Bookbinder
(Book"bind`er) n. One whose occupation is to bind books.
Bookbindery
(Book"bind`er*y) n. A bookbinder's shop; a place or establishment for binding books.
Bookbinding
(Book"bind`ing), n. The art, process, or business of binding books.
Bookcase
(Book"case`) n. A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.
Bookcraft
(Book"craft`) n. Authorship; literary skill.
Booked
(Booked) a.
1. Registered.
2. On the way; destined. [Colloq.]
Booker
(Book"er) n. One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper.
Bookful
(Book"ful) n. As much as will fill a book; a book full. Shak. — a. Filled with book learning.
[R.] "The bookful blockhead." Pope.
Bookholder
(Book"hold`er) n.
1. A prompter at a theater. [Obs.] 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), a.
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, adv. — Book"ish*ness, n.
Bookkeeper
(Book"keep`er) n. One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books
and accounts in an office.
Bookkeeping
(Book"keep`ing), n. 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
