Queen Katharine had privately prevailed with the pope to advoke the cause to Rome. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. See Jerusalem artichoke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To harden or dry in smoke. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. bound by an agreement to become married to someone.
Syn. -- affianced, betrothed, engaged, pledged, promised(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . .
Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To presage; portend; indicate; mark; note. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edw. III. Bouvier. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Any book which treats of necromancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A book containing a black list. [ PJC ]

8. A book kept by a single man, containing a list of women whom he calls occasionally for a social date; -- usually used in the phrase little black book. [ jocose ] [ PJC ]

2. The United States official “Biennial Register.” [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A composition, written or printed; a treatise. [ 1913 Webster ]

A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of “Paradise Lost.” [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.; -- often used in the plural; as, they got a subpoena to examine our books.
Syn. -- ledger, leger, account book, book of account. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

5. Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of bridge or whist, being the minimum number of tricks that must be taken before any additional tricks are counted as part of the score for that hand; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

6. (Drama) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; -- used in preparing for a performance. Syn. -- script, playscript. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

7. a set of paper objects (tickets, stamps, matches, checks etc.) bound together by one edge, like a book; as, he bought a book of stamps. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

8. a book or list, actual or hypothetical, containing records of the best performances in some endeavor; a recordbook; -- used in the phrase
one for the book or
one for the books. Syn. -- record, recordbook. [ PJC ]

9. (Sport) the set of facts about an athlete's performance, such as typical performance or playing habits or methods, that are accumulated by potential opponents as an aid in deciding how best to compete against that athlete; as, the book on Ted Williams suggests pitching to him low and outside. [ PJC ]

10. (Finance) same as book value. [ PJC ]

11. (Stock market) the list of current buy and sell orders maintained by a stock market specialist. [ PJC ]

12. (Commerce) the purchase orders still outstanding and unfilled on a company's ledger; as, book to bill ratio. [ PJC ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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.” Burnet. --
Book louse (Zool.), one of several species of minute, wingless insects injurious to books and papers. They belong to the Pseudoneuroptera. --
Book moth (Zool.), the name of several species of moths, the larvæ of which eat books. --
Book oath, an oath made on The Book, or Bible. --
The Book of Books, the Bible. --
Book post, a system under which books, bulky manuscripts, etc., may be transmitted by mail. --
Book scorpion (Zool.), one of the false scorpions (Chelifer cancroides) found among books and papers. It can run sidewise and backward, and feeds on small insects. --
Book stall, a stand or stall, often in the open air, for retailing books. --
Canonical books. See Canonical. --
In one's books, in one's favor. “I was so much in his books, that at his decease he left me his lamp.” Addison. --
To bring to book. (a) To compel to give an account. (b) To compare with an admitted authority. “To bring it manifestly to book is impossible.” M. Arnold. --
by the book, according to standard procedures; using the correct or usual methods. --
cook the books, make fallacious entries in or otherwise manipulate a financial record book for fraudulent purposes. --
To curse by bell, book, and candle. See under Bell. --
To make book (Horse Racing), to conduct a business of accepting or placing bets from others on horse races. --
To make a book (Horse Racing), 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. --
off the books, not recorded in the official financial records of a business; -- usually used of payments made in cash to fraudulently avoid payment of taxes or of employment benefits. --
one for the book,
one for the books, something extraordinary, such as a record-breaking performance or a remarkable accomplishment. --
To speak by the book, to speak with minute exactness. --
to throw the book at, to impose the maximum fine or penalty for an offense; -- usually used of judges imposing penalties for criminal acts. --
Without book. (a) By memory. (b) Without authority. --
to write the book, to be the leading authority in a field; -- usually used in the past tense; as, he's not just an average expert, he wrote the book. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; to reserve{ 2 }; also, to make an arrangement for a reservation; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater; to book a reservation at a restaurant. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Here I am booked for three days more in Paris. Charles Reade. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make an official record of a charge against (a suspect in a crime); -- performed by police. [ PJC ]

2. On the way; destined. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. reserved in advance; held for future use. See reserve{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

2. A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it. [ 1913 Webster ]