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The book used by a prompter of a theater.

A book used in schools for learning lessons.

A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept.

A book in which a tradesman keeps his accounts. Locke.

A book of sketches or for sketches.

A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.

A genealogical register of a particular breed or stud of horses, esp. thoroughbreds.

A tablet; a notebook. Put into your tablebook whatever you judge worthly. Dryden.

A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for notes.

Not written in a book; unrecorded. "UnbookedEnglish life." Masson.

A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.

A collection of words; a vocabulary; a dictionary; a lexicon.

A book published yearly; any annual report or summary of the statistics or facts of a year, designed to be used as a reference book; as, the Congregational Yearbook.

In France, an official government publication bound in yellow covers.

The simplest rudiments of any subject; as, the A B C of finance. A B C book, a primer. Shak.

Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.

An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation. Ancient coins as abridgments of history. Addison.

er thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief. An abstract of every treatise he had read. Watts. Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled. Ford.

A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria. Bp. Bull.

A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.