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A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.

Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books. "A bookish man." Addison. "Bookish skill." Bp. Hall.

A stand to hold books for reading or reference.

A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation. I wanted but a black gown and a salary to be as mere a bookworm as any there. Pope.

r affair; any person or thing which causes ennui. It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses. Hawthorne.

A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. [Obs.] Silkworms finish their bottoms in . . . fifteen days. Mortimer.

Ready; prepared; destined; tending. [Obs.] Chaucer.

as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain. Before his lord the ready spaniel bounds. Pope. And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Byron.

which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.

To make ready; to prepare; to dress. [Obs.] We will all bowne ourselves for the banquet. Sir W. Scott.

Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.

To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton.

To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.

Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.

To burst. [Obs.] And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser.

An implement for braying and spreading ink in hand printing.

To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day. First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast. Prior.

be pronounces either breathed, voiced, or whispered. H. Sweet. Breathed elements, being already voiceless, remain unchanged

Breadth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or water and butter.