Definition of Bookful

1. n. As much as will fill a book; a book full.

Definition of Bookful

1. Adjective. (obsolete) Full of book-knowledge; stuffed with ideas gleaned from books. ¹

2. Noun. As much as a book holds. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bookful

1. as much as a book can hold [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bookful

bookcrossed
bookcrosses
bookcrossing
bookdealer
booke
booked
bookend
bookended
bookending
bookends
booker
bookers
bookes
bookfair
bookfell
bookful (current term)
bookfuls
bookhoard
bookholder
bookholders
bookhood
bookhound
bookhounds
bookhouse
bookhouses
bookie
bookier
bookies
bookiest
booking

Literary usage of Bookful

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

1. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"The bookful blockhead, i. read EC 613 Ilion. When the last blaze sent /. to the skies D. i. 256 Ш. Or what i. eyes malignant glances dart A. 82 Now (shame ..."

2. The Autolycus of the Bookstalls by Walter Jerrold (1902)
"THE MOST bookful OF LAUREATES HANDLING of the portly volume in which Robert Southey gave to readers of the early thirties the greater part of the body of ..."

3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1847)
"MA, author of " Proverbial Philosophy," " Géraldine," " The Crock This " bookful of Books," which purports to be edited by Mr. Tupper, we strongly suspect ..."

4. Stokes' Encyclopedia of Familiar Quotations: Containing Five Thousand (1906)
"SHAKESPEARE, Timon of Athens, i, 1 bookful,— The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, POPE, Essay on Criticism, ..."

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