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A license to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; also, in countries subjected to the censorship of the press, approval of that which is published.

e printer or publisher (usually) with the time and place of issue, in the title-page of a book, or on any printed sheet. "That imprint of their hands." Buckle.

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies. Ps. cxix. 36. Incline our hearts to keep this law. Book of Com. Prayer.

A work of art or of human industry, of an early epoch; especially, a book printed before A. D. 1500.

A table for facilitating reference to topics, names, and the like, in a book; -- usually alphabetical in arrangement, and printed at the end of the volume.

nishment of wickedness and vice, and to the maintenance of thy true religion, and virtue. Book of Com. Prayer [Eng. Ed. ] Set honor in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently. Shak. I hope it may indifferently entertain your lordship at an unbending hour. Rowe.

o, or characteristic of, the Inquisition. All the inquisitional rigor . . . executed upon books. Milton.

An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage.

ed in a volume before binding; as: (a) A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of books which is cut off before folding, and set into the middle of the folded sheet to complete the succession of paging; -- also called offcut. (b) A page or pages of advertisements inserted.

Within the sides of; in the interior; contained within; as, inside a house, book, bottle, etc.

That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute. [Obs.] There is another manuscript, of above three hundred years old, . . . being an institution of physic. Evelyn.

A leaf inserted between other leaves; a blank leaf inserted, as in a book.

or leaves in; to bind with blank leaves inserted between the others; as, to interleave a book.

addition; to write or print something between the lines of; as, to interline a page or a book. Swift.

A book containing interlineations. [R.]

om time to time of international intercourse, being drawn from diplomatic discussion, textbooks, proof of usage, and from recitals in treaties. It is called public when treating of the relations of sovereign powers, and private when of the relations of persons of different nationalities. International law is now, by th…

o alter or corrupt by the insertion of new or foreign matter; especially, to change, as a book or text, by the insertion of matter that is new, or foreign to the purpose of the author. How strangely Ignatius is mangled and interpolated, you may see by the vast difference of all copies and editions. Bp. Barlow. The Athe…

re and there among other things; to insert at intervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book. There, interspersed in lawns and op'ning glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Pope.

The text of a book. [R.] Herrick.

he outside or surface, or access to the inside, or contents; as, to look into a letter or book; to look into an apartment.