book 
for the play; I booked through to London. 
[Great Britain.] 2. In Scotland, to register 
in the Session record as a preliminary to the 
proclamation of the lianns of marriage, 
book-account (buk'a-komit"), " 1. An ac- 
count or register of debt or credit in a book. 
2. Specifically, in fcMvr/>i/ii/ by double eu- 
try, an account showing the transactions of a 
merchant in regard to some particular com- 
modity or branch of trade placed under a head- 
ing such as "stock," "cotton," etc., and not 
referred to a person with whom they may have 
I II clTected. 
bookbinder (Trtk'Wn'dte), . [< ME. book- 
hijinlfi- : < bonk + himli'r.] 1. One whose occu- 
pation is the binding of books. 2. A binder 
lor preserving loose printed sheets, etc. See 
hiinlcr, s. Bookbinders' cloth. See cloth. 
boqkbindery (buk'biii'der-i), . ; pi. bookbiml- 
frien (-iz). A place where books are bound. 
bookbinding (buk'bin'ding), n. The opera- 
tion of binding books; the process of securing 
the sheets of a book within a permanent casing 
of bookbinders' board and leather or cloth, or 
other suitable materials, covering the sides and 
back, and jointed at their junction. 
bookcase 1 (buk'kas), n. A case with shelves 
for holding books. 
book-case'n (buk'kas), . In law, a case stated 
or mentioned in legal works; a recorded case; 
a precedent. 
bopk-clamp (buk'klamp), ii. 1. A book- 
binder's vise for holding books in the process of 
binding. 2. A device for carrying books, con- 
sisting generally of two narrow pieces of wood 
or iron, connected by cords attached to a han- 
dle. The books are placed between the pieces, ami wlien 
the handle U turned the cords are tightened and the books 
secured. 
book-debt (buk'det), w. A debt standing 
against a person in an account-book, 
bookery (buk'er-i), . ; pi. bookeries (-iz). [< 
book + -ery.] 1. A collection of books. 
The \Mi.- Morellet . . . has a bookery In such elegant 
order that people l>eg to go and see ft. 
MM?. D'Arblau, Diary, VI. 346. 
2. Study of or passion for books. 
Let them that mean by bookish business 
To earn their bread, or hopeti to profess 
Their hard got skill, let them alone, for me, 
Busy their brains with deeper bookery. 
Bp. Hall, Satires, II. ii. 28. 
[Bare in both uses.] 
book-fair (buk'far), . A fair or market for 
books. The most noted book-fairs arc those of Leipsic 
in Saxony, which occur at Easter and Michaelmas, and at 
which many other objects of commerce are disposed of be- 
sides books. 
book-fold (buk'fold), . A piece of muslin 
containing 24 yards. 
book-formed (buk'formd), . Having the 
mind trained or formed by the study of books ; 
imbued with learning. [Bare.] 
With every tulilf-wit and book-formed sage. J. Baillie. 
bookflllt (buk'ful), n. [< book + -fill, 1.] Full 
of book-knowledge ; stuffed with ideas gleaned 
from books. 
The bookfnl blockhead, ignorantly read. 
With loads of learned lumber in his bead. 
/'"/'. Essay on Criticism, 1. 612. 
bookful (buk'ful), . [< book + -ful, 2.] As 
much as a book contains. Cotcner. 
book-holder (buk'hol''der), w. If. The prompt- 
er at a theater. 
They are out of their parts, snre : it may be 'tis the 
book-holtlrr'* fault ; I'll go see. 
Fletcher ami Rowley, Maid in the Mill, II. 2. 
2. A reading-desk or other device for support- 
ing a book while open. 
book-hunter (buk'nun'ter), M. An eager col- 
lector of books; especially, one who seeks old 
and rare books and editions ; a bibliophile. 
booking-clerk (buk'ing-klerk), H. The clerk or 
official who has charge of a register or book of 
entry; specifically, in Great Britain, a ticket- 
clerk at a railway-station, theater, etc. 
booking-machine (buk'ing-ma-shen*), M. An 
apparatus for making tobacco-leaves into pack- 
ages called books. 
booking-office (buk'ing-of'is), n. In Great 
Britain, an ollice where applications, etc.. arc 
received and entered in a book ; specifically, 
the office in connection with a railway, theater, 
etc., where tickets are sold, or applications for 
them registered. 
bookish (biik'ish), n. [< book + -feftl.] 1. 
Of or pertaining to books ; literary: as, ' ' book- 
ish skill." /.'//. Hull. Satires, II. ii. 19. 2. Given 
to reading ; fond of study ; hence, more ac- 
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qnainted with books than with men ; familiar 
with books, but not with practical life: as, "a 
bookish man," AtMi.ioit. Spectator, No. 48U. 
3. Learned; stilted; pedantic: applied either 
to individuals or to diction: as. a bookish ex- 
pression. 
bookishly (buk'ish-li), adv. In a bookish man- 
ner or way ; studiously ; pedantically. 
she [Christina of Sweden) was l*ikihlii given. 
