Part 1275

<i>Pope.</i>

<h1>Bookholder</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Book"hold`er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A prompter at a theater.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Beau & Fl.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.</def>

<h1>Booking clerk</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Book"ing clerk`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.</def>

<h1>Booking office</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Book"ing of`fice</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <p><b>1.</b> <def>An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An office where passage tickets are sold.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark>

<h1>Bookish</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Book"ish</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.</def> "A <i>bookish</i> man." <i>Addison</i>. "<i>Bookish</i> skill." <i>Bp. Hall</i>.

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; <as>as, a <ex>bookish</ex> way of talking; <ex>bookish</ex> sentences.</as></def>

-- <wordforms><wf>Book"ish*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Book"ish*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Bookkeeper</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Book"keep`er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.</def>

<h1>Bookkeeping</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Book"keep`ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>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 <i>daybook</i>, <i>cashbook</i>, <i>journal</i>, and <i>ledger</i>. See <er>Daybook</er>, <er>Cashbook</er>, <er>Journal</er>, and <er>Ledger</er>.</def>

<cs><col>Bookkeeping by single entry</col>, <cd>the method of keeping books by carrying the record of each transaction to the debit or credit of a single account.</cd> -- <col>Bookkeeping by double entry</col>, <cd>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 <i>Italian method<i>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Bookland, Bockland</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw><hw>Book"land`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Bock"land`</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>b<?/cland</ets>; <ets>b<?/c</ets> book + <ets>land</ets> land.]</ety> <fld>(O. Eng. Law)</fld> <def>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.</def>

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

<hw>Book"-learned`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books.</def> <mark>[Often in a disparaging sense.]</mark>

<blockquote>Whate'er these <b>book-learned</b> blockheads say, Solon's the veriest fool in all the play. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bookless</h1> <Xpage=166>

<hw>Book"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Without books; unlearned.</def>

<i>Shenstone.</i>

<h1>Booklet</h1> <Xpage=166>