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Definition of Seriph
1. Noun. A short line at the end of the main strokes of a character.
Definition of Seriph
1. n. See Ceriph.
Definition of Seriph
1. Noun. (archaic form of serif) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Seriph
1. a short decorative foot [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seriph
Literary usage of Seriph
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakespeare's Ovid: Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses by Ovid, Arthur Golding, William Henry Denham Rouse (1904)
"At sight whereof anon The Goddesse Pallas all this while did keepe continually
Hir brother Persey companie, till now that she did stie From seriph in a ..."
2. Notes on English Etymology: Chiefly Reprinted from the Transactions of the by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"The form of the root is SEUS. The Lith. form, which I had not mentioned, is
important. [88; 10.] See Brug- mann, ed. 1897, i. § 213 (4). Serif, seriph ..."
3. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"... has also been said to be short for sai-e-nappe, for which I can find no evidence.
Serif, seriph ..."
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