phrase book

A book in which the phrases or idioms of a language are collected and explained. "To write from a model, not from dictionaries or phrase- books."- Blackie: Self -Culture, p. 36. phrāşe, v. t. & i. [PHRASE, 8.] A. Trans.: To style, to call; to expre in words or a phrase. "As Homer has phras'd it, he look'd like a God." Byrom: Epistle to G. Loyd, Esq. B. Intransitive: *1. Ord. Lang.: To make use of peculiar phrases or expre ions. "So Saint Cyprian phraseth , to expre e effeminate, yomanish, wanton, dishonest, mimic all gestures." Prynne: 2 Histrio - Mastiz , ii. 2. 2. Music : To render music properly with reference to its melodic form; to bring into due prominence the grouping of tones into figures, phrases, sentences, . "The same coarsene , slovenline in phrasing."Athenœum, Feb. 18, 1882.