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Admitting of having its place supplied by a like thing or an equivalent; as, the lost book is replaceable.

have thought fit to declare their resentment and good acceptance of the same. The Council Book (1651).

An antiphonary; a response book.

idgment or brief recapitulation. The exellent little résumé thereof in Dr. Landsborough's book. C. Kingsley.

est Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson.

To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse. Both fled attonce, ne ever back returned eye. Spenser.

Specifically, the last book of the sacred canon, containing the prophecies of St. John; the Apocalypse.

To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition.

cations critically, and publishes his opinion upon their merits; a professional critic of books.

The act of revising; reëxamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes.

lly recited, at one time; hence, a division of the Iliad or the Odyssey; -- called also a book.

To come; to offer itself. There chanced to the prince's hand to rise An ancient book. Spenser.

A book containing the rites to be observed.

A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco. DeColange. Roan tree. (Bot.) See Rowan tree.

ling; to plunder; to pillage; to steal from. Who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish Milton. He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robbed at all. Shak. To be executed for robbing a church. Shak.

n order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted. His idolized book, and the whole rosary of his prayers. Milton.

A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult. Shak. This new book the whole world makes such a rout about. Sterne. "My child, it is not well," I said, "Among the graves to shout; To laugh and play among the dead, And make this noisy rout." Trench.

A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut.

mode of treatment; -- said of literature, language, style, and the like. "The rude Irish books." Spenser. Rude am I in my speech. Shak. Unblemished by my rude translation. Dryden.

or other contrivance effecting a similar result; as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book. Ruled surface (Geom.), any surface that may be described by a straight line moving according to a given law; -- called also a scroll.