Book Book, v. t. [imp & p. p. Booked; p. pr. & vb. n. Booking.]

1. To enter, write, or register in a book or list. Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds. Shak.

2. To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.

3. To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory. [Colloq.] Here I am booked for three days more in Paris. Charles Reade.

BOOKBINDER
Book"bind`er, n.

Defn: One whose occupation is to bind books.

BOOKBINDERY
Book"bind`er*y, n.

Defn: A bookbinder's shop; a place or establishment for binding books.

BOOKBINDING
Book"bind`ing, n.

Defn: The art, process, or business of binding books.

BOOKCASE
Book"case` (, n.

Defn: A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.

BOOKCRAFT
Book"craft`, n.

Defn: Authorship; literary skill.

BOOKED
Booked, a.

1. Registered.

2. On the way; destined. [Colloq.]

BOOKER
Book"er, n.

Defn: One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper.

BOOKFUL
Book"ful, n.

Defn: As much as will fill a book; a book full. Shak.
— a.

Defn: 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`.

Defn: 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.

Defn: One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.

BOOKKEEPING
Book"keep`ing, n.

Defn: 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 thaItalian method.

BOOKLAND; BOCKLAND
Book"land`, Bock"land`, n. Etym: [AS. b; b book + land land.] (O.
Eng. Law)

Defn: 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.