English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Book (n.)

A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.

Book (n.)

A composition, written or printed; a treatise.

Book (n.)

A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.

Book muslin

A kind of thin white muslin for ladies' dresses.

Book muslin

A kind of muslin used for the covers of books.

Book-learned (a.)

Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books.

Bookbinder (n.)

One whose occupation is to bind books.

Bookbindery (n.)

A bookbinder's shop; a place or establishment for binding books.

Bookbinding (n.)

The art, process, or business of binding books.

Bookcase (n.)

A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.

Bookcraft (n.)

Authorship; literary skill.

Booked (imp. & p. p.)

of Book

Booked (a.)

Registered.

Booked (a.)

On the way; destined.

Booker (n.)

One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper.

Bookful (n.)

As much as will fill a book; a book full.

Bookful (a.)

Filled with book learning.

Bookholder (n.)

A prompter at a theater.

Bookholder (n.)

A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.

Booking (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Book