Absey-book
(n.) An A-B-C book |
Account book
() A book in which accounts are kept. |
Bank book
() A book kept by a depositor, in which an officer of a bank enters the debits and credits of the depositor's account with the bank. |
Bill book
() A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives. |
Black book
() One of several books of a political character, published at different times and for different purposes |
Black book
() A book compiled in the twelfth century, containing a description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement of the revenues of the crown, etc. |
Black book
() A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution. |
Black book
() A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edw. III. |
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. |
Black book
() Any book which treats of necromancy. |
Block book
() A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types. |
Blue book
() A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers. |
Blue book
() The United States official "Biennial Register." |
Book
(n.) A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together |
Book
(n.) A composition, written or printed |
Book
(n.) A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work |
Book
(n.) A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept |
Book
(n.) Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist |
Book
(v. t.) To enter, write, or register in a book or list. |
Book
(v. t.) To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat |
Book
(v. t.) To mark out for |
Book-learned
(a.) Versed in books |
Book muslin
() A kind of muslin used for the covers of books. |
Book muslin
() A kind of thin white muslin for ladies' dresses. |
Edge
(v. t.) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument |
Edge
(v. t.) Any sharp terminating border |
Edge
(v. t.) Sharpness |
Edge
(v. t.) The border or part adjacent to the line of division |
Edge
(v. t.) To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon |
Edge
(v. t.) To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool. |
Edge
(v. t.) To furnish with a fringe or border |
Edge
(v. t.) To make sharp or keen, figuratively |
Edge
(v. t.) To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise |
Edge
(v. i.) To move sideways |
Edge
(v. i.) To sail close to the wind. |
Feather-edge/
(n.) The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster. |
Feather-edge/
(n.) Any thin, as on a board or a razor. |
Fore
(v. i.) Journey |
Fore
(adv.) In the part that precedes or goes first |
Fore
(adv.) Formerly |
Fore
(adv.) In or towards the bows of a ship. |
Fore
(adv.) Advanced, as compared with something else |
Fore
(n.) The front |
Fore
(prep.) Before |
Fore-night
(n.) The evening between twilight and bedtime. |
Fore part
(n.) Alt. of Forepart |
Fore teeth
(pl. ) of Fore tooth |
Fore tooth
() One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth |
Fore-topgallant
(a.) Designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the topmast |
Fore-topmast
(n.) The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. See Ship. |
| painting house painting | the occupation of a house painter, house painting was the only craft he knew |
| painting | the act of applying paint to a surface, you can finish the job of painting faster with a roller than with a brush |
| spray painting | applying paint with a sprayer |
| finger-painting | painting by using the fingers to spread the paint |
| painting | creating a picture with paints, he studied painting and sculpture for many years |
| oil painting | the art or method of painting with oil paints |
book fair
bookfair | bazaar at which books are sold or auctioned off in order to raise funds for a worthy cause |
book scorpion
Chelifer cancroides | minute arachnid sometimes found in old papers |
forewing
fore-wing
fore wing | either of the anterior pair of wings on an insect that has four wings |
booklouse
book louse
deathwatch Liposcelis divinatorius | minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers |
Abstract Expressionism
action painting | a New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions, the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles |
binding
book binding
cover back | the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book, the book had a leather binding |
book
volume | physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together, he used a large book as a doorstop |
| book | a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge, he bought a book of stamps |
| book bag | a bag in which students carry their books |
bow fore
prow
stem | front part of a vessel or aircraft, he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line |
| coffee-table book | an elaborate oversize book suitable for displaying on a coffee table |
| coloring book | a picture book with line drawings intended to be colored with crayons by children |
deckle edge
deckle | rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper |
| edge | a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object, he rounded the edges of the box |
| edge | the outside limit of an object or area or surface, a place farthest away from the center of something, the edge of the leaf is wavy, she sat on the edge of the bed, the water's edge |
| edge tool | any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge) |
| fake book | a fake in the form of an imitation book, used to fill bookcases of people who wish to appear scholarly |
| finger-painting | a painting produced by spreading paint with the fingers |
| fore-and-after | sailing vessel with a fore-and-aft rig |
| fore-and-aft rig | rig in which the principal sails are fore-and-aft |
| fore-and-aft sail | any sail not set on a yard and whose normal position is in a fore-and-aft direction |
fore edge
foredge | the part of a book that faces inward when the book is shelved, the part opposite the spine |
| fore plane | a carpenter's plane intermediate between a jack plane and a jointer plane |
| fore-topmast | the topmast next above the foremast |
| fore-topsail | the topsail on a foremast |
gaff topsail
fore-and-aft topsail | a triangular fore-and-aft sail with its foot along the gaff and its luff on the topmast |
| genre painting | a genre depicting everyday life |
knife edge
cutting edge | the sharp cutting side of the blade of a knife |
landscape
landscape painting | a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery |
| leading edge | forward edge of an airfoil |
mural
wall painting | a painting that is applied to a wall surface |
nude
nude painting | a painting of a naked human figure |
| oil painting | a picture painted with oil paints |
| order book | a book in which customers' orders are entered, usually makes multiple copies of the order |
painting
picture | graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface, a small painting by Picasso, he bought the painting as an investment, his pictures hang in the Louvre |
paperback book
paper-back book
paperback
softback book
softback
softover book
softover | a book with paper covers |
| picture book | a book consisting chiefly of pictures |
| pocketbook pocket book pocket edition | pocket-sized paperback book |
| razor edge | an edge that is as sharp as the cutting side of a razor |
safety match
book matches | a paper match that strikes only on a specially prepared surface |
| sand painting | a painting done by Amerindians (especially Navaho), made of fine colored sands on a neutral background |
| talking book | sound recording of someone reading a book, frequently used by blind people |
| trailing edge | the rear edge of an airfoil |
| knife-edge | a narrow boundary, he lived on a knife-edge between genius and insanity |