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hornbook, primer of a kind in use from the 15th to the 18th cent. On one side of a sheet of parchment or paper the matter to be learned was written or printed; over the sheet, for its protection, a transparent sheet of horn was placed; and the two were fastened to a thin board, which usually projected to form a handle, perforated so that the hornbook might be attached to a girdle. The matter printed or written included the alphabet in capitals and small letters and other material, varying in different hornbooks, such as numerals and the Lord's Prayer. Sometimes the base and handle were made of metal, stone, or ivory and had letters carved or cast on them.

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See A. W. Tuer, History of the Hornbook (2 vol., 1896, repr. 1968).

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No references found			The horn-book in England has been the subject of an authoritative study, but as yet no similarly comprehensive study has been attempted in Australia. From the editorial chair by Barnes, John / The La Trobe Journal Horn-Books and Battledores Not recognisably a book in today's sense, the horn-book has been referred to in literature from the fifteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. The ABC of horn-books by O'Conor, Juliet / The La Trobe Journal			Hormuz, Strait of Horn horn angle Horn Antenna horn arrester Horn Band horn buoy Horn clause Horn Dance horn equation horn gap horn lead horn lightning arrester Horn Loudspeaker Horn of Africa horn of plenty horn quicksilver horn radiator horn silver horn socket horn spacing horn spoon Horn, Arvid Bernhard Horn, Cape Horn, Philip de Montmorency, count of Horn-book horn-gap switch horn-loaded speaker Hornad Hornád Hornaday, William Temple Hornbeam Hornbeck, Stanley K. hornbill Hornblende hornblendite Hornblower, Captain Horatio Hornblower, Horatio Hornblower, Jonathan Carter Hornblower, Josiah hornbook Hornbostel, Erich von Hornby Horne Islands Horne Tooke, John Horne, Lena Horne, Marilyn Horne, Richard Henry horned dinosaur horned liverwort horned lizard			horn poppy horn poppy Horn pout Horn pox Horn Quicksilver Horn Quicksilver horn radiator Horn rimmed glasses Horn sentence horn shears horn shears horn shears Horn shell horn shells Horn silver Horn silver Horn slate horn socket horn spacing horn spoon Horn Strobe horn tubule horn tubule horn tubule Horn, Arvid Bernhard Horn, Cape Horn, Cape Horn, East and Central Africa Horn, Philip de Montmorency, count of horn, pulp Horn-book Horn-Fed Bowtie horn-gap switch horn-like horn-like horn-like horn-loaded speaker Horn-mad horn-rimmed Horn-rimmed glasses horn-rims horn-shaped Hornad Hornád Hornaday, William Temple Hornady Mach 2 Hornady Magnum Rimfire Hornbeak Hornbeak, Tennessee hornbeam hornbeam hornbeam Hornbeams Hornbeams Hornbeck, Stanley K. hornbill hornbill Hornbill Golf & Jungle Club Hornbills Hornbills Hornblend

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