Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Book \Book\ (b[oo^]k), n. [OE. book, bok, AS. b[=o]c; akin to
   Goth. b[=o]ka a letter, in pl. book, writing, Icel. b[=o]k,
   Sw. bok, Dan. bog, OS. b[=o]k, D. boek, OHG. puoh, G. buch;
   and fr. AS. b[=o]c, b[=e]ce, beech; because the ancient
   Saxons and Germans in general wrote runes on pieces of
   beechen board. Cf. {Beech}.]
   1. A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material,
      blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many
      folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or
      writing.

   Note: When blank, it is called a blank book. When printed,
         the term often distinguishes a bound volume, or a
         volume of some size, from a pamphlet.

   Note: It has been held that, under the copyright law, a book
         is not necessarily a volume made of many sheets bound
         together; it may be printed on a single sheet, as music
         or a diagram of patterns. --Abbott.

   2. A composition, written or printed; a treatise.

            A good book is the precious life blood of a master
            spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a
            life beyond life.                     --Milton.

   3. A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as,
      the tenth book of ``Paradise Lost.''

   4. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are
      kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and
      expenditures, etc.

   5. Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in
      certain other games, two or more corresponding cards,
      forming a set.

   Note: Book is used adjectively or as a part of many
         compounds; as, book buyer, bookrack, book club, book
         lore, book sale, book trade, memorandum book, cashbook.

   {Book account}, an account or register of debt or credit in a
      book.

   {Book debt}, a debt for items charged to the debtor by the
      creditor in his book of accounts.

   {Book learning}, learning acquired from books, as
      distinguished from practical knowledge. ``Neither does it
      so much require book learning and scholarship, as good
      natural sense, to distinguish true and false.'' --Burnet.

   {Book louse} (Zo["o]l.), one of several species of minute,
      wingless insects injurious to books and papers. They
      belong to the {Pseudoneuroptera}.

   {Book moth} (Zo["o]l.), the name of several species of moths,
      the larv[ae] of which eat books.

   {Book oath}, an oath made on {The Book}, or Bible.

   {The Book of Books}, the Bible.

   {Book post}, a system under which books, bulky manuscripts,
      etc., may be transmitted by mail.

   {Book scorpion} (Zo["o]l.), one of the false scorpions
      ({Chelifer cancroides}) found among books and papers. It
      can run sidewise and backward, and feeds on small insects.
      

   {Book stall}, a stand or stall, often in the open air, for
      retailing books.

   {Canonical books}. See {Canonical}.

   {In one's books}, in one's favor. ``I was so much in his
      books, that at his decease he left me his lamp.''
      --Addison.

   {To bring to book}.
      (a) To compel to give an account.
      (b) To compare with an admitted authority. ``To bring it
          manifestly to book is impossible.'' --M. Arnold.

   {To curse by bell, book, and candle}. See under {Bell}.

   {To make a book} (Horse Racing), to lay bets (recorded in a
      pocket book) against the success of every horse, so that
      the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and
      loses only on the winning horse or horses.

   {To speak by the book}, to speak with minute exactness.

   {Without book}.
      (a) By memory.
      (b) Without authority.

Candle \Can"dle\, n. [OE. candel, candel, AS, candel, fr. L.
   candela a (white) light made of wax or tallow, fr. cand["e]re
   to be white. See {Candid}, and cf. {Chandler}, {Cannel},
   {Kindle}.]
   1. A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick
      composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and
      used to furnish light.

            How far that little candle throws his beams! So
            shines a good deed in a naughty world. --Shak.

   Note: Candles are usually made by repeatedly dipping the
         wicks in the melted tallow, etc. (``dipped candles''),
         or by casting or running in a mold.

   2. That which gives light; a luminary.

            By these blessed candles of the night. --Shak.

   {Candle nut}, the fruit of a euphorbiaceous shrub ({Aleurites
      triloba}), a native of some of the Pacific islands; --
      socalled because, when dry, it will burn with a bright
      flame, and is used by the natives as a candle. The oil has
      many uses.

   {Candle power} (Photom.), illuminating power, as of a lamp,
      or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard
      candle.

   {Electric candle}, A modification of the electric arc lamp,
      in which the carbon rods, instead of being placed end to
      end, are arranged side by side, and at a distance suitable
      for the formation of the arc at the tip; -- called also,
      from the name of the inventor, {Jablockoff candle}.

   {Excommunication by inch of candle}, a form of
      excommunication in which the offender is allowed time to
      repent only while a candle burns.

   {Not worth the candle}, not worth the cost or trouble.

   {Rush candle}, a candle made of the pith of certain rushes,
      peeled except on one side, and dipped in grease.

   {Sale by inch of candle}, an auction in which persons are
      allowed to bid only till a small piece of candle burns
      out.

   {Standard candle} (Photom.), a special form of candle
      employed as a standard in photometric measurements;
      usually, a candle of spermaceti so constructed as to burn
      at the rate of 120 grains, or 7.8 grams, per hour.

   {To curse by bell, book and candle}. See under {Bell}.

Curse \Curse\ (k?rs), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cursed} (k?rst) or
   {Curst}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cursing}.] [AS. cursian, corsian,
   perh. of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. korse to make the sign of
   the cross, Sw. korsa, fr. Dan. & Sw. kors cross, Icel kross,
   all these Scand. words coming fr. OF. crois, croiz, fr. L.
   crux cross. Cf. {Cross}.]
   1. To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury
      upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

            Thou shalt not . . . curse the ruler of thy people.
                                                  --Ex. xxii.
                                                  28.

            Ere sunset I'll make thee curse the deed. --Shak.

   2. To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm
      or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a
      cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to
      harass or torment.

            On impious realms and barbarous kings impose Thy
            plagues, and curse 'em with such sons as those.
                                                  --Pope.

   {To curse by bell, book, and candle}. See under {Bell}.