Definition of book

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Book (n.) A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing..

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Frontispiece :: Frontispiece (n.) An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself..
Lipogram :: Lipogram (n.) A writing composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; -- as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A in the first book, no B in the second, and so on..
Bookmonger :: Bookmonger (n.) A dealer in books.
Log :: Log (n.) Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book..
Half-bound :: Half-bound (n.) Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book..
Bibliopolar :: Bibliopolar (a.) Of or pertaining to the sale of books.
Penitential :: Penitential (a.) Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears..
Bookbinding :: Bookbinding (n.) The art, process, or business of binding books..
Binder :: Binder (n.) One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books..
Limn :: Limn (v. t.) To illumine, as books or parchments, with ornamental figures, letters, or borders..
Book :: Book (n.) A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of Paradise Lost..
Countercaster :: Countercaster (n.) A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; -- used contemptuously.
Double :: Double (a.) To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle; to fold one part upon another part of; as, to double the leaf of a book, and the like; to clinch, as the fist; -- often followed by up; as, to double up a sheet of paper or cloth..
Missal :: Missal (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mass, or to a missal or Mass book..
Bookmen :: Bookmen (pl. ) of Bookma.
Ecclesiasticus :: Ecclesiasticus (n.) A book of the Apocrypha.
Lamentation :: Lamentation (n.) A book of the Old Testament attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature of its contents..
Order :: Order (n.) Of material things, like the books in a library..
Chelifer :: Chelifer (n.) See Book scorpion, under Book..
Lend :: Lend (v. t.) To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow..
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