Search the Dictionary

A book of benedictions.

Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.

To see; to look; to mind. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look. -- Be*seech"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seech"ing*ness, n.

Appearance; look; garb. [Obs.] I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak.

To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun. They betook themselves to treaty and submission. Burke. The rest, in imitation, to like arms Betook them. Milton. Whither shall I betake me, where subsist Milton.

To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books. Poe.

t, social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural. Their betters would hardly be found. Hooker. For the better, in the way of improvement; so as to produce improvement. "If I have altered him anywhere for the better." Dryden.

A book. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pertaining to bibliography, or the history of books. -- Bib`li*o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

A history or description of books and manuscripts, with notices of the different editions, the times when they were printed, etc.

A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration. De Quincey.

Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman Catholic divine Coleridge. F. W. Newman.

An account of books; book lore; bibliography.

A mania for acquiring books.

One who has a mania for books. -- a.

Pertaining to a passion for books; relating to a bibliomaniac.

Relating to the binding of books. [R.]

A bookbinder.

Pertaining to the art of binding books. [R.] Dibdin.