BOOK, n. Like the Latin liber, book signifies primarily bark and beech, the tree being probably named from its bark.
A general name of every literary composition which is printed but appropriately, a printed composition bound a volume. The name is given also to any number of written sheets when bound or sewed together, and to a volume of blank paper, intended for any species of writing, as for memorandums, for accounts, or receipts.
1. A particular part of a literary composition a division of a subject in the same volume.
2. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, &c.
In books, in kind remembrance in favor.
I was so much in his books, that at his decease he left me his lamp.
Without book, by memory without reading without notes as, a sermon was delivered without book. This phrase is used also in the sense of without authority as,a man asserts without book.
BOOK, To enter, write or register in a book.
The King James Bible has stood its ground for nearly 400 years. However, during that time the English language has changed, and with it the meanings of some words it used. Here are more than 6,500 words whose definitions have changed since 1611.Wikipedia
Read More