booby-hutch 
booby-hutch (bo'bi-huch), n. A clumsy, ill- 
contrived covered carriage used in the eastern 
part of England. 
boobyish (bo'bi-ish), a. [< booby + -fa**.] Re- 
sembling a booby ; silly ; stupid. 
boobyism (bo'bi-izm), . [< booby + -ism.] 
The character or actions of a booby; stupid- 
ity; foolishness. 
The donkeys who are prevailed upon to pay for permis- 
sion to exhibit their lamentable ignorance and boobyism on 
the stage of a private theatre. Dickens, Sketches by Boz. 
bood (bud). A Scotch contraction of behooved. 
Also written buid. 
Boodha, Boodhism, Boodhist, etc. See Bud- 
dha, Buddhism, Buddhist, etc. 
boodle 1 (bo'dl), H. [Also in 17th century (see 
def. 1, first extract) buddle; in the U. S. also by 
apparent corruption caboodle; origin obscure. 
The word agrees in pron. with D. boedel, es- 
tate, possession, inheritance, household goods, 
stuff, lumber, from which, with other slang 
terms, it may have been taken in the Elizabeth- 
an period in the general sense of 'the whole 
property,' 'the whole lot.'] 1. Crowd; pack; 
lot : in a contemptuous sense, especially in the 
phrase the whole kit and boodle. 
Men curiously and carefully chosen out (from all the 
Buddie and masse of great ones) for their approoued wise- 
dome. F. Markham, Bk. of Honour, IV. ii. (N. E. D.) 
He would like to have the whole boodle of them (I re- 
monstrated against this word, but the professor said it 
was a diabolish good word . . . ) with their wives and chil- 
dren shipwrecked on a remote island. 
0. W. Holmen, The Autocrat, p. 139. 
2. Money fraudulently obtained in public ser- 
vice ; especially, money given to or received by 
officials in bribery, or gained by collusive con- 
tracts, appointments, etc. ; by extension, gain 
from public cheating of any kind: often used 
attributively. [Eeceut, U. S.] 
Some years ago, Dr. McDonald, then superintendent of 
Blackwell's Island Asylum, attempted to introduce the 
[Turkish] bath there, but ignorance, politics and boodle 
had more influence with the New York aldermen than 
science or the claims of humanity, and the attempt was 
ultimately abandoned. Alien, and Xenrol., VIII. 239. 
3. Counterfeit money. 
boodle' 2 (bo'dl), n. [Appar. a slaug variation of 
noodle.] A blockhead; a noodle. 
boodle 3 (bo'dl), n. An old English name for 
the corn-marigold, Chrysanthemum segetum. 
Also written buddle. 
boodler (bod'ler), n. [< boodle^ + -e/' 1 .] One 
who accepts or acquires boodle ; one who sells 
his vote or influence for a bribe, or acquires 
money fraudulently from the public. [U. S.] 
boody (bo'di), v. i.; pret. and pp. boodied, ppr. 
boody ing. [Cf. F. bouder, sulk, pout: see bou- 
doir.'] To look angry or gruff. [Colloq.] 
Come, don't boody with me ; don't be angry. 
Trollopt, Barchester Towers, xxvii. 
boof (bof), . Peach-brandy: a word in use 
among the Pennsylvania Germans. 
boohoo 1 (bo'ho'), interj. A word imitating the 
sound of noisy weeping. 
boohoo 1 (bo'ho'), v. i. [< boohoo, interj.'] To 
cry noisily ; blubber outright. 
boohoo 2 (bo-ho'), n. A sailors' name of the His- 
tiophorus americamis, or sail-fish. Also called 
woohoo. 
booid 1 (bo'oid), a. [< boa + -oid.~\ Of or per- 
taining to the Boidw, or family of the boas. 
booid 2 (bo'oid), a. and . [< Booidea.] I. a. 
Of or pertaining to the Booidea; bovine, in a 
broad sense. 
