bookland (bukland)

[Also bockland, often cited in the old legal form bocland, The title to boc - land was based upon the po e ion of a boe , or written grant. D. W. Ro , German Land-holding, Notes, p. 170. This proce 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 signatures of the King and his Witan; land so granted was therefore said to be booked to the grantee, and was known E. A. Freeman , Norm. Conq., I. 64. as bookland . book-learned (bük'ler"ned), a. [ 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. Dryden. 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 scholarship as good natural sense, to distinguish true and false. T. Burnet, Theory of the Earth. little book. Little paper-covered booklets . The Century, XXV. 244.