Lord Tliiirlnir. state Papers, ii. 104. 
bookishness (biik'ish-nes), n. The state or 
quality of being bookish. 
Tile language of high life has always tended to slmpll- 
city and the vernacular Ideal, recoiling from every mode 
of bookithneM. l>r Quinary, Style, i. 
bookkeeper (bnk'ke'per), w. One who keeps 
accounts; one whose occupation is to make a 
formal balanced record of pecuniary transac- 
tions in account-books. 
bookkeeping (buk'ke'piug), . The art of 
recording pecuniary transactions in a regular 
and systematic manner; the art of keeping ac- 
counts in such a manner as to give a permanent 
record of business transactions from which the 
true state or history of one's pecuniary affairs 
or mercantile dealings may at any time be as- 
certained. Properly kept liooks show what a merchant 
lias, what be owes, and what la owing to him, as well as 
what sums he has received and paid, the losses he has in 
cnrred, etc. IJooks are kept according to one of two chief 
methods, viz., by finffle or by double entry. The former 
Is more simple and less perfect than the latter, ami is now 
in use chiefly in retail business. In bookkeeyiivj by single 
entry, three books, a day-lxtok, a cash-book, and a ledger, 
are commonly used, but the essential book ls the leilmT, 
containing accounts under the names of the persons with 
whom a trader deals, goods or money received from any 
one of them being entered on one side of the account, 
called the credit side, and goods sold or money paid to 
that person l>eing entered on the opposite or debit side of 
the account. In bookkeeping by double- entry, the ledger 
accounts are of two kinds, personal accounts such as those 
just descrll>ed, and book-accounts, In which the commod- 
ities dealt in are made the subjects of separate accounts, 
and have a debit and a credit side, as In personal accounts. 
Thus, if a trader purchase 100 bales of cotton from A. B., 
the account in the ledger headed A. B. Is credited with lou 
bales of cotton, so much, while the account headed Cotton 
is debited with the same quantity and amount ; should the 
trader sell 10 bales to C. I)., the account headed C. D. is 
debited with 10 bales at so much, and the account headed 
Cotton Is credited with 10 bales ; and so on. These book- 
accounts are based on the principle that all money and ar- 
ticles received become debtors to him from whom or to 
that for which they are received, and, on the other hand, all 
those who receive money or goods from us become debtors 
to cash or to the goods. In this way every transaction Is 
entered in the ledger on the creditor side of one account 
and on the debtor side of another. The books used in 
double entry vary In number and arrangement according 
to the nature of the business ami the manner of recording 
the facts. Transactions as they take place from day to 
day are generally recorded in such lxx>k as the stock- 
book, cash-book, 1 .i 1H >< .. .k, invoice-book, and sales-book, or 
they may all be recorded in order in a waste-book or day- 
book. I'pon these books or additional document* are 
based the journal and ledger. The former contains a 
periodical altract of all the transactions recorded in 
the subordinate books or in documents not entered in 
these, classified into debits and credits, while the latter 
contains an abstract of all the entries made in the former. 
classified under the heads of their respective accounts. 
book-knowledge (buk'nol'ej), n. Knowledge 
gained by reading books, in distinction from 
that obtained through observation and expe- 
rience. 
bookland (buk'land), . [Also back-land, often 
cited in the old legal form bocland, < AS. hoc- 
land, < boc, charter, book, + land, land.] In 
old Eng. law, charter land, held by deed under 
certain rents and free services; free socage 
land. This species of tenure has given rise to 
the modern freeholds. 
The title to hoc-land was based upon the possession of a 
boc, or written grant. 
D. V. Sow, German Land-holding, Xotes, p. 170. 
This process of turning public property into private 
went on largely in later times. The alienation was now 
commonly made by a document in writing, under the sig- 
natures of the King and his Witan ; land so granted was 
therefore said to be booked to the grantee, and was known 
as booklaml. K. A. Freeman, Norm. Conq., I. 64. 
book-learned (buk'ler'ned), a. [< book + 
learned; cf. ME. bok-ilered, book-taught: see 
teiri.] Versed in books; acquainted with 
books and literature ; hence, better acquainted 
with books than with men and the common 
concerns of life ; bookish. 
Whate'er these book-learned blockheads say, 
Solon's the veriest fool in all the play. Oryden. 
book-learning (buk'ler'ning), n. Learning 
acquired by reading; acquaintance with books 
and literature : generally opposed to knowledge 
gained from experience of men and things. 
Neither does It so much require book-learning and schol- 
arship as good natural sense, to distinguish true nd false. 
T. Biirnft, Theory of the Earth. 
book-post 
bookless Omk'los), a. [< html; + -/.*.] With- 
out books or book-knowledge ; unlearned. 
Theftoo*(M, minterlng youth. .Ww/'ri//*. TheCtaee, I. 
booklet (buk'let), . [< book + dim. -te.] A 
little book. 
