Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An early primer consisting of a single page protected by a transparent sheet of horn, formerly used in teaching children to read.
- n. A text that instructs in the basic skills or rudiments of a subject.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A leaf or page, usually one containing the alphabet, the nine digits, and the Lord's Prayer, covered with transparent horn and fixed in a frame with a handle: formerly used in teaching children to read.
- n. Hence A book containing the first principles of any science or branch of knowledge; a primer.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer.
- n. A book containing the rudiments of any science or branch of knowledge; a manual; a handbook.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a primer that provides instruction in the rudiments or basic skills of a branch of knowledge
Examples
“Especially if you plan to work on anything interesting and not totally routinized it is far more important to learn how to read the law and learn to navigate within it than it is to learn to regurgitate a hornbook.”
“That said, there are two legitimate reasons why you might want to consult an outline or a hornbook.”
“It is possible to learn the rules of torts from a hornbook.”
“She gave me her old childhood hornbook to practice my letters and verse.”
“It is hornbook law that an entity is not liable for misconduct of one of its employees or that occurs beyond the scope of that individual's employment.”
The Huffington Post: The Get Out of Jail and Stay on Contract Free Card
“Indeed, this is pretty much hornbook law in this case.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Oral Argument in Dartmouth College Alumni Case:
“It is again hornbook law that if a party is a third-party beneficiary then that party has standing to sue to enforce its rights.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Oral Argument in Dartmouth College Alumni Case:
“I should add that the Socratic method plus the case method leads to a perverse form of instruction in which neither the teacher nor the textbook explain the actual subject matter of the course, which students are expected to learn from third-party outline or hornbook.yankeeQuote”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Teaching to Different Learning Styles in Law School
“I took con law from John Yoo, he taught straight out of Erwin Chemerinksy's hornbook.”
“They will buy every book that they're advised to, including "Plain English For Lawyers" and every, and I mean every, hornbook in the bookstore.”
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Book Keeping
A collection of book words.
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Logolepsy
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texture
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Compounds That Look Freakish
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
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manwithoutascarfie's Words
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