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A shelf to hold books.

A bookseller's shop. [Eng.]

A stall or stand where books are sold.

A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall.

A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.

Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work.

Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.

Bookish.

A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side. Totten.

aller than a river or creek. The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. Deut. viii. 7. Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. Shak.

See Water mint.

A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.

A small brook.

A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana. [Formerly written broklempe or broklympe.]

The bank of a brook.

A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.

A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.

A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc. [U. S.] Bartlett.

A book in which is kept a register of money received or paid out.

Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book.