÷
Ob"e*lus (?), n.; pl. Obeli (#). [L., fr. Gr. , 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.
© Webster 1913.
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