II. H. One of the Booidea. 
Booidea (bo-oi'de-a), n. pi. [NL., < Gr. fiovf, 
an ox, + cMof, appearance, form.] A super- 
family of typical ruminants, the bovine, ovine, 
antilopine, and cervine ruminants collectively, 
as contrasted with other ruminants. The Booi- 
dea typica contain the families Bovidce (with the goats, 
sheep, and antelopes, as well as the oxen), Saigidm, and 
Antilocapridce. The Booidea cervijomnia consist of the 
single family Cervulce. 
book (buk), n. [Early mod. E. also boock, bock; 
< ME. book, booke, boke, bok (north, buk, buke, 
> Sc. buik, beuk, buke), < AS. boc (pi. bee), f., a 
writing, record, charter, book, = OS. bok = 
OFries. bok = MD. boeck, D. boek = OLG. bok, 
LG. book = OHG. buoti, MHG. buoch, G. buch, 
neut., = Icel. bok, f ., = Sw. bok = Dan. bog, 
book, = Goth, boka, f ., bok, neut., a letter of the 
alphabet, pi. a writing, document, book (cf. 
OBulg. bukui, letter, in pi. writing, bukvari, 
abecedarium, Bulg. Russ. bukva, letter; from 
the Teut.), orig. Teut. *boks, a leaf , sheet, or 
tablet for writing ; usually referred, in spite of 
philological difficulties, to AS. (etc.) boc (usually 
in deriv. form bece, beech), cf . AS. bocstwf, early 
624 
mod. E. &ofcsta/(mod. E. as if "bookstaff or "buck- 
staff) (= OS. botetaf = MD. boeckstaf, D. boek- 
staaf = OHG. buolistab, MHG. buochstap, G. 
buchstttbe = Icel. bokstnfr= Sw. Zwfcgta/= Dan. 
bogstav), a letter of the alphabet, lit. appar. 
'beech-staff' AS. boc, beech, + stctf, staff), 
an interpretation resting on the fact, taken in 
connection with the similarity of form between 
AS. (etc.) boc, book, and boc, beech, that in- 
scriptions were made on tablets of wood or 
bark, presumably often of beech (Venantius 
Fortunatus, about A. D. 600, refers to the writ- 
ing of runes on tablets of ash ; cf . L. liber, book, 
liber, bark, Gr. /iifiMov, book, /ft/Mof, book, papy- 
rus : see liber, Bible, paper) ; but AS. bocstaf, if 
lit. ' beech-staff,' would hardly come to be ap- 
plied to a single character inscribed thereon ; it 
is rather 'book-staff,' i. e., a character employed 
in writing, < boc, a writing, + stcef, a letter (cf . 
riin-sta>f, a runic character, stcef-crceft, gram- 
mar). The connection with beech 1 remains un- 
certain: see beech, buck 1 !.] If. A writing; a 
written instrument or document, especially one 
granting land ; a deed. The use of books or written 
charters was introduced in Anglo-Saxon times by the ec- 
clesiastics, as affording more permanent and satisfactory 
evidence of a grant or conveyance of land than the sym- 
bolical or actual delivery of possession before witnesses, 
which was the method then in vogue. 
By that time will our book, I think, be drawn. 
SAai.,lHen. IV.,iii. 1. 
Come, let 's seal the book first, 
For my daughter's jointure. 
Fletcher (and another). Elder Brother, iii. 3. 
Mr. Kemble divides a book, as distinguished from a will, 
contract, or synodal decree, into six parts, I. The Invo- 
cation ; II. The Proem ; III. The Grant ; IV. The Sanc- 
tion; V. The Date; VI. TheTeste. The first, second and 
fourth of these divisions are purely religious, and require 
no detailed examination. Fiveandsix are merelytormal, 
useful only in questions of chronology and genuineness, 
or as proof of the presence of a Witan. The third divi- 
sion is the grant, which contains all the important legal 
matter of the charter. H. Cabot Lodge. 
