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Registered.

One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper.

As much as will fill a book; a book full. Shak. -- a.

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

age, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.

An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.

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

One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.

her, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger. Bookkeeping by single entry, the method of keeping books by carrying the record of each transaction to the debit or credi…

Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.

Without books; unlearned. Shenstone.

A little book. T. Arnold.

One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler.

A studious man; a scholar. Shak.

Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.

A schoolfellow; an associate in study.

A dealer in books.

A label, placed upon or in a book, showing its ownership or its position in a library.

One who sells books.

The employment of selling books.