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- A single page containing the alphabet, covered with a sheet of transparent horn, formerly used for teaching children to read.<ref name="ADPM-def">The http://books.google.com/books?id=Z_QUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA269&dq=hornbook++subject:%22Book+industries+and+trade%22&as_brr=3&ei=IFwqR7jTPI307QKDkYW-BQ American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking by W.W. Pasko (1894)</ref>
- 1696, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
- : Moth: Yes, yes. He teaches boys the .
- a. 1828, Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson, A Dictionary of the English Language, page 351,
- : HORNBOOK, (horn'-book) n. The first book of children, covered with horn to keep it unsoiled.
- 1913, Katharine Lee Bates, Lilla Weed, Shakespeare: Selective Bibliography and Biographical Notes, page 41
- : By way of the Shakespeare would have learned to read, ".
- 1999, Nigel Wheale, Writing and Society: Literacy, Print, and Politics in Britain, 1590-1660, page 43
- : Infants learned their letters from a , a square of wood shaped like a table-tennis bat on which were pasted the alphabet, syllables and the Lord's Prayer ".
- 2002, Nila Banton Smith, American Reading Instruction, page 14
- : The is the first piece of instructional material specifically mentioned in American records.
- A legal textbook that gives a basic overview of a particular area of law.
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