| DOB | date of birth; doctor's order book |
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| book | 1. 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. When blank, it is called a blank book. When printed, the term often distinguishes a bound volume, or a volume of some size, from a pamphlet. It has been held that, under the copyright law, a book is not necessarily a volume made of many sheets bound together; it may be printed on a single sheet, as music or a diagram of patterns. 2. A composition, written or printed; a treatise. "A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." (Milton) 3. A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost." 4. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc. 5. Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set. Book is used adjectively or as a part of many compounds; as, book buyer, bookrack, book club, book lore, book sale, book trade, memorandum book, cashbook. Book account, an account or register of debt or credit in a book. Book debt, a debt for items charged to the debtor by the creditor in his book of accounts. Book learning, learning acquired from books, as distinguished from practical knowledge. "Neither does it so much require book learning and scholarship, as good natural sense, to distinguish true and false." . Book louse, to lay bets (recorded in a pocket book) against the success of every horse, so that the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and loses only on the winning horse or horses. To speak by the book, to speak with minute exactness. Without book. By memory. Without authority. Origin: OE. Book, bok, AS. Bc; akin to Goth. Bka a letter, in pl. Book, writing, Icel. Bk, Sw. Bok, Dan. Bog, OS. Bk, D. Boek, OHG. Puoh, G. Buch; and fr. AS. Bc, bce, beech; because the ancient Saxons and Germans in general wrote runes on pieces of beechen board. Cf. Beech. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| book illustrations | Photographs, prints, drawings, portraits, plates, diagrams, facsimiles, maps, tables, or other representations or systematic arrangements of data designed to elucidate or decorate the contents of a publication. (12 Dec 1998) |
| book industry | The aggregate enterprise of manufacturing and technically producing books. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Book syndrome | <syndrome> Premolar aplasia, hyperhidrosis, and premature canities; autosomal dominant trait. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Book, Ian | <person> Swedish geneticist, *1915. See: Book syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bookplates | Labels pasted in books to mark their ownership and sometimes to indicate their location in a library. Private bookplates are often ornate or artistic: simpler and smaller ones bearing merely the owner's name are called "book labels." they are usually pasted on the front endpaper of books. Book owner's identification labels. They are usually intended for pasting inside a book. (12 Dec 1998) |
| books, illustrated | Books containing photographs, prints, drawings, portraits, plates, diagrams, facsimiles, maps, tables, or other representations or systematic arrangement of data designed to elucidate or decorate its contents. (12 Dec 1998) |
| bookworm | 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) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| black book | 1. One of several books of a political character, published at different times and for different purposes; so called either from the colour of the binding, or from the character of the contents. 2. A book compiled in the twelfth century, containing a description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement of the revenues of the crown, etc. 3. A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII, to hasten their dissolution. 4. A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edw. III. 5. A book kept for the purpose of registering the names of persons liable to censure or punishment, as in the English universities, or the English armies. 6. Any book which treats of necromancy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| block book | A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
Synonyms : Classification, Book, Book Classifications, Classifications, Book
Synonyms : Book Collectings, Collecting, Book, Collectings, Book
Synonyms : Book Illustrations (PT)
Synonyms : Book Imprint, Imprint, Book, Imprints, Book
Synonyms : Industry, Book, Book Industries, Industries, Book
| book lung |
organ in many arachnids containing many thin folds of membrane resembling the leaves of a book
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| book lung |
[buk lung] a simple type of lung found in the spiders.
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| book lung |
A set of soft overlapping flaps, covered up by a plate on the abdomen, through which oxygen is taken up and carbon dioxide given off. Characteristic of many terrestrial arachnids such as scorpions and spiders.
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| book l. |
a lunglike invagination that functions as a gas exchange organ, found on the underside of the abdomen of many arachnids, which opens to the surface by means of a spiracle and contains numerous thin membranous lamellae arranged like book leaves.
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| book-lung |
see under lung.
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| book | physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together |
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| book | a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge |
| book | a major division of a long written composition |
| book | a copy of a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together) |
| book | a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone |
| book | a written version of a play or other dramatic composition |
| book | a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made |
| book | a record in which commercial accounts are recorded |
| book | engage for a performance |
| book | record a charge in a police register |
| book | arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance |
| book | register in a hotel booker |
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