English English Dictionary

A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.

An office where passage tickets are sold.

An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.

Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences.

Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.

One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.

The art of recording pecuniary or business transactions in a regular and systematic manner, so as to show their relation to each other, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger.

Alt. of Bockland

Without books; unlearned.

A little book.

One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler.

A betting man who "makes a book." See To make a book, under Book, n.

A studious man; a scholar.

Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.

A schoolfellow; an associate in study.

of Bookman

A dealer in books.

A label, placed upon or in a book, showing its ownership or its position in a library.

One who sells books.

The employment of selling books.