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<p><b>3.</b> <def>A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; <as>as, the tenth <ex>book</ex> of "Paradise Lost</as>."</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.</def>

<note>&hand; <i>Book</i> is used adjectively or as a part of many compounds; as, <i>book</i> buyer, <i>book</i>rack, <i>book</i> club, <i>book</i> lore, <i>book</i> sale, <i>book</i> trade, memorandum <i>book</i>, cash<i>book</i>.</note>

<cs><col>Book account</col>, <cd>an account or register of debt or credit in a book.</cd> -- <col>Book debt</col>, <cd>a debt for items charged to the debtor by the creditor in his book of accounts.</cd> -- <col>Book learning</col>, <cd>learning acquired from books, as distinguished from practical knowledge.</cd> "Neither does it so much require <i>book learning<i> and scholarship, as good natural sense, to distinguish true and false." <i>Burnet</i>. -- <col>Book louse</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>one of several species of minute, wingless insects injurious to books and papers. They belong to the <spn>Pseudoneuroptera</spn>.</cd> -- <col>Book moth</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>the name of several species of moths, the larv\'91 of which eat books.</cd> -- <col>Book oath</col>, <cd>an oath made on <er>The Book</er>, or Bible.</cd> -- <col>The Book of Books</col>, <cd>the Bible.</cd> -- <col>Book post</col>, <cd>a system under which books, bulky manuscripts, etc., may be transmitted by mail.</cd> -- <col>Book scorpion</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>one of the false scorpions (<spn>Chelifer cancroides</spn>) found among books and papers. It can run sidewise and backward, and feeds on small insects.</cd> -- <col>Book stall</col>, <cd>a stand or stall, often in the open air, for retailing books.</cd> -- <col>Canonical books</col>. <cd>See <er>Canonical</er>.</cd> -- <col>In one's books</col>, <cd>in one's favor.</cd> "I was so much <i>in his books<i>, that at his decease he left me his lamp." <i>Addison</i>. -- <col>To bring to book</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To compel to give an account.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To compare with an admitted authority.</cd> "<i>To bring<i> it manifestly <i>to book<i> is impossible." <i>M. Arnold</i>. -- <mcol><col>To course by bell</col>, <col>book</col>, <col>and candle</col></mcol>. <cd>See under <er>Bell</er>.</cd> -- <col>To make a book</col> <fld>(Horse Racing)</fld>, <cd>to lay bets (recorded in a pocket book) against the success of every horse, so that the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and loses only on the winning horse or horses.</cd> <cd>-- <col>To speak by the book</col>, <cd>to speak with minute exactness.</cd> -- <col>Without book</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>By memory.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>Without authority.</cd></cs>

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

<hw>Book</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp & p. p.</tt> <er>Booked</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Booking</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To enter, write, or register in a book or list.</def>

<blockquote>Let it be <b>booked</b> with the rest of this day's deeds. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; <as>as, to be <ex>booked</ex> for Southampton; to <ex>book</ex> a seat in a theater.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To mark out for; to destine or assign for; <as>as, he is <ex>booked</ex> for the valedictory</as>.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<blockquote>Here I am <b>booked</b> for three days more in Paris. <i>Charles Reade.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bookbinder</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Book"bind`er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One whose occupation is to bind books.</def>

<h1>Bookbindery</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Book"bind`er*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A bookbinder's shop; a place or establishment for binding books.</def>

<h1>Bookbinding</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Book"bind`ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The art, process, or business of binding books.</def>

<h1>Bookcase</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Book"case`</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.</def>

<h1>Bookcraft</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Book"craft`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Authorship; literary skill.</def>

<h1>Booked</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Booked</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Registered.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>On the way; destined.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<h1>Booker</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Book"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper.</def>

<h1>Bookful</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Book"ful</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>As much as will fill a book; a book full.</def> <i>Shak</i>. -- <def2><tt>a.</tt> <def> Filled with book learning.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "The <i>bookful</i> blockhead."</def2>