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A book which treats of the science of botany.

ydom. People born within the sound of Bow-bells are usually called cockneys. Murray's Handbook of London.

To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive.

An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland.

A printed and stitched book containing only a few leaves; a pamphlet.

See Book muslin.

r keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books. Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels. Shak.

Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light- colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.

ucted as to burn at the rate of 120 grains, or 7.8 grams, per hour. -- To curse by bell, book and candle. See under Bell.

One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation. A bookworm, a candlewaster. B. Jonson.

The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a.

or according to a , canon or canons. "The oath of canonical obedience." Hallam. Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catolic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants…

The Song of Songs or Song of Solomon, one of the books of the Old Testament.

One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.

by traversing a district; as, to canvass for subscriptions or for votes; to canvass for a book, a publisher, or in behalf of a charity; -- commonly followed by for.

A chapter, or section, of a book. [Obs.] Holy St. Bernard hath said in the 59th capital. Sir W. Scott.

To clean or clear, as if by using a card. [Obs.] This book [must] be carded and purged. T. Shelton.

To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures.

spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.

storical and inductive study of leading or selected cases, with or without the use of textbooks for reference and collateral reading.