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1. all along, adv. and adj. View full entry 1829
...Bookbinding. Usu. with hyphen. With the thread passed continuously from kettle stitch to kettle stitch, using every sewing support along the fold of each gathering. Also with reference to a machine-sewn...
2. all along, adv. and adj. View full entry 1888
...Bookbinding. Usu. with hyphen. Of the sewing of books: done all-along (sense A. 2)....
3. antique, adj. and n. View full entry 1885
...Bookbinding. See antique1....
4. antique, v. View full entry 1753
...To bind (books) after an antique manner....
5. arming, n.2 View full entry 1598
...The action of furnishing with heraldic devices; †concr. heraldic arms (obs.). attrib., as in arming-press...
6. art board in art, n.1 View full entry 1898
...a type of high-quality coated or laminated cardboard; a piece of this, esp. used as a cover in bookbinding (cf. board4)....
7. assiette, n. View full entry 1869
...In Bookbinding, A composition laid on the cut edges of books previous to gilding them....
8. azure, n. and adj. View full entry 1894
...Bookbinding. Composed of horizontal parallel lines, as a tooled or stamped design; also applied to the tool used for making such a design (cf. sense A. 3)....
9. ˈazured, adj. View full entry 1879
...spec. in Bookbinding = azure4. Also in French form azuré....
10. back, v. View full entry 1741
...Bookbinding. To force the backs of the sections of (an unbound book) outwards on each side so as to form grooves or ledges into which the edges of the binding boards...
11. backing, n. View full entry
...Bookbinding. Preparing the back of a book with glue, etc. before putting on the cover....
12. band, n.1 View full entry 1699
...Bookbinding. Name of the cords or straps crossing the back of a book, by attachment to which the quires or sheets are ‘bound’ together....
13. beback in be-, prefix View full entry 1858
...to furnish (a book) with a back....
14. beat, v.1 View full entry 1753
...techn., expressing various operations in the arts; as in Printing, to ink the forms with beaters; in Bookbinding, Paper-making, Flax-dressing, etc....
15. bevelling-machine in ˈbevelling | beveling, n. View full entry
...a book-binder's machine for bevelling the edges of a book-cover....
16. biblioˈpegia, n. View full entry 1835
...= bibliopegy...
17. biblioˈpegically, adv. View full entry 1896
...As regards bookbinding....
18. bibliopegy, n. View full entry 1876
...Bookbinding as a fine art....
19. bibliopegic in bibliopegy, n. View full entry 1882
...of or pertaining to bookbinding....
20. bibliopegist in bibliopegy, n. View full entry 1824
...a bookbinder....
