Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Book \Book\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Booked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Booking}.]
   1. To enter, write, or register in a book or list.

            Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds.
                                                  --Shak.

   2. To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose
      of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be
      booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.

   3. To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is
      booked for the valedictory. [Colloq.]

            Here I am booked for three days more in Paris.
                                                  --Charles
                                                  Reade.

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.

Source : WordNet®

book
     n 1: a written work or composition that has been published
          (printed on pages bound together); "I am reading a good
          book on economics"
     2: physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound
        together; "he used a large book as a doorstop" [syn: {volume}]
     3: a record in which commercial accounts are recorded; "they
        got a subpoena to examine our books" [syn: {ledger}, {leger},
         {account book}, {book of account}]
     4: a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on
        one edge; "he bought a book of stamps"
     5: a compilation of the known facts regarding something or
        someone; "Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the
        record'"; "his name is in all the recordbooks" [syn: {record},
         {record book}]
     6: a major division of a long written composition; "the book of
        Isaiah"
     7: a written version of a play or other dramatic composition;
        used in preparing for a performance [syn: {script}, {playscript}]
     8: a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis
        of which decisions are made; "they run things by the book
        around here" [syn: {rule book}]
     9: the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet
        Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina [syn: {Koran},
         {Quran}, {al-Qur'an}]
     10: the sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to
         carry the Word to the heathen" [syn: {Bible}, {Christian
         Bible}, {Good Book}, {Holy Scripture}, {Holy Writ}, {Scripture},
          {Word of God}, {Word}]

book
     v 1: record a charge in a police register; "The policeman booked
          her when she tried to solicit a man"
     2: arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in
        advance; "reserve me a seat on a flight"; "The agent
        booked tickets to the show for the whole family"; "please
        hold a table at Maxim's" [syn: {reserve}, {hold}]
     3: engage for a performance; "Her agent had booked her for
        several concerts in Tokyo"
     4: register in a hotel booker