[see -LING.] A little book.

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1803.  Southey, Life (1850), II. 230. The twelfth of the booklings [i.e., cantos] into which it [Madoc] is now divided.

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1822.  Blackw. Mag., XII. 656. The dainty booklings of our poetesses.

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1881.  Athenæum, 26 March, 425/3. The curious booklings which Elyot saw through the press during his lifetime.

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