Text-book

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Text-book \Text"-book`\, n.
     1. A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room
        for notes.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A volume, as of some classical author, on which a teacher


        lectures or comments; hence, any manual of instruction; a
        schoolbook.
        [1913 Webster] Text hand

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  textbook
       adj : according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook;
             typical; "a casebook schizophrenic"; "a textbook
             example" [syn: {casebook}]
       n : a book prepared for use in schools or colleges; "his
           economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the
           professor wrote the text that he assigned students to
           buy" [syn: {text}, {text edition}, {schoolbook}, {school
           text}] [ant: {trade book}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "textbook":
     abecedarium, abecedary, alphabet book, battledore, casebook,
     exercise book, gradus, grammar, hornbook, manual,
     manual of instruction, primer, reader, schoolbook, speller,
     spelling book, t, text, workbook