(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:03:34

Hand"book` (?), n. [Hand + book; cf. AS. handbc, or G. handbuch.]

A book of reference, to be carried in the hand; a manual; a guidebook.

 

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