A scholar, a student.
1583. Exec. for Treason (1675), 42. Scholars, or Book-men.
1588. Shaks., L. L. L., IV. ii. 35. You two are book-men: Can you tell by your wit [etc.].
1621. Bp. Mountagu, Diatribæ, 403. You, so great a booke-man, know well enough [etc.].
1817. Mar. Edgeworth, Ormond, v. (1832), 51. Did you ever hear of the Stoics that the book-men talk of?
1859. Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt., II. lxxxiii. 45. A certain Hermann, whom the book-men call Arminius.
1871. Morley, Crit. Misc. (1886), I. 75. He figured as the philosopher and bookman of the party.