Emily Dickinson Lexicon

book (-s), n. [OE bóc.] (webplay: beech-tree, learning, literary, reading, registering, remembrance, volume).

1. Tome; written work; published literary composition; [fig.] piece of knowledge; compilation of wisdom; [biographical] copy of Emerson's poems that Dickinson received from Benjamin Newton.
2. Author; writer from the past.
3. Biography; life story; personal history; [fig.] immortality; eternal life.
4. Imprint; mail-order catalog; periodical that advertises products for sale, such as Tiffany's Blue Book or the Montgomery Ward catalog of Chicago.
5. Scripture; scroll; sacred record; (see Luke 4:20).
6. Holy Bible; Old and New Testament; scriptural anthology that begins with Genesis and ends with Revelations; [fig.] summer; warm season; time of year; [metaphor] poem; creation; creative work.
7. Record; registry; account; chronicle; hotel sign-in; volume for guests; [fig.] tree; home; resting place.
8. Volume; novel; printed text; set of printed sheets of paper bound together.
9. Phrase. “the Wise Book”: the Bible, the holy scriptures; the Old and the New Testaments.
10. Phrase. “an Old fashioned Book”: the book of Revelation in the New Testament of the Bible (see Revelation 7:16); the book of Isaiah in the Old Testament of the Bible (see Isaiah 49:10).