Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See serif.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Type Founding) See ceriph.

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  • noun Archaic form of serif.

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  • noun a short line at the end of the main strokes of a character

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Examples

  • Nibs never would have quilled a seriph to sheepskin.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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  • See also serif.

    But not sheriff. Frogapplause shot him.

    March 9, 2009

  • Did she shoot the deputy, too?

    March 9, 2009

  • I'm sure she'll claim she didn't ;-)

    Been to Womad, pleth?

    March 9, 2009

  • She probably would, too.

    Ha! No.

    March 9, 2009

  • No, she'd swear it was in self-defense.

    March 9, 2009

  • One day the bottom will drop out.

    March 9, 2009

  • But who shot the seraph?

    March 10, 2009

  • *sings to self: "… but I did not kill the cherubim …"*

    March 12, 2009

  • *guffaw*

    March 12, 2009