BOOK

n. v.

8 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
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.

2.
n.

A composition, written or printed; a treatise. A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. Milton.

3.
n.

A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost."

4.
n.

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

5.
n.

Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.

6.
v.

To enter, write, or register in a book or list. Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds. Shak.

7.
v.

To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.

8.
v.

To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory. [Colloq.] Here I am booked for three days more in Paris. Charles Reade.


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