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2. Noun. (pluralonly) (accounting) Accounting records. ¹

3. Verb. (third-person singular of book) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Books

1. book [v] - See also: book

Lexicographical Neighbors of Books

Literary usage of Books

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Book Auction Records by Frank Karslake (1907)
"The Rochdale Catalogue of Secondhand books, many Rare and Curious, also a Catalogue consisting entirely of books from the Library of the late John Bright, ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1904)
"Contains the freshest news concerning books and authors ; lists of new publications ... THE AMERICAN CATALOGUE of books In print and for sale July i,, ..."

3. Handbook of Reference Sources and Services for Small and Medium-Sized Libraries by Margaret I. Nicholas (1996)
"RBB provides reviews of some 450 new reference books annually which are likely to be of general interest to libraries. The reviews are critical, ..."

4. The Excursions of a Book-lover: Being Papers on Literary Themes by Frederic Rowland Marvin (1910)
"NO, Mr. Ruskin, the man who would make of books lasting and intimate friends ... The man who truly loves good books will draw them to himself by a subtile, ..."

5. The Excursions of a Book-lover: Being Papers on Literary Themes by Frederic Rowland Marvin (1910)
"NO, Mr. Ruskin, the man who would make of books lasting and intimate friends ... The man who truly loves good books will draw them to himself by a subtile, ..."

6. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1905)
"INTRODUCTION / These Year books are Law Reports ; but the term ' Law ... There were indeed men whose business it was to copy books; they would make you a ..."

7. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1864)
"The grossness and multitude of Aristotle and Varro's books were both a prejudice to the authors, and an hinderance to learning, and an occasion of the ..."

8. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1896)
"But it must not be supposed that Chap-books are nothing but " dying speeches and confessions," or that dying speeches and confessions form a large class of ..."

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