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A dread of books. [R.]

One who sells books.

Of or pertaining to the sale of books. "Bibliopolic difficulties." Carlyle.

The trade or business of selling books.

One who hides away books, as in a tomb. [R.] Crabb.

To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.

One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.

A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.

Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.

Relating to books printed at Deuxponts, or Bipontium (Zweibrücken), in Bavaria.

Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.

Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.

To use evasion. [Obs.] Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch. Bacon.

ly irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature. "Blasphemous publications." Porteus. Nor from the Holy One of Heaven Refrained his tongue blasphemous. Milton.

Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.

A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope.

A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place.

Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.

See Bookland.

ning to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition. -- Botan"ic*al*ly, adv. Botanic garden, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. -- Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines consist chief…