book (buk)

[Early mod. E. also boock, bock; Sc. buik, beuk, buke ), tion; V. The Date; VI. The Teste. The first, second and fourth of these divisions are purely religious, and require no detailed examination. Five and six are merely formal, useful only in questions of chronology and genuinene , or as proof of the presence of a Witan. The third division 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 expre terms of a written instrument, or book as it was then called. F. Pollock, Land Laws, p. 22. 2. A treatise, written or printed on any material, 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, especially one of considerable length, whether written or printed. Milton , Areopagitica, A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. 3. Specifically, the Bible. Who can give an oath? where is a book ? Shak ., L. L. L., iv. 3. 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 cla ifying 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- book; specifically, such a book used for recording commercial or other transactions: as, a day - book, a cash - book, a minute- book, etc.-8. The words of an opera; a libretto (which see).-9. In betting, an arrangement 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 whist, 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 3 inches square. Often abbreviated to bk . Back of a book. See back1. Bamboo books. See bamboo. Bell, book, and candle. See bellle Black book, one several books, mostly 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 Exchequer as it existed in the reign of Henry II., its off i 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 di olution. This book disappeared not long after the accomplishment of its purpose. (c) A book kept at some universities as a register 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 i ued by the privy council or other departments of government, because their covers are usually blue. The corresponding books of off i and red and white in various other countries. cial reports are yellow and blue in France, green in Italy, 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, discipline, 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 arrange his loom to produce satins, twills, spots, and small figures, number of the most prevailing patterns drawn in his Book of Ties. ... and if he was a careful man he would have a A. Barlow, Weaving, p. 314. Books of Council and Se ion. 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 le on to be good, and we are forced to be virtuous by the book . Sir T. Browne , Religio Medici, 1. 55. Canonical books. See canonical . - Christ's Book, the Gospels. A Latin 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 fleets. - In one's books, in kind remembrance; 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. Middle ton ( and others ), The Widow, i. 1. I was so much in his books that at his decease he left me his lamp. Add is on , Orderly book. See orderly . - Symbolical books. See symbolical . - The Book Annexed. See annex, v.-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 beuks . 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 busine 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 information; 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. book. Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Young Rawe Preacher. (b) Without authority: as, something a erted without book (buk), v. [ 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; record. Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. &. I always from my youth have endeavoured to get the rarest secrets, and book them. B. Jonson, Volpone, ii. L. 3. To enter in a list; enroll; enlist for service. This indeede (Eudoxus) hath bene hitherto, and yet is, a common order anmongest them, to have all the people booked by the lordes and gen tell men, but yet it is the woorst order that ever was devised. Spenser , State of Ireland. 4. To engage or secure beforehand by registry or payment, as a seat in a stage-coach or a box at the opera.-5. To deliver, and pay for the transmi ion of, as a parcel or merchandise: as, the luggage was booked through to London.-6. To reserve accommodation for; receive, and undertake to forward: as, at that office pa engers (or parcels) were booked 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. in trans. 1. To register one's name for the purpose of securing something in advance; book for the play; I booked through to London. [Great Britain.] -2. In Scotland, to register in the Se ion record as a preliminary to the proclamation of the banns of marriage.