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

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

In anc. Mss., the mark (-) or (÷) inserted, particularly in those of the septuagint, to indicate that the passage so marked is not found in the Hebrew; the line thus (-) in modern writing is employed to mark the place of a break in the sense where it is suspended, or when some awkward grammatical transition is made, but is often used instead of a (;) or (:).

n. [Greek] A mark thus [— or —], used in ancient manuscripts and in early printed books to mark an interpolation or a passage of doubtful authority;—in modem printing, noting a break or suspension of the sense, or a transition from one member of the sentence to another.