Em

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The portion of a line formerly occupied by the letter m, then a square type, used as a unit by which to measure the amount of printed matter on a page; the square of the body of a type.

Related Words

em
em, i. q. eum, v. is init. ...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
em
em interj., of wonder or emphasis, there!: em tibi, there's for you, T. ...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary
‘Em
·- An obsolete or colloquial contraction of the old form hem, them. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Em-
·- A prefix. ·see En-. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Symonds, Miss E.M. ("George Paston")
Novelist, etc. A Modern Amazon (1894), A Bread and Butter Miss (1894), The Career of Candida (1896),...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
bring 'em near
The day-and-night telescope. ...

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