] is used to connect a number of words with one common term; and sometimes in poetry, to connect three lines which rhyme together:
| Moore’s Works, |  |
| Saurin’s Sermons, | $1.75 each. |
| Lewis’s Plays, |
| Injustice, swift, erect, andunconfined, | |
| Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o’er mankind, | |
| While prayers, to heal her wrongs,move slow behind. |
Marks of Ellipsis or Omission are the dash; as, “Col. Sm—h”: or asterisks; as, “Col. Sm**h”: or, neatest of all, points; as, “Col. Sm . . h.”
Leaders are dots which lead the eye from something on the left of the page, to some connected matter on the right:
- Globe Insurance Co. . . . . . London, Eng.
- Mutual Life In. Co. . . . . . Hartford, Conn.
Accents are the Grave [`], the Acute [´], and the Circumflex [^]: è is read by the copy-holder grave e; é, acute e; ê, circumflex e.
Marks of Quantity are the Long, as over o in “shōw”; the Short, or Breve, as over o in “nŏt”; and the Diæresis, which denotes that the latter of {p122} two vowels is not in the same syllable as the former; as, “zoölogy,” “Antinoüs.”
The Cedilla is a curve line under the letter c, to denote that it has the sound of s; as in “garçon,” “façade.” It appears in words from the French language. Worcester uses it also to denote the soft sounds of g, s, and x; as in “mişle,” “e