Book-learned Book"-learned` adjective Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books. [ Often in a disparaging sense.]
Whate'er these book-learned blockheads say,
Solon's the veriest fool in all the play.
Dryden.
Bookbinder Book"bind`er noun One whose occupation is to bind books.
Bookbindery Book"bind`er·y noun A bookbinder's shop; a place or establishment for binding books.
Bookbinding Book"bind`ing noun The art, process, or business of binding books.
Bookcase Book"case` noun A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.
Bookcraft Book"craft` noun Authorship; literary skill.
Booked Booked adjective 1. Registered. 2. On the way; destined. [ Colloq.]
Booker Book"er noun One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper.
Bookful Book"ful noun As much as will fill a book; a book full. Shak. --
adjective Filled with book learning. [ R.] "The
bookful blockhead."
Pope.
Bookholder Book"hold`er noun 1. A prompter at a theater. [ Obsolete]
Beau. & Fl. 2. A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.
Booking clerk Book"ing clerk` A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.
Booking office Book"ing of`fice 1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold. [ Eng.]
Bookish Book"ish adjective 1. Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books. "A
bookish man."
Addison. "
Bookish skill."
Bp. Hall. 2. Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences. --
Book"ish*ly ,
adverb --
Book"ish*ness ,
noun
Bookkeeper Book"keep`er noun One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.
Bookkeeping Book"keep`ing noun The art of recording pecuniary or business transactions in a regular and systematic manner, so as to show their relation to each other, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook , cashbook , journal , and ledger . See Daybook , Cashbook , Journal , and Ledger . Bookkeeping by single entry ,
the method of keeping books by carrying the record of each transaction to the debit or credit of a single account. --
Bookkeeping by double entry ,
a mode of bookkeeping in which two entries of every transaction are carried to the ledger, one to the Dr., or left hand, side of one account, and the other to the Cr., or right hand, side of a corresponding account, in order tha... the one entry may check the other; -- sometimes called, from the place of its origin, the Italian method .
Bookland, Bockland Book"land`, Bock"land` noun [ Anglo-Saxon
b...cland ;
b...c book +
land land.]
(O. Eng. Law) Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.
Bookless Book"less adjective Without books; unlearned. Shenstone.
Booklet Book"let noun A little book. T. Arnold.
Bookmaker Book"mak`er noun 1. One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler. 2. (Horse Racing) A betting man who "makes a book." See To make a book , under Book , noun
Bookman Book"man noun ;
plural Bookmen A studious man; a scholar. Shak.
Bookmark Book"mark` noun Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.
Bookmate Book"mate` noun [
Book +
mate .]
A schoolfellow; an associate in study.
Bookmonger Book"mon`ger noun A dealer in books.
Bookplate Book"plate` noun A label, placed upon or in a book, showing its ownership or its position in a library.
Bookseller Book"sell`er noun One who sells books.
Bookselling Book"sell`ing noun The employment of selling books.
Bookshelf Book"shelf` noun ;
plural Bookshelves A shelf to hold books.
Bookshop Book"shop` noun A bookseller's shop. [ Eng.]
Bookstall Book"stall` noun A stall or stand where books are sold.
Bookstand Book"stand` noun 1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference.
Bookstore Book"store` noun A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.
Bookwork Book"work` noun 1. Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work. 2. Study; application to books.
Bookworm Book"worm` noun 1. (Zoology) Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known. 2. A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation. I wanted but a black gown and a salary to be as mere a bookworm as any there.
Pope.
Booky Book"y adjective Bookish.
Booly Boo"ly noun ;
plural Boolies [ Ir.
buachail cowherd;
bo cow +
giolla boy.]
A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers. [ Obsolete] [ Written also
boley ,
bolye ,
bouillie .]
Spenser.
Boom Boom (bōm)
noun [ Dutch
boom tree, pole, beam, bar. See
Beam .]
1. (Nautical) A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom , the studding-sail boom , etc. 2. (Mech.) A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended. 3. A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor. [ Obsolete]
4. (Mil. & Naval) A strong chain cable, or line of spars bound together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage. 5. (Lumbering) A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away. Boom iron ,
one of the iron rings on the yards through which the studding-sail booms traverse. --
The booms ,
that space on the upper deck of a ship between the foremast and mainmast, where the boats, spare spars, etc., are stowed. Totten.
Boom Boom (bōm)
transitive verb (Nautical) To extend, or push, with a boom or pole; as, to boom out a sail; to boom off a boat.
Boom Boom (bōm)
intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Boomed present participle & verbal noun Booming .] [ Of imitative origin; confer Middle English
bommen to hum, Dutch
bommen to drum, sound as an empty barrel, also W.
bwmp a hollow sound;
aderyn y bwmp , the bird of the hollow sound, i. e., the bittern. Confer
Bum ,
Bump ,
intransitive verb ,
Bomb ,
intransitive verb ]
1. To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects. At eve the beetle boometh
Athwart the thicket lone.
Tennyson.
2. To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon. Alarm guns booming through the night air.
W. Irving.
3. To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind. She comes booming down before it.
Totten.
4. To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.
Boom Boom noun 1. A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming. 2. A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee. [ Colloq. U. S.]
Boom Boom transitive verb To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a "boom" for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator. [ Colloq. U. S.]
Boomdas Boom"das noun [ Dutch
boom tree +
das badger.]
(Zoology) A small African hyracoid mammal ( Dendrohyrax arboreus ) resembling the daman.
Boomer Boom"er noun 1. One who, or that which, booms. 2. (Zoology) A North American rodent, so named because it is said to make a booming noise. See Sewellel . 3. (Zoology) A large male kangaroo. 4. One who works up a "boom". [ Slang, U. S.]
Boomerang Boom"er·ang noun A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward to a considerable height, and finally taking a retrograde direction, so as to fall near the place from which it was thrown, or even far in the rear of it.
Booming Boom"ing adjective 1. Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding. O'er the sea-beat ships the booming waters roar.
Falcone.
2. Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity. [ Colloq. U. S.]
Booming Boom"ing noun The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent rushing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep, hollow sound; as, the booming of bitterns. Howitt.
Boomkin Boom"kin noun (Nautical) Same as Bumkin .
Boomorah Boo"mo·rah noun [ Native name.]
(Zoology) A small West African chevrotain ( Hyæmoschus aquaticus ), resembling the musk deer.
Boomslange Boom"slang·e noun [ Dutch
boom tree +
slang snake.]
(Zoology) A large South African tree snake ( Bucephalus Capensis ). Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.
Boon Boon (bōn)
noun [ Middle English
bone ,
boin , a petition, from Icelandic
bōn ; akin to Swedish & Danish
bän , Anglo-Saxon
bēn , and perhaps to English
ban ; but influenced by French
bon good, from Latin
bonus . √86. See 2d
Ban ,
Bounty .]
1. A prayer or petition. [ Obsolete]
For which to God he made so many an idle boon .
Spenser.
2. That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present. Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above.
James i. 17 (Rev. Ver. ).
Boon Boon adjective [ French
bon . See
Boon ,
noun ]
1. Good; prosperous; as, boon voyage. [ Obsolete]
2. Kind; bountiful; benign. Which . . . Nature boon
Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
Milton.
3. Gay; merry; jovial; convivial. A boon companion, loving his bottle.
Arbuthnot.
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