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lose or secret assembly. The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London. Macaulay. To be in conclave, to be engaged in a secret meeting; -- said of several, or a considerable number of, persons.

An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place. His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance. Macaulay.

Plot; action; construction; manner of development. The book of Job, in conduct and diction. Macaulay. Conduct money (Naut.), a portion of a seaman's wages retained till the end of his engagement, and paid over only if his conduct has been satisfactory.

thin specified limits; as, the contents of a cask or bale or of a room; the contents of a book. I shall prove these writings . . . authentic, and the contents true, and worthy of a divine original. Grew.

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register. [Obs.] Johnson.

sy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity. Whole libraries of controversial books. Macaulay.

company." Dryden. I set down, out of long experience in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business. Bacon.

An individual book, or a single set of books containing the works of an author; as, a copy of the Bible; a copy of the works of Addison.

ht may be had in maps, charts, engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books.

The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end. [R.] Bp. Hacket.

A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic. Blount. (b) The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts. [Obs.] Cowell.

A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; -- used conteptuously.

The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business.

t, or spread, upon, about, or over, another thing; an envelope; a lid; as, the cover of a book.

a thing; the quintessence; as. the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures. Welcome, O flower and cream of knights errant. Shelton. Bavarian cream, a preparation of gelatin, cream, sugar, and eggs, whipped; -- to be eaten cold. -- Cold cream, an ointment made of white wax, almond oil,…

this sum is carried to one's credit, and that to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B. Bank credit, or Cash credit. See under Cash. -- Bill of credit. See under Bill. -- Letter of credit, a letter or notification addressed by a banker to his correspondent, informing him that the person named therein is…

itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us. The sothistry which creeps into most of the books of argument. Locke. Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women. 2. Tim. iii. 6.

, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's "Traveler"] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the "Dunciad." Macaulay.

ross-purpose, in the Vocabulary. -- Cross reference, a reference made from one part of a book or register to another part, where the same or an allied subject is treated of. -- Cross sea (Naut.), a chopping sea, in which the waves run in contrary directions. -- Cross stroke, a line or stroke across something, as acr…

The extant copies of the first or earliest printed books, or of such as were printed in the 15th century.