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Webster 1913 Edition

Obelus

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Ob′e-lus

(ŏb′ĕ-lŭs)

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Obeli

(ŏb′ĕ-lī)

.

[L., fr. Gr.

ὀβελός

, prop., a spit.]

(Print.)

A mark [thus —, or ÷]; – so called as resembling a needle. In old MSS. or editions of the classics, it marks suspected passages or readings.