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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.

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Entry for 'Book'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​b/book.html.
 
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