Lastly, there was bocland, or bookland, the land held in 
several property under the express terms of a written in- 
strument, or 600* as it was then called. 
F. Pollock, Land Laws, p. 22. 
2. A treatise, written or printed on any mate- 
rial, and put together in any convenient form, 
as in the long parchment rolls of the Jews, in 
the bundles of bamboo tablets in use among 
the Chinese before the invention of paper, or 
in leaves of paper bound together, as is usual 
in modern times; a literary composition, espe- 
cially one of considerable length, whether writ- 
ten or printed. 
A good book is the precious life-Wood of a master-spirit 
embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond 
life. Milton, Areopagitica. 
3. Specifically, the Bible. 
Who can give an oath? where is a book? 
Shak., L. L. L., iv. 8. 
4. A collection of written or printed sheets 
fastened or bound together, especially one 
larger than a pamphlet; a volume: as, this 
book is one of a set or series. 5. A particular 
subdivision of a literary composition ; one of 
the larger divisions .used in classifying topics, 
periods, etc. 6. Figuratively, anything that 
serves for the recording of facts or events : as, 
the book of Nature. 
I have been 
The book of his good acts, whence men have read 
His fame unparallel'd. Shak., Cor., v. 2. 
7. A number of sheets of blank writing-paper 
bound together and used for making entries: 
as, a note- or memorandum-ioofc ; specifically, 
such a book used for recording commercial or 
other transactions: as, a day-6oofc, a cash-6oofc, 
a minute-ftooA-, etc. 8. The words of an opera ; 
a libretto (which see). 9. In betting, an ar- 
rangement of bets recorded in a book ; a list of 
bets made against a specific result in a contest 
of any kind: as, to make a book; a thousand- 
dollar book. See book-maker, 3. 10. In leliist, 
six tricks taken by either side. 11. A pile or 
package of tobacco-leaves, arranged with all 
the stems in the same direction. 12. A 
package of gold-leaf, consisting of twenty-five 
leaves laid between sheets of folded paper 
stitched at the back. The leaves are usually 
3f inches square. 
Often abbreviated to bk. 
Back of a book. See back*. Bamboo books. See 
bamboo. Bell, book, and candle. See belli. Black 
book, one of several books, mostly of a political character, 
so called either from the nature of their contents or 
from the color of their binding. Specifically (a) A book 
of the Exchequer in England composed by Nigel, Bishop 
of Ely (died 1169), and wrongly attributed to Gervase of 
Tilbury. It contains a description of the Court of Exche- 
quer as it existed in the reign of Henry II., ite offi- 
cers, their rank and privileges, wages, perquisites, and 
book 
jurisdiction, with the revenues of the crown in money, 
grain, and cattle, (b) A book compiled by order of the 
visitors of monasteries under Henry VIII., containing a 
detailed account of the alleged abuses in religious houses, 
to blacken them and to hasten their dissolution. This 
book disappeared not long after the accomplishment of 
its purpose, (c) A book kept at some universities as a regis- 
ter of faults and misdemeanors ; hence, to be in one's black 
books, to be in disfavor with one. (d) An ancient book of 
admiralty law, always held to be of very high authority, 
compiled in the fourteenth century, (e) A book treating of 
necromancy, or the black art. Blue book, (a) A name 
popularly applied to the reports and other papers printed 
by order of the British Parliament or issued by the privy 
council or other departments of government, because their 
covers are usually blue. The corresponding books of offi- 
cial reports are yellow and blue in France, green in Italy, 
and red and white in various other countries. 
At home he gave himself up to the perusal of blue- 
books. Thackeray. 
(6) In the United States, a book containing the names and 
salaries of all the persons in the employment of the govern- 
ment, (c) The book containing the regulations for the 
government of the United States navy. [Often written 
with a hyphen.) Book of adjournal, concord, disci- 
pline etc. See the nouns. Book of Books, the Bible. 
