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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
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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