Bookwise

Alternative forms

• book-wise

Origin

book + -wise

Full definition of bookwise

Adverb

1. In the manner of a book.
• 1878, Bret Harte, "The Man on the Beach" in Drift From Two Shores:She strode to the middle of the room the paper held and folded book-wise in her hands.
• 1977, Theodore Annemann, Annemann's Card Magic, page 22:Unknown to the audience, the left fingers have tilted the two red top cards open bookwise...