prep. and adv. Above. [ Scot. & Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Aboon the pass of Bally-Brough. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ceiling fair that rose aboon. J. R. Drake. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An A-B-C book; a primer. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A book in which accounts are kept. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ See Bablah. ] (Bot.) Any one of several species of Acacia, esp. Acacia Arabica, which yelds a gum used as a substitute for true gum arabic. [ 1913 Webster ]

In place of Putney's golden gorse
The sickly babul blooms. Kipling. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. babewin, baboin, fr. F. babouin, or LL. babewynus. Of unknown origin; cf. D. baviaan, G. pavian, baboon, F. babine lip of ape, dogs, etc., dial. G. bäppe mouth. ] (Zool.) One of the Old World Quadrumana, of the genera Cynocephalus and Papio; the dog-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Baboonish behavior. Marryat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a baboon. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ ‖ } n. [ Hind. bābū. ] A Hindu gentleman; a native clerk who writes English; also, a Hindu title equivalent to the English Mr. or Esquire. Whitworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Malay bambu, mambu. ] (Bot.) A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The most useful species is Bambusa arundinacea, which has a woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, and grows to the height of forty feet and upward. The flowers grow in large panicles, from the joints of the stalk, placed three in a parcel, close to their receptacles. Old stalks grow to five or six inches in diameter, and are so hard and durable as to be used for building, and for all sorts of furniture, for water pipes, and for poles to support palanquins. The smaller stalks are used for walking sticks, flutes, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To flog with the bamboo. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bamboozled p. pr. & vb. n. Bamboozling ] [ Said to be of Gipsy origin. ] To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug. [ Colloq. ] Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

What oriental tomfoolery is bamboozling you? J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A swindler; one who deceives by trickery. [ Colloq. ] Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

A book kept by a depositor, in which an officer of a bank enters the debits and credits of the depositor's account with the bank. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Com.) A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One of several books of a political character, published at different times and for different purposes; -- so called either from the color of the binding, or from the character of the contents. [ 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 ]

A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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

{ } n. [ AS. bōcland; bōc 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, or an imaginary monster, used to frighten children, etc. “Go to sleep or the Boogeyman will get you.”
Syn. -- Hobgoblin; goblin; specter; ogre; scarecrow; booger; bugaboo; bugbear. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. to show displeasure (after a performance or speech) by making a prolonged sound of “boo”. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. to commit a faux pas or fault.
Syn. -- sin, commit an offence, blunder, goof. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. an ignorant or foolish person.
Syn. -- dumbbell, dummy, dope, booby, pinhead. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a female breast. [ informal or vulgar ]
Syn. -- breast, bosom, knocker, tit, titty. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. an embarrassing mistake.
Syn. -- blunder, blooper, bungle, foul-up, flub, botch, boner, misdoing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a minor injury, such as an abrasion on the skin; -- child's talk. [ PJC ]

n.; pl. Boobies [ Sp. bobo dunce, idiot; cf. L. balbus stammering, E. barbarous. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A dunce; a stupid fellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) A swimming bird (Sula fiber or Sula sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity -- unafraid of men, it allows itself to be caught by a simple and undisguised approach. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, Sula piscator, the red-footed booby; and Sula nebouxii, the blue-footed booby. (b) A species of penguin of the antarctic seas. [ 1913 Webster ]

Booby hatch (a) (Naut.), a kind of wooden hood over a hatch, readily removable. (b), an insane asylum. [ Colloq. ] --
Booby hut, a carriage body put upon sleigh runners. [ Local, U. S. ] Bartlett. --
Booby hutch, a clumsy covered carriage or seat, used in the eastern part of England. Forby. --
Booby prize, an award for the poorest performance in a competition; hence, metaphorically, the recognition of a strikingly inferior or incompetent performance. --
Booby trap (a), a schoolboy's practical joke, as a shower bath when a door is opened. (b), any concealed device causing surprise or injury when a usually harmless object is touched; -- in military operations, typically containing an explosive charge. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Stupid; dull. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Buddha. Malcom. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Buddhism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Buddhist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Origin uncertain. ] 1. The whole collection or lot; caboodle. [ Low, U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag. [ Polit. slang, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

> n. 1. (Music) An instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano).
Syn. -- boogie-woogie. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A black person; -- offensive and disparaging. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

v. i. To do a lively dance, often with the two partners not touching, to the accompaniment of rock music. [ PJC ]

n. (Music), An instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano).
Syn. -- boogie. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Boohooed p. pr. & vb. n. Boohooing. ] [ An imitative word. ] To bawl; to cry loudly. [ Low ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The sailfish; -- called also woohoo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. book, bok, AS. bōc; akin to Goth. bōka a letter, in pl. book, writing, Icel. bōk, Sw. bok, Dan. bog, OS. bōk, D. boek, OHG. puoh, G. buch; and fr. AS. bōc, bēce, beech; because the ancient Saxons and Germans in general wrote runes on pieces of beechen board. Cf. Beech. ] 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. [ 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 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Booked p. pr. & vb. n. Booking. ] 1. To enter, write, or register in a book or list. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

adj. subject to being reserved or booked. all seats bookable in advance
Syn. -- reservable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One whose occupation is to bind books. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bookbinder's shop; a place or establishment for binding books. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art, process, or business of binding books. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Authorship; literary skill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Registered. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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

n. A support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. As much as will fill a book; a book full. Shak. -- a. Filled with book learning. [ R. ] “The bookful blockhead.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A prompter at a theater. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An office where passage tickets are sold. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]