers were satisfied of the excellence of the company there was a rush to the booking office, and boxes, dress circle, and balcony were booked out. 1944 F. L. W. Wood Understanding N.Z. iv. 55 When wartime shortages cut down travel facilities, planes linking the other centers with Wellington were often booked out many months ahead by businessmen. 1988 Nation (N.Y.) 16 Jan. 65/2 It immediately became a hit with the very set it satirizes. The theater was booked out by parties that..are far more likely to be seen at Cats or Les Miserables. 2011 Coolum & N. Shore (Queensland) News (Nexis) 25 Nov. 8 Thousands of people flooded into town for the two-day festival, packing out eateries and booking out accommodation. to book through 1. transitive. To issue (a passenger) with a ticket to cover the whole of a journey which includes a number of transfers or connections; to reserve (a seat) for a journey in this way; to arrange the transport of (luggage) to the end point of a journey. Cf. through adj. 2b. ΚΠ 1786 Morning Post 10 Nov. This is..the only carriage in which places are booked through to the Head. 1839 Railway Times 17 Aug. 635/1 Passengers may be booked through from Derby to London. 1884 Great Western Railway Time Table July 53 Passengers are booked through from Warwick. 1907 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 1 Dec. 488 Passengers for this trip may also be booked through from any Railway Station. 1985 R. Mannheim tr. P. Handke Slow Homecoming 102 Though booked through, Sorger took his suitcase, left the plane, and boarded an already overcrowded bus which carried him over a snowy highway. 1995 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 26 Mar. s17 Baggage can be booked through to final destination only if no change of airport is involved. 2. intransitive. To obtain a ticket to cover the whole of a journey which includes a number of transfers or connections. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > travel on (public vehicle) [verb (intransitive)] > obtain ticket for whole journey to book through1839 1839 Railway Times 17 Aug. 636/1 The Public is informed that arrangements have been made for booking through and proceeding in the same Carriage to and from London and Preston by the London and Birmingham, Grand Junction, and North Union Railways. 1858 Penny Cycl. 2nd Suppl. 565/2 A man may now ‘book through’ from London to so many continental cities. 1913 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 12 249 Merchants from the Hausa states..now book through to Lagos or Baro. 1977 M. Taylor S. Amer. Survival x. 149 Those wishing to go on to Buenos Aires or Chile, should book through to Salta. 2003 P. Harding & B. Thomas Goa (ed. 3) 82/1 Even if you book through to Margao you can get off at any station en route. to book up 1. transitive. To enter in a book or list; to record, register. Also figurative. Cf. sense 2a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > register [verb (transitive)] book?c1225 descrivec1325 registera1393 rollc1440 describea1475 regestc1475 act1492 enregister1523 registrate1570 to book up1577 matriculate1586 imbook1587 muster1587 immatriculate1602 imbreviate1609 re-register1807 to check in or out1918 1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 108/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I They booked vp diuerse complaintes agaynste him [sc. the Lord Gray], which they did exhibit to the king and counsell. 1625 H. Mason Christian Humiliation x. 132 In trading and house-keeping, men thinke it not inough, to booke vp their expences and receipts euery day. 1668 T. Gouge Word to Sinners x. 60 All thy chamber sins, all thy twilight sins.., which thou hast long since forgotten and buried out of thy sight; all these are written and booked up before the Lord against that terrible day. 1874 Ann. Rep. Superintendent Public Instr. Minnesota 1873 209 I have gathered every item of information.., carefully recording the same in a condensed form under appropriate headings in my books, for reference. I have also booked up every item of county school statistics turned over to me by my predecessor. 1884 Builder 20 Sept. 408/1 I am engaged as a cost clerk. Having booked up the time on the various jobs, I next proceed to book up the stores and miscellaneous charges. 