English English Dictionary

A shelf to hold books.

of Bookshelf

A bookseller's shop.

A stall or stand where books are sold.

A stand to hold books for reading or reference.

A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall.

A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.

Study; application to books.

Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work.

A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation.

Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.

Bookish.

of Booly

A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers.

To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.

To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a "boom" for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator.

A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee.

To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.

A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming.

To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects.