Hornbook: alternatives and connections

gain knowledge or skills; "She learned dancing from her sister"; "I learned Sanskrit"; "Children acquire language at an amazing rate"

A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a…

Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied…

Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.

The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag.

A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.

one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "print…

one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "print…

Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knif…

Conversion into, or formation of, horn; a becoming like horn.

Having the shape of a horn; horn-shaped.

A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.

A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.

Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.

A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under Paper.

Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.

A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and r…

A border made on sheet-metal ware by doubling over the edge of the sheet, to stiffen it and remove the sharp edge.