Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A book in which to solve arithmetical problems or enter them when worked.
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Examples
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From the glimpse I had of them, I should say that I never saw such sums out of a school ciphering-book.
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917
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Here I sit at the desk again, watching his eye - humbly watching his eye, as he rules a ciphering-book for another victim whose hands have just been flattened by that identical ruler, and who is trying to wipe the sting out with a pocket-handkerchief.
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917
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He makes dreadful mouths as he rules the ciphering-book; and now he throws his eye sideways down our lane, and we all droop over our books and tremble.
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917
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Here I sit at the desk again, watching his eyehumbly watching his eye, as he rules a ciphering-book for another victim whose hands have just been flattened by that identical ruler, and who is trying to wipe the sting out with a pockethandkerchief.
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It hailed facts all day long so very hard, and life in general was opened to her as such a closely ruled ciphering-book, that assuredly she would have run away, but for only one restraint.
Hard Times 1876
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It hailed facts all day long so very hard, and life in general was opened to her as such a closely ruled ciphering-book, that assuredly she would have run away, but for only one restraint.
Hard Times 1868
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It hailed facts all day long so very hard, and life in general was opened to her as such a closely ruled ciphering-book, that assuredly she would have run away, but for only one restraint.
Hard Times Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1868
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From the glimpse I had of them, I should say that I never saw such sums out of a school ciphering-book.
David Copperfield 1850
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Here I sit at the desk again, watching his eye-humbly watching his eye, as he rules a ciphering-book for another victim whose hands have just been flattened by that identical ruler, and who is trying to wipe the sting out with a pocket-handkerchief.
David Copperfield 1850
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He makes dreadful mouths as he rules the ciphering-book; and now he throws his eye sideways down our lane, and we all droop over our books and tremble.
David Copperfield 1850
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