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

	

	textbook
    adj 1: according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook;
           typical; "a casebook schizophrenic"; "a textbook example"
           [syn: casebook, textbook]
    n 1: 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:
         textbook, text, text edition, schoolbook, school
         text] [ant: trade book, trade edition]

	

	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