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1. all along, adv. and adj. View full entry c1450
...All the time, from the beginning, throughout; continuously, without interruption. Cf. right alongright5....
2. antique, adj. and n. View full entry 1530
...Belonging to former times, ancient, olden. (Now generally rhetorical = of the ‘good old times.’)...
3. antique, v. View full entry 1753
...To bind (books) after an antique manner....
4. arming, n.2 View full entry c1386
...The action or process of furnishing (oneself or others) with arms or armour; †concr. arms, armour (obs.)....
5. art, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Skill in doing something, esp. as the result of knowledge or practice....
6. assiette, n. View full entry 1869
...In Bookbinding, A composition laid on the cut edges of books previous to gilding them....
7. azure, n. and adj. View full entry a1330
...The precious stone lapis lazuli....
8. ˈazured, adj. View full entry 1490
...arch. orObs. Coloured azure; = azure (in various senses):...
9. back, v. View full entry 1362
...To cover the back, clothe. Obs....
10. backing, n. View full entry 1598
...The action of supporting at the back....
11. band, n.1 View full entry ?c1200
...Anything with which one's body or limbs are bound, in restraint of personal liberty; a shackle, chain, fetter, manacle. arch....
12. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
13. beat, v.1 View full entry c885
...trans. To strike with repeated blows. to beat the breast: i.e. in sign of sorrow....
14. ˈbevelling | beveling, n. View full entry 1769
...A cutting to an oblique angle; the oblique angle or slant so given; a bevelled portion or surface: esp. in Shipbuilding....
15. biblioˈpegia, n. View full entry 1835
...= bibliopegy...
16. biblioˈpegically, adv. View full entry 1896
...As regards bookbinding....
17. bibliopegy, n. View full entry 1876
...Bookbinding as a fine art....
18. bind, v. View full entry 971
...trans. To make fast with a tie; to fasten, tie up....
19. binder, n. View full entry OE
...gen. One who binds. (See senses of the verb.)...
20. bindery, n. View full entry 1810
...A bookbinder's workshop or establishment. (First in use in U.S.)...
