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Bastard :: Bastard (n.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book..

Bibliomaniac :: Bibliomaniac (n.) One who has a mania for books.

Blue Book :: Blue book () A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers..

Pirate :: Pirate (v. t.) To publish, as books or writings, without the permission of the author..

Excerpt :: Excerpt (n.) An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.

Antiphoner :: Antiphoner (n.) A book of antiphons.

Nuncupate :: Nuncupate (v. t.) To dedicate by declaration; to inscribe; as, to nuncupate a book..

Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters..

Geld :: Geld (v. t.) To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate..

Bibliopegist :: Bibliopegist (n.) A bookbinder.

Uncut :: Uncut (a.) Not cut; not separated or divided by cutting or otherwise; -- said especially of books, periodicals, and the like, when the leaves have not been separated by trimming in binding..

Skim :: Skim (v. t.) Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim a book or a newspaper..

Collector :: Collector (n.) A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.

Book :: Book (n.) A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc..

Twenty-fourmo :: Twenty-fourmo (n.) A book composed of sheets, each of which is folded into twenty-four leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book whose sheets are so folded; -- usually written 24mo, or 24?..

Antiphonal :: Antiphonal (n.) A book of antiphons or anthems.

Canto :: Canto (n.) One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.

Black Book :: Black book () 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..

Transcription :: Transcription (n.) The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions..

Back :: Back (n.) The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney..

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