The commercial dictionary of trade products : manufacturing and technical terms, moneys, weights, and measures of all countries / by P.L. Simmonds.

  • Peter Simmonds
Date:
1892
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Credit: The commercial dictionary of trade products : manufacturing and technical terms, moneys, weights, and measures of all countries / by P.L. Simmonds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    L 4G j Book-post, the facility offered for forward- ing printed matteraud unstamped nubllea- tiona by Hie mails In the United Kingdom and to the Colonics at certain low rates Books, In a general sense, printed volumes, wliicli furnish extonslvoomploymentbotli in tliclr manufacture, and sale. Besides the home circulation, a great many are exported, and many foreign books arc also brought into the kingdonifor sale and to order. Bookseller, n dealer in books, who fre- quently combines the business of publisher and stationer. There are many class- booksellers who confine their business to one particular brand] of literature as law, medicine, divinity, Ac. Book-stall, an exposed stand for books at a shop-window or railway station, &,c. Book-trade, the business of printing and publishing books, a most important branch of London trade, which employs a largo capital and a numerous class of venders, whoiesalo and retail, termed booksellers, who dispose of now and second-hand books. Book-work, a printer's term for the com- position or setting of type for the pages of books. Boole, the local name for a spotted shell in the Pacific islands. Boolgarka, a name for varieties of black and blue-eared spring wheat grown around the sea of Azof. Booloo, a name for gum, pitch, or any other adhesive substance in the Pacific islands; also for the husk of the coco-nut. Boom, a projecting spar in a ship run out amidships or fore and aft, as a jib-boom on the bowsprit, studding-sail boom to the yards, <fcc.; the hard straw of Has. Boomerang, a peculiar shaped nativo Aus- tralian missile which recoils wlien throw11; a steam screw-propeller litted on the same principle. Boon, a name for tbe shove or central wood- like part of the flax stem. * Boope, the Spanish name for a species of whale. Booraga, a pure gum obtained in the East from Bombax mcdabaricum. Booree, a name in Sindli for the pollen of a species of Typha, which, like that of Lycopodium, is inflammable. Boorans, a name in India for the wood of the Rhododendron arboreum. Bookjookje, Borjooke, n namo given to glass beads of various colours, which are used as small money in Abyssinia. Boorka, a Circassian felted cloth. Boornous, a woollen cloak with capuchin and without sleeves, worn by the Arabs. Boosa, an Indian name for chaff or chopped straw for cattle provender. Boossat, the Arabic name for a rug or carpet. Bootea, the Arabic name for a bungalow or rest house. _ ... Boot, the French name for a Baltic sloop; a wine measure of Antwerp consisting of 1S2 stoops or about 85 gallons; the space under the box-seat of a coach, where small parcels are put. See Boots. Boot-back, the hinder leather ol lung hoots, which isofi on imported from the Continent ready shaped for making up. Boot-hlocker, a division of the boot and shoe trade. BooT-BLOCKiso-MACurxE, a contrivance for stretching leather for men's boots. Boot-closer, one who sews together the upper leather of boots. Boot-counter Maker, a workman who fits the still'padding and leather at the. lower part, of the boot-back, BooT-ci:iMrF.ii, an operative who crinkles patent leather for boots and shoes on a kind or last. Bootee, a white spotted Dacca muslin. Boot-gram, a common Indian name for the seeds of Ciccr arietinum. Booto, a large canvas tent, or pavilion. Boot uooks, holdfasts for drawiug long boots on the feet. Boot-jack, a contrivance for taking off long boots by a pressure at the heel. Boot-lace, a cord or tie of silk, leather or other material for fastening hunts. Boot-lace-maker, a preparer of cords and laces for hoots. Boot-last. See Boot-tree. Boot-peg-maker, a workman who prepares wooden or metal pegs for the shoe trade. Boot-rack, a stand to hang boots and shoes on. Boots, leather coverings or protections for the feet; a common name for the under porter, messenger, or shoe-black at an inn. Boot-top-maker, one who makes tops for hunting-hoots and livery servants' boots. Boot-topping, the process of scraping a vessel's bottom to clear it from accumu- lated weed, &c, and daubing it with tallow, or some other mixture. Boot-tree, an instrument for stretching the leg of a boot. Boot-trer-maker, a manufacturer of stretcher-blocks or shapes for boots. Booza, the Arabic name for beer. Bopao, a small canoe in the Pacific islands, hollowed from the trunk of a tree. Boqut.t, a kind of shovel used in France. BOQtiiN, a coarse sort of Spanish baize. Bora, the Hindoo name for the Dolkhos Cujan, a common pulse, also called Bur- butce; a sack used in India lor holding rice.* Bohacic acid, nscalysalinesubstunce, found native in the lagoons of Tuscany and hi some minerals; which is chiefly used to combine with soda for the purpose of forming borax. It consists of the element Boron united with oxygen. Borax, the biborate of soda. This salt is largely imported from India under the name of tincal, and alter purification forms the refined borax of commerce. It is chlelly used as a llux for metals, and a constituent of the glazes for porcelain. Borui or Bdrbl. a copper com in Egypt; also a monev of account in Tunis; the eighth part of a medino, 40 inediui mak- ing one piastre. Boedadillo, a Spanish name for double- flowered taftety.