Little |>a|*r-covere<l booklet*. The. Century, XXV. 244. 
book-lore (buk'lor), w. Book-learning; know- 
ledge gained from books. 
book-louse (buk'lous), . A minute iicumpter- 
oii- insi-ct <>f the faiiiilv /'-<.</,<. ili-tin^ni-ln-il 
by having the tarsi composed of only two or 
three joints, mid the posterior wings smaller 
than the anterior. M. ->t.-..i 
WillgS, llll'l is \rt\ .Irstriu livr t.> I.I.I hooks. i-i.|>-cildly III 
.him], places, iin.l t < .-II. ' ' i ].l. niti*. etc. 
book-madness (buk'mad'nes), H. A rage for 
]>..--, .-sin;; books; bibliomania. 
book-maker (buk'ma'ker), n. If. A printer 
and binder of books. 2. One who writes and 
publishes books ; especially, a mere compiler. 
AnouUlder whose kuo Icdk''' <'f l*ai Ni|iiwm i* <li-ri\t-.l 
from our old trxt-lxioks and cyclopaedias, or fron ..... n 
resident ttook-maJcerf, may be so for dazed u to imagine 
the Japanese demigods in statecraft, even as the Ameri- 
can newspaper* make them all princes. 
H' K. Urlfin, In N. A. Rev., CXX. MS. 
3. One who makes a book (see book, ., 9) on 
a race or other doubtful event ; a professional 
betting man. See extract. 
In betting there art- two | turtle s one called "layers," as 
the book-maker! arc termed, and the others "backers," In 
which class may Ite included owners of horses as well u 
the public. The backer takes the odds which the book- 
maker lays against a horse, the former s]>ecnlatlng upon the 
success of the animal, the latter upon its defeat ; ami tak- 
ing the case of Cremorne for the Derby of 1872, Just before 
the race, the book-maker would have laid 3 to 1, or [H-rbaiw 
1000 to 300 against him, by which transaction, if the 
horse won, as he did, the backer would win 1000 for 
risking earn, anil the Imik-tnaker lose the 11100 which he 
risked to win the smaller sum. At first night this may ap- 
pear an act of very questionable policy on the part of the 
book-make r ; but really It is not so ; liecause, so for from 
running a greater risk than the backer, he runs less, Inas- 
much as it is his plan to lay the same amount (10011) 
against every horse in the race, and as there can be hut 
one winner, he would in all probability receive more than 
enough money from the many losers to pay the stated sum 
of 1000 which the chances arc he has laid against the one 
winner, whichever it Is. Eng. Kneye. 
book-making (buk'ma'king), n. 1. The busi- 
ness of printing and binding books. 2. The 
writing and publishing of books; the act of 
compiling books. 3. The act or practice of 
making a book on a race or other doubtful 
event. See extract under book-maker, 3. 
bookman (buk'man), H.; pi. bookmen (-men). 
[AS. "bocmaii in def. 1 ; < for, book, charter, + 
man, man.] If. In old Eng. lav, one who held 
bookland. 2. A studious or learned man; a 
scholar; a student; hence, one who is more 
familiar with books than with men and things. 
You two are bookwen : can yon tell by your wit 
What was a mouth old at Cain s birth that's not five weeks 
old yet? Shak., I.. I.. I... Ir. 2. 
There l>e some clergymen who are mere btn-men. 
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, I. 3. 
book-mark (buk'mark), H. A ribbon or other 
device placed between the pages of a book, to 
mark a place where reading is to begin, or to 
which reference is to be made. 
bookmatet (buk'mat), n. A schoolfellow; a 
fellow-student: as, "the prince and his book- 
mates," Shak., L. L. L., iv. 1. 
bookmonger (buk'mung'ger), n. A dealer in 
books. 
book-muslin (buk'muz'lin), n. A fine kind of 
transparent muslin haying a stiff or elastic fin- 
ish: so called from being folded in book form. 
book-name (buk'nam), . In ;ool. and hot., a 
name (other than the technical name) of an 
animal or plant found only in scientific trea- 
tises that is, not in use as a vernacular name. 
It Is often a mere adaptation of the Latin or technical 
term, as paradoxvre for an animal of the genus /'arn- 
doxHm*. 
book-notice (buk'no'tis), n. A short notice or 
review of a book in a magazine or newspaper. 
book-oath (buk'oth), n. An oath made on the 
Bible ; a Bible-oath. 
I put thee now to thy book^ath ; deny it. if thou canst. 
., 2 Hen. IV., 11.1. 
book-plate (buk'plat), . A label, bearing a 
name, crest, monogram, or other design, pasted 
in or on a book to indicate its ownership, its 
position in a library, etc. 
The book-plate* described by W. M. M. are those of the 
libraries founded by Or. Bray in his lifetime and by the 
"Associates of Dr. Bray " since his death. 
\ ,i,ut Q., 6th ser., XII. 152. 
book-post (buk'post), n. An arrangement in 
the British postal service by which books and 
printed matter other than newspapers, as well 
as manuscripts intended for publication, are 
