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class="pron" onmouseover="return m_over('Click for pronunciation key')" onmouseout="m_out()" onclick="pron_key()">(b<img align="absbottom" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20091001062811im_/http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/oobreve.gif">k)</span><div class="pseg"><i>n.</i><div class="ds-list"><b>1. </b> A set of written, printed, or blank pages fastened along one side and encased between protective covers.</div><div class="ds-list"><b>2. </b><div class="sds-list"><b>a. </b> A printed or written literary work.</div><div class="sds-list"><b>b. </b> A main division of a larger printed or written work: <span class="illustration">a book of the Old Testament.</span></div></div><div class="ds-list"><b>3. </b><div class="sds-list"><b>a. </b> A volume in which financial or business transactions are recorded.</div><div class="sds-list"><b>b. </b> <b>books</b> Financial or business records considered as a group: <span class="illustration">checked the expenditures on the books.</span></div></div><div class="ds-list"><b>4. </b><div class="sds-list"><b>a. </b> A libretto.</div><div class="sds-list"><b>b. </b> The script of a play.</div></div><div class="ds-list"><b>5. </b> <b>Book</b><div class="sds-list"><b>a. </b> The Bible.</div><div class="sds-list"><b>b. </b> The Koran.</div></div><div class="ds-list"><b>6. </b><div class="sds-list"><b>a. </b> A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based: <span class="illustration">runs the company by the book.</span></div><div class="sds-list"><b>b. </b> Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.</div><div class="sds-list"><b>c. </b> The total amount of experience, knowledge, understanding, and skill that can be used in solving a problem or performing a task: <span class="illustration">We used every trick in the book to finish the project on schedule.</span></div><div class="sds-list"><b>d. </b> <i>Informal</i> Factual information, especially of a private nature: <span class="illustration">What's the book on him?</span></div></div><div class="ds-list"><b>7. </b> A packet of like or similar items bound together: <span class="illustration">a book of matches.</span></div><div class="ds-list"><b>8. </b> A record of bets placed on a race.</div><div class="ds-list"><b>9. </b> <i>Games</i> The number of card tricks needed before any tricks can have scoring value, as the first six tricks taken by the declaring side in bridge.</div></div><div class="pseg"><i>v.</i> <b>booked</b>, <b>book路ing</b>, <b>books</b> </div><div class="pseg"><i>v.</i><i>tr.</i><div class="ds-list"><b>1. </b> To list or register in or as if in a book.</div><div class="ds-list"><b>2. </b><div class="sds-list"><b>a. </b> To record charges against (a person) on a police blotter.</div><div class="sds-list"><b>b. </b> <i>Sports</i> To record the flagrant fouls of (a player) for possible disciplinary action, as in soccer.</div></div><div class="ds-list"><b>3. </b> To arrange for (tickets or lodgings, for example) in advance; reserve.</div><div class="ds-list"><b>4. </b> To hire or engage: <span class="illustration">The manager booked a magic show for Saturday night.</span></div><div class="ds-list"><b>5. </b> To allocate time for.</div></div><div class="pseg"><i>v.</i><i>intr.</i><div class="ds-single"> To make a reservation: <span class="illustration">Book early if you want good seats.</span></div></div><div class="pseg"><i>adj.</i><div class="ds-list"><b>1. </b> Of or relating to knowledge learned from books rather than actual experience: <span class="illustration">has book smarts but not street smarts.</span></div><div class="ds-list"><b>2. </b> Appearing in a company's financial records: <span class="illustration">book profits.</span></div></div><b><i>Idioms: </i></b><div class="idmseg"> <b><i>bring to book</i></b><div class="ds-single"> To demand an explanation from; call to account.</div></div><div class="idmseg"> <b><i>in (one's) book</i></b><div class="ds-single"> In one's opinion: <span class="illustration">In my book they both are wrong.</span></div></div><div class="idmseg"> <b><i>like a book</i></b><div class="ds-single"> Thoroughly; completely: <span class="illustration">I know my child like a book.