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6. The second stomach of a ruminating animal.
7. An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid; a decoy. [Cant] Bonnet head (Zoöl.), a shark (Sphyrna tiburio) of the southern United States and West Indies. — Bonnet limpet (Zoöl.), a name given, from their shape, to various species of shells (family Calyptræidæ). — Bonnet monkey (Zoöl.), an East Indian monkey (Macacus sinicus), with a tuft of hair on its head; the munga. — Bonnet piece, a gold coin of the time of James V. of Scotland, the king's head on which wears a bonnet. Sir W. Scott. — To have a bee in the bonnet. See under Bee. — Black bonnet. See under Black. — Blue bonnet. See in the Vocabulary.
BONNET Bon"net, v. i.
Defn: To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover. [Obs.] Shak.
BONNETED Bon"net*ed, a.
1. Wearing a bonnet. "Bonneted and shawled." Howitt.
2. (Fort.)
Defn: Protected by a bonnet. See Bonnet, 4 (a).
BONNETLESS Bon"net*less, a.
Defn: Without a bonnet.
BONNET ROUGE Bon`net" rouge". [F.]
Defn: The red cap adopted by the extremists in the French Revolution, which became a sign of patriotism at that epoch; hence, a revolutionist; a Red Republican.
BONNIBEL Bon"ni*bel, n. Etym: [F. bonne et belle, good and beautiful. Cf. Bellibone.]
Defn: A handsome girl. [Obs.]
BONNIE Bon"nie, a. Etym: [Scot.]
Defn: See Bonny, a.
BONNILASS Bon"ni*lass`, n. Etym: [Bonny + lass.]
Defn: A "bonny lass"; a beautiful girl. [Obs.] Spenser.
BONNILY Bon"ni*ly, adv.
Defn: Gayly; handsomely.
BONNINESS Bon"ni*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being bonny; gayety [R.]
BONNY Bon"ny, a. [Spelled bonnie by the Scotch.] Etym: [OE. boni, prob. fr. F. bon, fem. bonne, good, fr. L. bonus good. See Bounty, and cf. Bonus, Boon.]
1. Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful. Till bonny Susan sped across the plain. Gay. Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr. Burns.
2. Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe. Be you blithe and bonny. Shak. Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matiSir W. Scott.
BONNY Bon"ny, n. (Mining)
Defn: A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.
BONNYCLABBER Bon"ny*clab`ber, n. Etym: [Ir. bainne, baine, milk + clabar mud, mire.]
Defn: Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; — sometimes called simply clabber. B. Jonson.
BON SILENE Bon" Si`lène". Etym: [F.] (Bot.)
Defn: A very fragrant tea rose with petals of various shades of pink.
BONSPIEL Bon"spiel, n. Etym: [Scot.; of uncertain origin.]
Defn: A cur [Scot.]
BONTEBOK Bon"te*bok, n. Etym: [D. bont a sort of skin or fur, prop. variegated + bok buck.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The pied antelope of South Africa (Alcelaphus pygarga). Its face and rump are white. Called also nunni.
BON TON Bon" ton". Etym: [F., good tone, manner.]
Defn: The height of the fashion; fashionable society.
BONUS Bo"nus, n.; pl. Bonuses (. Etym: [L. bonus good. Cf. Bonny.]
1. (Law)
Defn: A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter. Bouvier.
2. An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits.
3. Money paid in addition to a stated compensation.
BON VIVANT Bon" vi`vant"; pl. Bons vivants. Etym: [F. bon good + vivant, p. pr. of vivre to live.]
Defn: A good fellow; a jovial companion; a free liver.
BONY Bon"y, a.
1. Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.
2. Having large or prominent bones. Bony fish (Zoöl.), the menhaden. — Bony pike (Zoöl.), the gar pike (Lepidosteus).
BONZE Bon"ze, n. Etym: [Pg. bonzo, fr. Japan bozu a Buddhist priest: cf. F. bonze.]
Defn: A Buddhist or Fohist priest, monk, or nun.
Note: The name was given by the Portuguese to the priests of Japan, and has since been applied to the priests of China, Cochin China, and the neighboring countries.
BOOBY Boo"by, n.; pl. Boobies. Etym: [Sp. bobe dunce, idiot; cf. L. balbus stammering, E. barbarous.]
1. A dunce; a stupid fellow.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) A swimming bird (Sula fiber or S. 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. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S. piscator, the red-footed booby. (b) A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.
Booby hatch (Naut.), a kind of wooden hood over a hatch, readily removable. — 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 trap, a schoolboy's practical joke, as a shower bath when a door is opened.
BOOBY Boo"by, a.
Defn: Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.
BOOBYISH Boo"by*ish, a.
Defn: Stupid; dull.
BOODH Boodh, n.
Defn: Same as Buddha. Malcom.
BOODHISM Boodh"ism, n.
Defn: Same as Buddhism.
BOODHIST Boodh"ist, n.
Defn: Same as Buddhist.
BOODLE Boo"dle, n. Etym: [Origin uncertain.]
1. The whole collection or lot; caboodle. [Low, U. S.] Bartlett.
2. Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag. [Polit. slang, U. S.]
BOOHOE Boo`hoe", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Boohooed; p. pr. & vb. n. Boohooing.] Etym: [An imitative word.]
Defn: To bawl; to cry loudly. [Low] Bartlett.
BOOHOO Boo"hoo`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The sailfish; — called also woohoo.
BOOK Book, n. Etym: [OE. book, bok, AS. b; akin to Goth. b a letter, in pl. book, writing, Icel. b, Sw. bok, Dan. bog, OS. b, D. boek, OHG. puoh, G. buch; and fr. AS. b, b, 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.
Note: 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.
Note: 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.
2. A composition, written or printed; a treatise. A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. Milton.
3. A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost."
4. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.
5. Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.
Note: 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. 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 (Zoöl.), one of several species of minute, wingless insects injurious to books and papers. They belong to the Pseudoneuroptera. — Book moth (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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. — To course by bell, book, and candle. See under Bell. — 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. — To speak by the book, to speak with minute exactness. — Without book. (a) By memory. (b) Without authority.
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.
BOOK-LEARNED Book"-learned`, a.
Defn: Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books. [Often in a disparaging sense.] Whate'er these book-learned blockheads say, Solon's the veriest fool in all the play. Dryden.
BOOKLESS Book"less, a.
Defn: Without books; unlearned. Shenstone.
BOOKLET Book"let, n.
Defn: A little book. T. Arnold.
BOOKMAKER Book"mak`er, n.
1. One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler.
2. (Horse Racing)
Defn: A betting man who "makes a book." See To make a book, under Book, n.
BOOKMAN Book"man, n.; pl. Bookmen (.
Defn: A studious man; a scholar. Shak.
BOOKMARK Book"mark`, n.
Defn: Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.
BOOKMATE Book"mate`, n. Etym: [Book + mate.]
Defn: A schoolfellow; an associate in study.
BOOKMONGER Book"mon`ger, n.
Defn: A dealer in books.