† book-waysadv.
Obsolete.
= bookwise adv.
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book-ways1696
bookwise1798
booklike1820
1696 London Gaz. No. 3228/2 Act allowing Securities, etc., to be written Book-ways.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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adv.1696- to bring to the market
- to bring to the neck-verse
- to bring to the neckverse
- to bring to the party
- to bring to the pot
- to bring to the proof
- to bring to the scratch
- to bring to the stretch
- to bring to the table
- to bring to trial
- to bring to wrack
- to bring to wrack and ruin
- to bring to, keep on the stage
- to bring to, on, or upon bier
- to bring to, on, or upon one's bier
- to bring under
- to bring under coram
- to bring unto, to fall into, to go, put, or work to wrake
- to bring up
- to bring up all standing
- to bring up an animal on the finger
- to bring up arrears
- to bring up lost ground
- to bring up on the finger
- to bring up the rear