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A composition, written or printed; a treatise. A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. Milton.

A kind of muslin used for the covers of books.

Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books. [Often in a disparaging sense.] Whate'er these book-learned blockheads say, Solon's the veriest fool in all the play. Dryden.

One whose occupation is to bind books.

A bookbinder's shop; a place or establishment for binding books.

The art, process, or business of binding books.

A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.

Authorship; literary skill.

Registered.

One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper.

As much as will fill a book; a book full. Shak. -- a.

A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.

gage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.

An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.

Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books. "A bookish man." Addison. "Bookish skill." Bp. Hall.

One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.

ther, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger. Bookkeeping by single entry, the method of keeping books by carrying the record of each transaction to the debit or cred…

Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.

Without books; unlearned. Shenstone.

A little book. T. Arnold.