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o class. [Obs.] Passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book. Josh. xviii. 9.

A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for "the clerical profession."

ch despitefully use you. Matt. v. 44. Let us examine him with despitefulness and fortune. Book of Wisdom ii. 19.

to end; to terminate. [Obs.] He who has vented a pernicious doctrine or published an ill book must know that his life determine not together. South. Estates may determine on future contingencies. Blackstone.

A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize. [Harvard Univ., U. S.]

The fifth book of the Pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by Moses.

t is vulgar, common, or narrow. Shakespeare and Plutarch's "Lives" are very devulgarizing books. E. A. Abbott.

Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech. This book is writ in such a dialect As may the minds of listless men affect. Bunyan. The universal dialect of the world. South.

A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary.

A continuous narrative arranged from the first four books of the New Testament.

A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook. I applied myself to the perusal of our writers; and noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated in time the materials of a dictiona…

may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them. Book of Common Prayer.

To dash; to throw violently. [Obs.] To ding the book a coit's distance from him. Milton.

To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. Book of Common Prayer. Fuller.

A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book.

. [Obs.] The life of William Tyndale . . . is sufficiently and at large discoursed in the book. Foxe.

ointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to books or business. Guardian.

Not in order; marked by disorder; disarranged; immethodical; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly state.

A book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic description of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It is usually, but not always, distinguished from a pharmacopoeia in that it issued by private parties, and not by an official body or by government.

se the spirit of. [Obs. or R.] This makes a man master of his learning, and dispirits the book into the scholar. Fuller.