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Bookstore: Definition and part of speech

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Bookstore

  1. n. A store where books are kept for sale; — called in England a bookseller’s shop.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bookwork: Definition and part of speech

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Bookwork

  1. n. Study; application to books.
  2. n. Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bookworm: Definition and part of speech

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Bookworm

  1. n. A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation.
  2. n. Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bookmark: Definition and part of speech

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Bookmark

  1. n. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Booly: Definition and part of speech

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Booly

  1. n. A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.