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By the Book(money)

book(1) (iou)



book noun.
[Old English boc = Old Frisian, Old Saxon bok (Dutch boek), Old High German buoh (German Buch), Old Norse bok (cf. Gothic boka letter of the alphabet), from a Germanic base usu. taken to be rel. to BEECH, as the wood of rune-tablets.]
A writing, a written document; a charter, a deed. Long obsolete exc. Hist. OE.
Bible (AV): Jeremiah 32:12 The witnesses, that subscribed the booke of the purchase.
A narrative, a record, a list. OE-L17.
Bible (AV): Genesis 5:1 The booke of the generations of Adam.
A collection of sheets of paper or other material, blank, written, or printed, fastened together so as to form a material whole; esp. one with sheets pasted or sewn together at the edge, with protective covers; a literary composition of any kind long enough to fill one or more such volumes. OE.
commonplace-book, daybook, guidebook, handbook, hymn-book, log-book, notebook, picture-book, prompt-book, scrapbook, service-book, textbook, wordbook, etc.
G. Gissing She must read the best books that had been written on the training of children's minds. Aldous Huxley Life became safe, things assumed meaning, only when they had been translated into words and confined between the covers of a book. R. Hoggart Of another author's books more than six million copies are said to have been sold in three years. K. A. Porter She sits in her deep chair with an open book on her knees.
spec.
a. The Bible. Formerly also, a copy of the Bible. ME.
b. A volume of blank sheets in which financial transactions, minutes, notes, etc., are entered; in pl., accounts, annals, records. LME.
J. Morley The books show that the nett profits..had exceeded 23,000 for the year. B. Hines Just tell him to put it in t' book and I'll pay him at t' week-end.
c. The script of a play, film, etc.; the libretto of an opera, oratorio, etc. L16.
d. A magazine. Now colloq. E19.
e. A record of bets made with several different people on a particular race etc. E19.
P. G. Wodehouse I am still willing to make a little book from time to time to entertain sportsmen and gentlemen.
f. The telephone directory. E20.
A main subdivision of a literary composition; any of the component works forming the Bible. ME.
Shakespeare Henry V In the book of Numbers is it writ. J. Gross As a child, Mill [had]..an entire book of The Faerie Queene read aloud to him.
Book learning, study, scholarship. Now only in pl., passing into sense 3. ME.
Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor My son profits nothing in the world at his book.
b. Benefit of clergy. E17-E18.
fig. Anything from which one may learn or be instructed; an imaginary narrative, record, etc. LME.
Shakespeare Winter's Tale My name put in the book of virtue! J. G. Strutt That great poet to whom the book of Nature..seemed..laid open.
A set of things bound or collected together to resemble a book, e.g. sheets of gold leaf, tickets, matches, stamps, six tricks at cards, etc.; an aggregate of laminar crystals. L15.
Phrases: bell, book, and candle: see BELL noun1. black book: see BLACK adjective. blue book: see BLUE adjective. book of fate the future as being predetermined. book of life Theology the record of those achieving salvation. book of reference: see REFERENCE noun 7. book of words a libretto; a set of rules etc. bring to book call to account. by the book according to the rules; in set phrases. closed book a thing of which one has no understanding. close the books make no further entries, cease business etc. comic book: see COMIC adjective. good book the Bible. have one's nose in a book: see NOSE noun. in someone's bad books, in someone's black books in disfavour with someone. in someone's good books in favour with someone. in my book as I see the matter. know someone like a book have a thorough knowledge of someone's character. make a book: see MAKE verb. not in the book not allowed, irregular. one for the book, one for the end book: see ONE adjective, noun, & pronoun. on the books, upon the books listed as a member etc., on the staff. open book: see OPEN adjective. people of the Book people adhering to a book of divine revelation, spec. the Jews and Christians as regarded by Muslims. read someone like a book understand someone's motives or intentions fully. red book: see RED adjective. SEALED book. Sibylline books: see SIBYLLINE adjective. speak like a book: with full or correct information. suit one's book be convenient to one. symbolical books: see SYMBOLICAL 4. take a leaf out of a person's book: see LEAF noun1. talking book: see TALKING ppl adjective. throw the book at make all possible charges against. upon the books: see on the books above. without book from memory; without authority.
Comb.: bookbinder a person whose trade is bookbinding; bookbindery a bookbinding establishment; bookbinding the binding of books; bookcase a case containing shelves for books; book club a society whose members can buy selected books on special terms; book-craft arch. scholarship; authorship; book-end either of a pair of often ornamental props for keeping a row of books upright; book-fell Hist. a skin prepared for writing on; a vellum or parchment manuscript; book-hand Hist. a formal style of handwriting used by professional transcribers of books before the invention of printing; bookkeep verb intrans. [back-form.] do bookkeeping; bookkeeper a person responsible for keeping the accounts of a trader, public office, etc.; bookkeeping (the art of) keeping accounts; bookland Hist. land granted by charter into private ownership; book-Latin Latin; scholarly language; book-learned adjective knowing books (but lacking practical experience); book learning, book-lore knowledge gained from books, mere theory; book-louse a minute insect of the order Psocoptera, injurious to old books; book-lung a lamellate respiratory organ of an arachnid; bookmaker (a) a professional betting person; a person who manages a betting-shop; (b) (usu. derog.) a compiler of books; (c) a printer and bookbinder; bookmaking the trade or action of a bookmaker; bookman (a) a scholar; (b) an author or publisher, a literary man; bookmobile N. Amer. a mobile library; book-muslin fine muslin (folded like a book when sold in the piece); book name a name for a plant or animal (other than its scientific name) not widely used except in books; book page (a) a page of a book; (b) a page of a newspaper etc. devoted to reviews of books; book-plate a label affixed to a book as a mark of ownership; book-post the transmission of books by post at special lower rates; book-rest an adjustable support for an open book on a table etc.; book-scorpion a small pseudoscorpion, Chelifer caucroides, found in houses; bookseller a dealer in books; bookselling the selling of books, esp. as a trade; bookshop a shop where books are sold; book-shy adjective reluctant or unwilling to read books; bookstack: see STACK noun 1c; bookstall a stall for the sale of books out of doors or in a station etc.; bookstore N. Amer. a bookshop; book token a voucher exchangeable for books costing up to a specified amount of money; book-trough a V-shaped rack for displaying books on a table etc. to show their titles; book value value as entered in a book, as opp. to market value; book-wise adjective = book-learned above; bookwork the studying of textbooks, as opp. to practical work; bookworm (a) a beetle- or moth-larva destructive to books; (b) fig. a person devoted to reading.
bookful noun the entire contents of a book; as much as fills a book: L16.
bookless adjective destitute of books; poet. unscholarly, uneducated: L16.
booklet noun a small book, esp. if paper-covered M19.
booklike adverb & adjective (a) adverb in the manner of a book; (b) adjective resembling (that of) a book: M19.
bookling noun (now rare) a tiny book E19.
booky adjective (colloq.) bookish M19.