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principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas.

rth strength. (c) To propose, as a question, a riddle, and the like. (d) To publish, as a book. -- To put forward. (a) To advance to a position of prominence responsibility; to promote. (b) To cause to make progress; to aid.

A quire; a book. [Obs.] " The king's quhair." James I. (of Scotland).

Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size.

of a sacerdotal college of fifteen men whose chief duty was to take care of the Sibylline books.

That which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration. Locke.

as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article.

lly the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book. He reached me a full cap. 2 Esd. xiv. 39.

of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book. Redeth [read ye] the great poet of Itaille. Chaucer. Well could he rede a lesson or a story. Chaucer.

A book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book.

Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.

te payment; cash. "'Tis all the ready money fate can give." Cowley. -- Ready reckoner, a book of tables for facilitating computations, as of interest, prices, etc. -- To make ready, to make preparation; to get in readiness.

One who recites; also, a book of extracts for recitation.

One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.

riting, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events. Those things that are recorded of him . . . are written in t…

ich refers to something; a specific direction of the attention; as, a reference in a text-book.

A stop or set of pipes in an organ. Parish register, A book in which are recorded the births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials in a parish.

ligion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. Our law forbids at their religious rites My presence. Milton.

on with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair.

gs are disposed in an orderly manner, so that they can be easily found, as the index of a book, a commonplace book, or the like.