dagger
obelisk
New words in the text were affixed with an asterisk, while an obelus was used to mark many others as corrupt.
The division sign, also called the obelus, can be traced back to 1659 in a book by Johann Rahn.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Signs, signals and symbols
acid test
backward slash
backwards slash
beacon
breadcrumb
hieroglyphic
hieroglyphically
iconographic
iconographically
iconography
obelisk
octothorpe
paraph
penalty flag
pilcrow
pointer
prompt
the all-clear
token
torch