Book of Homilies. See homily. Book of ties, an 
old name for a weaver's memorandum-book of patterns. 
Formerly . . . the weaver was expected to tie-up or ar- 
range his loom to produce satins, twills, spots, and small 
figures, . . . and if he was a careful man he would have a 
number of the most prevailing patterns drawn in his 
Book of Ties. A. Barlow, Weaving, p. 314. 
Books of Council and Session. See council. By 
book, by the book, by line and rule ; accurately : as, to 
speak by the book. 
There are so many circumstances to piece up one good 
action, that it is a lesson to be good, and we are forced to 
be virtuous by the book. 
Sir T. Bromm, Eeligio Medici, i. 55. 
Canonical books. See canonical. Christ's Book, the 
Gospels. 
A Latiu copy of the Gospels, or, as the Anglo-Saxons 
well called it, a Christ's Book. 
Rock, Church of our Fathers, ii. 357. 
Fleet books. See fleet*. In one's books, in kind re- 
membrance ; in favor ; in mind with reference to future 
favors, gifts, or bequests. 
I must have him wise as well as proper. He comes not 
in my books else. Middleton (and others'), The Widow, i. 1. 
I was so much in hi* books that at his decease he left me 
his lamp. Addition. 
Orderly book. See orderly. Symbolical books. See 
symbolical. The Book Annexed. See annex, !). The 
devil's books or picture-books, playing-cards. 
They sip the scandal potion pretty ; 
Or lee-lang nights wi' crabbit leuks 
Pore owre the devil's pictur'd betiks. 
Burns, The Twa Dogs, 1. 224. 
To balance books. See balance. To bring to book, 
to bring to account. To Close the books, to cease 
making entries for a time, as is done by corporations and 
business concerns when about to declare a dividend, etc. 
To hear a bookt, in the old universities, to attend a 
course of lectures in which the book was read and ex- 
pounded. To speak like a book, to speak accurately, 
or as if from a book ; speak with full and precise informa- 
tion ; hence the similar phrase to know like a book (that 
is, know thoroughly). To suit one's book, to accord 
with one's arrangements or wishes. To take a leaf out 
of one's book, to follow one's example. Without book. 
(a) By memory ; without reading ; without notes : as, a 
sermon delivered without book. 
His writing is more then his reading ; for hee reades 
onely what hee gets without booke. 
Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Young Rawe Preacher. 
(b) Without authority : as, something asserted without 
book. 
book (buk), v. [< ME. boken, < book, n.; cf. 
AS. bocian, give by charter (= OFries. bokia = 
Icel. boka), < boc, book, charter : see book, .] 
1. trans. It. To convey by book or charter. 
It was an infringement of the law to book family or 
hereditary lands. H. Cabot Lodge. 
2. To enter, write, or register in a book; re- 
cord. 
Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 3. 
I always from my youth have endeavoured to get the 
rarest secrets, and book them. B. Jonson, Volpone, ii. 1. 
3. To enter in a list ; enroll; enlist for service. 
This indeede (Eudoxus) hath bene hitherto, and yet is, 
a common order amongest them, to have all the people 
booked by the lordes and gentellmen, but yet it is the 
woorst order that ever was devised. 
5j*/ir, State of Ireland. 
4. To engage or secure beforehand by regis- 
try or payment, as a seat in a stage-coach or a 
box at the opera. 5. To deliver, and pay for 
the transmission of, as a parcel or merchan- 
dise : as, the luggage was booked through to 
London. 6. To reserve accommodation for ; 
receive, and undertake to forward : as, at that 
office passengers (or parcels) were bonked to 
all parts of the world. [In senses 4, 5. and 6, 
confined to the British islands.] 7. To make 
into a book, as gold-leaf, tobacco-leaves, etc. 
Booked at last, caught and disposed of. 
II. intratis. I. To register one's name for 
the purpose of securing something in advance ; 
put one's name down for something: as, to book 
