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VOL'UME, n. L. volumen, a roll volvo, to roll. to make u long, in this word, is palpably wrong.
1. Primarily a roll, as the ancients wrote on long strips of bark, parchment or other material, which they formed into rolls or folds. Of such volumes, Ptolemy's library in Alexandria contained 3 or 700,000.
2. A roll or turn as much as is included in a roll or coil as the volume of a serpent.
3. Dimensions compass space occupied as the volume of an elephant's body a volume of gas.
4. A swelling or spherical body.
The undulating billows rolling their silver volumes.
5. A book a collection of sheets of paper, usually printed or written paper, folded and bound, or covered. A book consisting of sheets once folded, is called a folio, or a folio volume of sheets twice folded, a quarto and thus according to the number of leaves in a sheet, it is called an octavo, or a duodecimo. The Scriptures or sacred writings, bound in a single volume, are called the Bible. The number of volumes in the Royal Library, in rue de Richlieu, at Paris, is variously estimated. It is probable it may amount to 400,000.
An odd volume of a set of books, bears not the value of its proportion to the set.
6. In music, the compass of a voice from grave to acute the tone or power of voice.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Volume'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/v/volume.html.
Entry for 'Volume'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/v/volume.html.
