- A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room
for notes. - A volume, as of some classical author, on which a
teacher lectures or comments; hence, any manual of instruction; a
schoolbook.
- Belonging to, or characteristic of, a system of
elementary education which combined manual training with other
instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi
(1746-1827), a Swiss teacher. - An advocate or follower of the system of Pestalozzi.