Crossword clues for bookcase
bookcase
- Where jackets are lined up
- Atlas's locale
- A piece of furniture with shelves for storing books
- Furniture item <--> law student's tome
- Novel storage unit in Spooner's kitchen?
- Fantastic cook kept in headquarters - place to show titles?
- Prearrange patient for feature of study?
- Piece of furniture having unpleasant smell? Fine when in church
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bookcase \Book"case`\, n. A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A piece of furniture designed for the storage/display of books.
WordNet
n. a piece of furniture with shelves for storing books
Wikipedia
A bookcase, or bookshelf, is a piece of furniture, almost always with horizontal shelves, used to store books. Bookcases are used in private homes, public and university libraries, offices and bookstores. A bookcase may be fitted with glass doors. A bookcase consists of a unit including two or more shelves which may not all be used to contain books or other printed materials. Bookcases range from small, low models the height of a table to high models reaching up to ceiling height. Shelves may be fixed or adjustable to different positions in the case. In rooms entirely devoted to the storage of books they may be permanently fixed to the walls and/or floor. Bookcases may have doors that can be closed to protect the books from air pollution, and bookshelves are open-fronted. These doors are almost always glazed, so as to allow the spines of the books to be read. Especially valuable books may be kept in locked cases with wooden or glazed doors. A bookshelf normally stands on some other piece of furniture such as a desk or chest. Larger books are more likely to be kept in horizontal piles and very large books flat on wide shelves.
In Latin and Greek the idea of bookcase is represented by Bibliotheca and Bibliothēkē (Greek: βιβλιοθήκη), derivatives of which mean library in many modern languages.
A bookcase is also known as a bookshelf, a bookstand, a cupboard and a bookrack. In a library, large bookshelves are called "stacks."
Usage examples of "bookcase".
He no longer sat motionless behind his desk: like a dancing bear he hopped about between bookcase and blackboard, seized the sponge and effaced the just outlined itineraries of the Goths.
She hit the power button on her small stereo system in the bookcase, conjuring up a bluesy piano number.
Rafael shrugged his shoulders, barely rippling the gray-black material of his cotte, and put his parchments behind the bookcase beside him.
The perfumes of verbena and cymbidium and Yggdrasil entered the room, blending with the fusty, musty odours of the countless leather-bound volumes overflowing from the ancient bookcases that hid the walls.
Snatching a gold key off a nail in the side of a bookcase containing bottles of pickled frogs, I gained access to a dimly lit storage area full of packaged caskets and cases of formaldehyde, sodium chloride, glycerine, methyl-engenol and eosin dye, plus other paraphernalia relating to the funeral arts.
A shower of large, bound ledgers fell onto Fand as the brown vigil hurled her against the bookcase.
I crossed the room to my bookcase and took down the volume of Gaston Maspero, the same which I had been reading but had returned to its shelf as Gatton had been admitted.
Michael in the living room at the bookcases, staring into the open sword drawer with Katana sitting alertly at his feet.
Also, the more important the topic, the more peripatetic he always became, and now he paced from window to bookcase to galley kitchen, crunching kibble underneath.
Then Kono gestured to Bond with his gun, opened a small doorway beside the bookcase and pointed down a narrow stone passage.
Instead, Lenger went to a bookcase, rummaged among stacks of volumes and found a tin box.
Qwilleran eyed the apartment avidly-particularly the big loungy chair in bold black-and-white plaid, the row of built-in bookcases, and - wonder of wonder - a white bearskin rug.
Peckover relapsed into whispering discontentedly to herself--now and then looking towards the bookcase, where young Thorpe was sitting sleepily, with a volume of engravings on his knee.
Elsewhere lamps, a farseer and music runer, a well-filled bookcase, and austere furniture stood on handsome rugs.
Toby had zoomed in on the bookcase immediately, but he was able to carry on a small-talk conversation with Sooly while reading.