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Book"craft` (&?;), n. Authorship; literary skill.

Booked (&?;), a. 1. Registered.

2. On the way; destined. [Colloq.]

Book"er (&?;), n. One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper.

Book"ful (&?;), n. As much as will fill a book; a book full. Shak. -- a. Filled with book learning. [R.] "The bookful blockhead." Pope.

Book"hold`er (&?;), n. 1. A prompter at a theater. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

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

Book"ing clerk` (&?;). A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.

Book"ing of`fice (&?;). 1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.

2. An office where passage tickets are sold. [Eng.]

Book"ish, a. 1. Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books. "A bookish man." Addison. "Bookish skill." Bp. Hall.

2. Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences.

-- Book"ish*ly, adv. -- Book"ish*ness, n.

Book"keep`er (&?;), n. One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.

Book"keep`ing, n. The art of recording pecuniary or business transactions in a regular and systematic manner, so as to show their relation to each other, 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 credit of a single account. -- Bookkeeping by double entry, a mode of bookkeeping in which two entries of every transaction are carried to the ledger, one to the Dr., or left hand, side of one account, and the other to the Cr., or right hand, side of a corresponding account, in order tha&?; the one entry may check the other; -- sometimes called, from the place of its origin, the Italian method.

{ Book"land` (&?;), Bock"land` } (&?;), n. [AS. b&?;cland; b&?;c book + land land.] (O. Eng. Law) 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.

Book"-learned` (&?;), a. 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.

Book"less, a. Without books; unlearned. Shenstone.

Book"let (&?;), n. A little book. T. Arnold.

Book"mak`er (&?;), n. 1. One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler.

2. (Horse Racing) A betting man who "makes a book." See To make a book, under Book, n.

Book"man (&?;), n.; pl. Bookmen (&?;). A studious man; a scholar. Shak.

Book"mark` (&?;), n. Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.

Book"mate` (&?;), n. [Book + mate.] A schoolfellow; an associate in study.

Book"mon`ger (&?;), n. A dealer in books.

Book" mus`lin (&?;). 1. A kind of muslin used for the covers of books.