</span></div></div><div class="idmseg"> <b><i>one for the books</i></b><div class="ds-single"> A noteworthy act or occurrence.</div></div><div class="idmseg"> <b><i>throw the book at</i></b><div class="ds-list"><b>1. </b> To make all possible charges against (a lawbreaker, for example).</div><div class="ds-list"><b>2. </b> To reprimand or punish severely.</div></div><hr align="left" class="hmshort"><div class="etyseg">[Middle English <tt>bok</tt>, from Old English <tt>b<img align="absbottom" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20091001062811im_/http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/omacr.gif">c</tt>; see <tt> bh<img align="absbottom" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20091001062811im_/http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/amacr.gif">go-</tt> in Indo-European roots.]</div><hr align="left" class="hmshort"><div class="runseg"><b>book<img align="absbottom" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20091001062811im_/http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/prime.gif">er</b><i> n.</i></div><div class="syntx"><b><i>Synonyms: </i></b><b> book</b><b>, bespeak</b><b>, engage</b><b>, reserve</b><br> These verbs mean to cause something to be set aside in advance, as for one's use or possession: <i>will book a hotel room; made sure their selections were bespoken; engaged a box for the opera season; reserving a table at a restaurant.</i></div><div class="wrdhst"><b><i>Word History: </i></b> From an etymological perspective, <i>book</i> and <i>beech</i> are branches of the same tree. The Germanic root of both words is <i>*b<img align="absbottom" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20091001062811im_/http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/omacr.gif">k-,</i> ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning "beech tree." The Old English form of <i>book</i> is <i>b<img align="absbottom" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20091001062811im_/http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/omacr.gif">c,</i> from Germanic <i>*b<img align="absbottom" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20091001062811im_/http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/omacr.gif">k-<img align="absbottom" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20091001062811im_/http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/omacr.gif">,</i> "written document, book." The Old English form of <i>beech</i> is <i>b<img align="absbottom" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20091001062811im_/http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/emacr.gif">ce,</i> from Germanic <i>*b<img align="absbottom" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20091001062811im_/http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/omacr.gif">k-j<img align="absbottom" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20091001062811im_/http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/omacr.gif">n,</i> "beech tree," because the early Germanic peoples used strips of beech wood to write on. A similar semantic development occurred in Latin. The Latin word for book is <i>liber,</i> whence <i>library. Liber,</i> however, originally meant "bark"<img align="absbottom" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20091001062811im_/http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/mdash.gif">that is, the smooth inner bark of a tree, which the early Romans likewise used to write on.</div></td></tr></table><script>hm()</script><hr><span class="hw">Books</span><div class="runseg" style="margin-top:6pt">See also <a href="Authors">authors</a>; <a href="Bible">bible</a>; <a href="Manuscripts">manuscripts</a>; <a href="Printing">printing</a>; <a href="Reading">reading</a>.</div><br><div class="runseg"><a href="abridgment">abridgment</a>, <a href="abridgement">abridgement</a></div><div class="ds-single">a shortened or condensed form of a book, article, etc.</div><div class="runseg"><a href="addendum">addendum</a></div><div class="ds-single">a supplement or appendix added to a book or other written work.</div><div class="runseg"><a href="adversaria">adversaria</a></div><div class="ds-list"><b>1.</b> a commonplace book.<br><b>2.</b> a miscellany, in published or other collected form.