book of words—(coll.) printed instructions (not necessarily in a book form):
- I can’t quite see how to put this thing together. Where’s the book of words?
word-book—
1. a list of words with meanings, etc.:
- It would, however, seem almost necessary to emphasize that this Word-Book is not a dictionary of school slang.
2. libretto of a musical composition:
- Besides translating many foreign libretti, Chorley wrote the original word-books of one version of the “Amber Witch.”