Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tome"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tome \Tome\, n. [F. tome (cf. It., Sp., & Pg. tomo), L. tomus,
fr. Gr. ? a piece cut off, a part of a book, a volume, akin
to ? to cup, and perhaps to L. tondere to shear, E. tonsure.
Cf. {Anatomy}, {Atom}, {Entomology}, {Epitome}. ]
As many writings as are bound in a volume, forming part of a
larger work; a book; -- usually applied to a ponderous
volume.
Tomes of fable and of dream. --Cowper.
A more childish expedient than that to which he now
resorted is not to be found in all the tomes of the
casuists. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tome
n : a (usually) large and scholarly book
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