1894 C. Winnecke Jrnl. 27 May in Jrnl. Horn Sci. Exploring Exped. to Central Austral. (1896) 9 In the afternoon and evening I was engaged on the expedition plans and in calculating and booking up meteorological observations. 1914 C. W. Terry Motor Body-building xl. 187 The system of providing each day worker with a book to book up his time is adhered to, but I should suggest that ordinary time sheets are simpler. 2. a. intransitive. With adverb, as well, fast, etc. Of a theatre, hotel, etc.: to become fully booked; to become busy or full; (of a person, theatre company, etc.) to have all of one’s available appointments or engagements become booked. Cf. booked up adj. (b) at booked adj. Compounds.Frequently in progressive tenses. ΚΠ 1880 Era 18 July 20/3 (advt.) Mr. George Lewis, the Famous Jolly Little Lewis. Finishes To-night the Wear, Sunderland... Fast booking up for 1881. 1897 Era 20 Nov. 15/4 Mr Oscar Barrett's pantomime Cinderella is already booking up well. Since the box-office was opened..considerably over £4,000 has been taken on advanced bookings. 1901 Showman 1 Nov. 128/1 (advt.) Mr. Malburn is now in England, and booking up very rapidly for the season. 1939 Rotarian Sept. 60/1 (advt.) The accommodations are booking up rapidly and the word to the wise is ‘Act Now’. 1990 Cruise Trav. Jan. 77/1 Popular tours book up fast, so you may have to settle for your second choice. 2003 C. Wroe Actor Prepares 232 I've been a client of Marc's since 1984... Call early in the year for an appointment as he books up quickly. 2012 P. Smith Lead with Story viii. 67 She spent much of her Saturday arranging alternatives for flights and accommodations..that were quickly booking up. b. intransitive. To arrange or reserve a ticket, seat, accommodation, etc., for oneself in advance. Now frequently with for. ΚΠ 1896 Gaze's Tourist Gaz. (N.Y.) Apr. 10/2 We have warned our clients of the importance of securing ocean accommodation owing to the custom obtaining in the United States of booking up long in advance of sailing date. 1920 Rotarian Feb. 70/1 The Rotarians who book up on the American plan will have the American dining room virtually to themselves. 1992 Which? Sept. 524/2 You book up and pay by post..but when you get there, the accommodation is far from five-star. 2004 Daily Tel. 5 Jan. 16/1 Those who love a traditional Nutcracker..could do worse than to book up for the Stanislavsky company from Moscow. c. transitive. To arrange or reserve (a place, ticket, accommodation, etc.) for oneself in advance. ΚΠ 1908 Detroit Free Press 7 Mar. 7/3 The exhibitors..have assured Mr. Moulder that if he is to have charge next year they will engage spaces. Some of them have already booked up spaces for the 1909 show. 1935 Times of India 31 Oct. 4/3 A number of people..have booked up rooms and bungalows for November. 1999 A. Castle Walking River Rhine Trail 21 If it appears there may be problems later in securing accommodation, book it up as you go along. 2004 Coventry Evening Tel. (Nexis) 31 Dec. 53 Start 2005 with a smile on your face and book up tickets for one of the comedy specials heading to Coventry. d. transitive. To engage (a person) for a job, performance, etc. Frequently with infinitive or for. Cf. sense 3d. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [verb (transitive)] > hire or employ hirec1000 i-bye10.. i-hirec1000 soldc1386 takea1400 retain1437 wage1465 conduct1476 fee1488 conduce1502 implya1533 entertain1572 enter1585 wager1592 to fill up1598 to take on1611 improve1640 to speak for ——a1688 employa1727 engage1753 ploy1871 to turn on1893 to book up1915 1915 Sun (Baltimore) 21 Dec. 9/4 He expects to book him up for a 10-round go with Freddie Walsh in Madison Square Garden next month. 1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves iii. 35 Before I went I had been booked up to take brother and the girl for a nice drive that afternoon. 1983 Irish Times 4 Apr. 8/7 I only hope that the National Concert Hall, the RDS and RTE are busy booking him up—before he becomes too expensive. 2007 L. Hodgkinson Compl. Guide to renovating & improving your Property (ed. 2) ii. 62 Whichever method you use to find a building firm..you must take note of the following before booking them up. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.eOEv.OE
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