Definition of "hymn-book" []

• Alternative spelling of hymnbook. (noun)

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• "We busted it up, and chased the children up the hollow; but we never got anything but some doughnuts and jam, though Ben Rogers got a rag doll, and Jo Harper got a hymn-book and a tract; and then the teacher charged in, and made us drop everything and cut."
• "One is 'like an édition de luxe of a wicked French novel, meant specially for the English market', another as 'dowdy' as a 'badly bound hymn-book'."
• "Back for Mass where I was only just about in time and slid into a pew where a nice girl shared her hymn-book with me."