Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TEXT-BOOK
TEXT-BOOK, n.
- In universities and colleges, a classic author written with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for the observations or interpretation dictated by the master or regent. Cyc.
- A book containing the leading principles or most important points of a science or branch of learning, arranged in order for the use of students.
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