Part 1273

<cs><col>Booby hatch</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>a kind of wooden hood over a hatch, readily removable.</cd><-- Colloq. An insane asylum. --> -- <col>Booby hut</col>, <cd>a carriage body put upon sleigh runners. <mark>[Local, U. S.]</mark> <i>Bartlett</i>.</cd> -- <col>Booby hutch</col>, <cd>a clumsy covered carriage or seat, used in the eastern part of England.</cd> <i>Forby</i>. -- <col>Booby trap</col>, <cd>a schoolboy's practical joke, as a shower bath when a door is opened.</cd></cs>

<h1>Booby</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Boo"by</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.</def>

<h1>Boobyish</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Boo"by*ish</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Stupid; dull.</def>

<h1>Boodh</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Boodh</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Buddha</er>.</def>

<i>Malcom.</i>

<h1>Boodhism</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Boodh"ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Buddhism</er>.</def>

<h1>Boodhist</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Boodh"ist</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Buddhist</er>.</def>

<h1>Boodle</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Boo"dle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Origin uncertain.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The whole collection or lot; caboodle.</def> <mark>[Low, U. S.]</mark>

<i>Bartlett.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag.</def> <mark>[Polit. slang, U. S.]</mark>

<h1>Boohoe</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Boo`hoe"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Boohooed</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Boohooing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[An imitative word.]</ety> <def>To bawl; to cry loudly.</def> <mark></mark>

<i>Bartlett.</i>

<h1>Boohoo</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Boo"hoo`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The sailfish; -- called also <altname>woohoo</altname>.</def>

<h1>Book</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Book</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>book</ets>, <ets>bok</ets>, AS. <ets>b<?/c</ets>; akin to Goth. <ets>b<?/ka</ets> a letter, in pl. book, writing, Icel. <ets>b<?/k</ets>, Sw. <ets>bok</ets>, Dan. <ets>bog</ets>, OS. <ets>b<?/k</ets>, D. <ets>boek</ets>, OHG. <ets>puoh</ets>, G. <ets>buch</ets>; and fr. AS. <ets>b<?/c</ets>, <ets>b<?/ce</ets>, beech; because the ancient Saxons and Germans in general wrote runes on pieces of beechen board. Cf. <er>Beech</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.</def>

<note>&hand; When blank, it is called a <i>blank book</i>. When printed, the term often distinguishes a bound volume, or a volume of some size, from a pamphlet.</note>

<note>&hand; It has been held that, under the copyright law, a <i>book</i> is not necessarily a volume made of many sheets bound together; it may be printed on a single sheet, as music or a diagram of patterns.</note>

<i>Abbott.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A composition, written or printed; a treatise.</def>

<blockquote>A good <b>book</b> is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>