单词 | receipt book |
释义 | > as lemmasreceipt book receipt book n. (a) a book containing medical or cooking receipts (also figurative) (cf. recipe book n. at recipe n. Compounds); (b) a book containing receipts for payments made. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > [noun] > pharmacopoeia dispensatory1566 pharmacopoeia1618 receipt book1647 dispensary1721 formulary1823 code1846 B.P.1898 U.S.P.1909 society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > receipt > book of receipt book1797 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cookery-book > [noun] cookery book1639 recipe book1803 cookbook1809 receipt book1873 1647 C.Culpeper Let. 15 Sept. in Camden Misc. (1996) XXXIII. 302 My [Wife]..is muche perplexed for the losse of her receipte bookes. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 50 One Remedy shall serve..severall Diseases, and distempers;..Their Receipt-Book is as universally indifferent, as a Church-Booke. 1682 Minutes Hudson's Bay Co. (1946) II. 54 His wife has given a receipt in full as appeares in Mr. Wm. Walkers receipt book. 1797 Encycl. Brit. III. 391/2 Receipt book. In this book a merchant takes receipts of the payments he makes. 1808 H. More Cœlebs in Search of Wife II. xlvii. 446 I now found her grand receipt-book was the Bible. 1873 R. Broughton Nancy I. 6 Keep stirring always!..say I, closing the receipt-book. 1956 N. Algren Walk on Wild Side ii. 121 Don't you think I know what they're up to? Got a pencil and a receipt book so they're going to make out five or six phony orders with addresses of empty lots 'n then go drink derail in Lafayette Square. 1974 Sumter (S. Carolina) Daily Item 20 Apr. 3 a/5 We received a copy of ‘First Lady's Receipt Book’ which has been compiled by the Richland County Cancer Society. The book contains recipes submitted by wives of legislators from throughout the state. 1995 Caribbean Weekly Jan.–Feb. 10/3 Mr. Edwards reported, the Treasury failed to produce ‘some 246 counterfoil receipt books for audit inspection.’ < as lemmas |
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