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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.

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

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

Bookish.

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. [Obs.] [Written also boley, bolye, bouillie.] Spenser.

spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc.

A small African hyracoid mammal (Dendrohyrax arboreus) resembling the daman.

One who, or that which, booms.

he natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the s…

w sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding. O'er the sea-beat ships the booming waters roar. Falcone.

Same as Bumkin.

A small West African chevrotain (Hyæmoschus aquaticus), resembling the musk deer.

A large South African tree snake (Bucephalus Capensis). Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.

A prayer or petition. [Obs.] For which to God he made so many an idle boon. Spenser.

A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.

Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly. -- Boor"ish*ly, adv. -- Boor"ish*ness, n. Which is in truth a gross and boorish opinion. Milton.

See Bort.

To drink excessively. See Booze.

A toper; a guzzler. See Boozer.