Booley, Booly

[Ir. buachail, cowherd.) A term sometimes used in Ireland, for a person who has no settled place of abode, and who leads a kind of nomad life. "The same that the Irish boolies are, driving their cattle with them." Spenser. Boom, ( bom ,) n. [A. S. beam; Du. boom ; Ger. baum.] A beam, tree, or pole -( Naut . ) A long pole run out from any part of a ship to stretch the foot of any particular sail; whence, jib - boom , main - boom , studdingsail -boom, . ( Fort .) In marine defences, a strong chain or cable stretched acro the mouth of a river or harbor, to prevent the enemy's ships from entering, and having a number of poles, bars, ., fastened to it whence the name; as, to cut or burst the boom . (Naut.) A pole set up as a sea-mark to point out the channel to seamen, when navigating in shallows. - A hollow, roaring sound; as, the boom of a cannon; the reverberating cry of the bittern. -pl . A space on a ship's upper deck, between the fore and main-masts, where the boats, spare spars, cordage, . are stowed. -v.i. [A. S. by me, a trumpet: Du. bomme, a drum; from the root of bomb.] To make the sound of a trumpet or drum. To rush with violence, as a ship under crowded sail; or, figuratively , to grow rapidly in value or importance. To make a hollow sound like the bittern. "At eve the beetle boometh , Athwart the thick let lone."-Tennyson. -a sort of pawnbroker's sale of odds and ends on which -To roll and roar, as the waves, or the report of a cannon. advances had been made during the dull spring season. -v. t. to push with a spar or boom (as a ve el or a sail); As a natural result trade sales are now practically extinct. -The terms between publisher and author are various, depending largely upon the reputation of the author, 10 per cent. of the retail price is a usual royalty. It is now almost the universal habit to electrotype both books and periodicals, except those for which a limited sale is actually ensured. The old book trade, or the sale of second-hand books, is carried on to a very large extent in our principal cities, often in direct connection with the sale of new stock, and especially books of low manufacturing cost which have formerly had a high list price and may therefore be sold at a startling "reduction." Many second-hand dealers prepare periodically price catalogues of their books, which they circulate through the country, and in this way dispose, of a great many of their books. The price of old books is very fluctuating and capricious, depending in some measure upon their condition or intrinsic value; but frequently equally good copies of the same work may be had at a half or third of the price in some shops, that they can be obtained for in others. In Germany, the great centre of the book-trade is Leipzig, where two great book-fairs are held annually, at Easter and Michael mas respectively. These fairs are not so important, or so largely attended now as formerly, a great part of the busine being effected by means of agents or commi ioners. Every book-seller in Germany has his commi ioner at Leipzig, to whom he transmits copies of all his new publications, and who distributes them among the other commi ioners, for transmi ion to their employers. At the end of the year the unsold works are sent back by the same means to their several publishers. The great advantage of this system is, that every new book, within a few weeks of publication, is made known throughout Germany and France, without having recourse to the expensive system of advertising. The accounts of the various book-sellers are also usually settled by means of the commi ioners. In England and in France, the B. T. is carried on much in the same way, centring respectively in London and Paris.The first American book-seller, mentioned by Thomas in his History of Printing , was Hezekiah Usher, of Boston, known to have been in busine as early as 1652. The first convention of book-sellers for the regulation of trade seems to have been held in Boston, 1724. The American company of book-sellers was founded in 1801. The first book published in America was the Bay Psalm Book , i ued by Stephen Daye, of Cambridge, Ma ., in 1640. In the same year appeared Mrs. Anne Brad street's Poems , the first original American book, reprinted in England in 1650. John Elliott's Catechism and Bible in the Indian language, appeared in 1659 and 1663 respectively. Christian Sauer published a Bible in German in 1743, at German town, now a part of Philadelphia. The first American book-seller on record hence, figuratively, to push forward, to advertise energetically (as a speculation, candidature, .). Boom ( bome ), a town of Belgium, 10 m. S. of Antwerp, on the Rupel river. It has very extensive brick and tile works. Pop . (1895) 8,926. Boom'er, in Iowa , a township of Pottawattomie county.