Desk , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Desked (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Desking.] To shut
up, as in a desk; to treasure.
Desk (?), n. [OE.
deske, the same word as dish, disk. See Dish, and cf. Disk.]
1. A table,
frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has
a drawer or
repository underneath. 2.
A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is
preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for "the clerical profession."
Quotes From Classical Literature on 'desk'You can hear pronunciation of the quotes if you click on  . The sound files tend to be pretty big.
 The first vote was on the Eleventh and last Article of the
Impeachment. Senators voted in alphabetical order, and each arose
and stood at his desk as his name was called by the Chief Clerk.
To each the Chief Justice propounded the solemn
interrogatory--" Mr. Senator--, how say you-- is the
respondent, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States,
guilty or not guilty of a high misdemeanor as charged in this
Article?"
We mounted the steps of the Museum. In the hallway Mostyn, the
curator, awaited us. Having greeted Bristol and myself he led the
way to his private office, and from a pigeon- hole in his desk took
out a letter typewritten upon a sheet of quarto paper.
Bristol spread it out upon the blotting pad and we bent over it
curiously.
for some days afterwards Veronica displayed a tendency to shutting
herself up in the schoolroom with a copybook, and that lead pencils
had a way of disappearing from my desk . One in particular that had
suited me I determined if possible to recover. A subtle instinct
guided me to Veronica' s sanctum. I found her thoughtfully sucking
it. She explained to me that she was writing a little play.
" You get things from your father, don' t you?" she enquired of me.
Nature, eternally indifferent, neither hastened nor hurried the
twenty- fourth day of December. I went to the Hotel Bullion, and
took my place in Salle No. 4, immediately below the high desk at
which the auctioneer Boulouze and the expert Polizzi were to sit.
I saw the hall gradually fill with familiar faces. I shook hands
with several old booksellers of the quays; but that prudence which
any large interest inspires in even the most self- assured caused me
to keep silence in regard to the reason of my unaccustomed presence
up to the eyes, and his fingers with ink up to the knuckles. He
looked dubiously at Waverley as he approached the little green
rail which fenced his desk and stool from the approach of the
vulgar. Nothing could give the Bailie more annoyance than the
idea of his acquaintance being claimed by any of the unfortunate
gentlemen who were now so much more likely to need assistance
than to afford profit. But this was the rich young Englishman--
who knew what might be his situation?-- he was the Baron' s friend
It was the second day after his visit to La Mision Perdida. He was
sitting by his desk , at sunset, in the faint afterglow of the
western sky, which flooded the floor through the open door. He was
writing, but presently lifted his head, with an impatient air, and
called out, "Harrison!"
The shadow of Dr. West' s foreman appeared at the door.
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