</div><div class="runseg"><a href="bibliogenesis">bibliogenesis</a></div><div class="ds-single">bibliogony. — <b>bibliogenetic</b>, <i>adj.</i></div><div class="runseg"><a href="bibliognost">bibliognost</a></div><div class="ds-single">a person who possesses an encyclopedie knowledge of books and bibliography. — <b>bibliognostic</b>, <i>adj.</i></div><div class="runseg"><a href="bibliogony">bibliogony</a></div><div class="ds-single">the making of books; book production. Also <b>bibliogenesis</b>.</div><div class="runseg"><a href="bibliography">bibliography</a></div><div class="ds-list"><b>1.</b> the science that studies the history of books, noting their physical description, publication, and editions.<br><b>2.</b> a list of books on a particular subject or by a particular author.<br><b>3.</b> a list of source materials used or consulted in the preparation of a work or referred to in the text. — <b>bibliographer</b>, <i>n</i>. — <b>bibliographic, bibliographical</b>, <i>adj.</i></div><div class="runseg"><a href="bibliokleptomania">bibliokleptomania</a></div><div class="ds-single">an abnormal compulsion to steal books. <b>Cf. bibliomania</b>. — <b>biblioklept</b>, <i>n</i>.</div><div class="runseg"><a href="bibliolater">bibliolater</a>, <a href="bibliolatrist">bibliolatrist</a></div><div class="ds-single">a person who is excessively fond of books. See also <a href="Bible">bible</a>.</div><div class="runseg"><a href="bibliolatry">bibliolatry</a></div><div class="ds-single">the worship of books, especially the Bible.</div><div class="runseg"><a href="bibliology">bibliology</a></div><div class="ds-list"><b>1.</b> the history of books; bibliography.<br><b>2.</b> the study of the doctrines of the Bible. — <b>bibliologist</b>, n.</div><div class="runseg"><a href="bibliomancy">bibliomancy</a></div><div class="ds-single">a form of divination using books, especially the Bible, in which passages are chosen at random and the future foretold from them.</div><div class="runseg"><a href="bibliomania">bibliomania</a></div><div class="ds-single">an excessive fondness for acquiring and possessing books. — <b>bibliomaniac</b>, <i>n.</i> — <b>bibliomaniacal</b>, <i>adj.</i></div><div class="runseg"><a href="bibliopegy">bibliopegy</a></div><div class="ds-single">the art of binding books. — <b>bibliopegist</b>, <i>n</i>. — <b>bibliopegic</b>. <i>adj.</i></div><div class="runseg"><a href="bibliophage">bibliophage</a></div><div class="ds-single">a bookworm (literally, ’bookeater’). — <b>bibliophagy</b>, <i>n.</i> — <b>bibliophagous</b>, <i>adj.</i></div><div class="runseg"><a href="bibliophilism">bibliophilism</a>, <a href="bibliophily">bibliophily</a></div><div class="ds-single">a love for books, especially for first or fine editions. — <b>bibliophile, bibliophilist</b>, <i>n.</i> — <b>bibliophilic</b>, <i>adj.</i></div><div class="runseg"><a href="bibliophobe">bibliophobe</a></div><div class="ds-single">a person who fears and distrusts books.</div><div class="runseg"><a href="bibliophobia">bibliophobia</a></div><div class="ds-single">an abnormal dislike for books.</div><div class="runseg"><a href="bibliopolism">bibliopolism</a>, <a href="bibliopoly">bibliopoly</a></div><div class="ds-single">the selling of books, especially rare or secondhand volumes. — <b>bibliopole</b>, <b>bibliopolist</b>, <i>n.</i> — <b>bibliopolic</b>, <i>adj.</i></div><div class="runseg"><a href="bibliotaphy">bibliotaphy</a></div><div class="ds-single">the hoarding or hiding of books, often under lock and key. — <b>bibliotaph</b>. <i>n.</i> — <b>bibliotaphic</b>, <i>adj.</i></div><div class="runseg"><a href="bibliothecary">bibliothecary</a></div><div class="ds-single">a librarian.</div><div class="runseg"><a href="bibliotherapy">bibliotherapy</a></div><div class="ds-single">the therapeutic use of reading material in the treatment of nervous diseases. — <b>bibliotherapist</b>, <i>n</i>. — <b>bibliotherapeutic</b>, <i>adj.</i></div><div class="runseg"><a href="breviary">breviary</a></div><div class="ds-single"><i>Catholicism.</i> a book containing the prayers, lessons, etc., needed by a priest for the reading of his daily office.</div><div class="runseg"><a href="chartulary">chartulary</a>, <a href="cartulary">cartulary</a></div><div class="ds-list"><b>1.</b> a book containing charters.<br><b>2.</b> the official in charge of such a 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