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ely, or any specific class of them, as jockeys, gamblers, prize fighters, etc. At a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the fancy. De Quincey.

A division of a book.

make or find. Johnson. Finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy and felicity. Book of Common Prayer.

A measure of land mentioned in Domesday Book. It is supposed to have consisted of a few acres only. [Obs.]

An end; conclusion. It is often placed at the end of a book.

ard (Printing Press), the board on which printed sheets are deposited by the fly. -- Fly book, a case in the form of a book for anglers' flies. Kingsley. -- Fly cap, a cap with wings, formerly worn by women. -- Fly drill, a drill having a reciprocating motion controlled by a fly wheel, the driving power being applie…

A leaf of a book or manuscript.

resumed at his discretion. Not being held by any assurance in writing, it was opposed to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed. Mozley & W.

Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He [Prof. Ayton] would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review.

A kind of parchment for book covers. See Forrill.

Form without substance. Such [books] as are mere pieces of formality, so that if you look on them, you look though them. Fuller.

The shape and size of a book; hence, its external form.

A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers, medical formulaæ, etc.; a book of precedents.

The process of putting a book into its cover, and making it ready for the finisher.

Discolored or stained; -- said of timber, and also of the paper of books or engravings.

The state of being foxed or discolored, as books; decay; deterioration.

An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself.

s.), a band in which all the instruments are employed. -- Full binding, the binding of a book when made wholly of leather, as distinguished from half binding. -- Full bottom, a kind of wig full and large at the bottom. -- Full brother or sister, a brother or sister having the same parents as another. -- Full cry (H…

A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology. They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands. Percy.

Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating. Gathering board (Bookbinding), a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book. Knight. -- Gathering coal, a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning. -- Gathering…