CHARACTERS. 



Of the aspect. 



6 or S. Conjunction^ Trine 

 SS. Semisextile Bq. Biquintile 



5|c Sextile Vc. Quincunx 



Q. Quintile Opposition 



D Quartile Dragon's head 



Td. Tredecile 5 Dragon's tail. 



Of time. 

 A. M. ante meridiem, before the sun comes 



upon the meridian. 

 O. orN. noon. 



P. M. post meridiem, when the sun is past 

 the meridian. 



CHARACTERS, used in the arithmetic of 

 infinites. 



. the character of an infinitesimal or 

 fluxion ; thus a", t/, &c. express the flux- 

 ions or differentials of the variable x and 

 y ', and two, three, or more dots denote 

 second, third, or higher fluxions. M. 

 Leibnitz, instead of a dot, prefixes the 

 letter d to the variable quantity, in order 

 to avoid the confusion of dots in the dif- 

 ferencing of differentials. See CALCULUS 

 DIFFERENTIALS. 



CHARACTERS in Medicine and Phar- 

 macy. 



ij> recipe 



a, a a, or ana, of each 

 alike 



tb a pound or a 

 pint 



g an ounce 



3 a drachm 



^ a scruple 



gr. grains 



P. a pugil 



P. JE. equal quanti- 

 ties 



S. A. according to 

 art 



q. s. a sufficient 



quantity 

 fi,or*s,halfofany 



thing 

 cong. congius, a 



gallon 

 coch. cochleare, a 



spoonful 

 M. manipulus, a 



handful 

 q. pi. as much as 



you please 

 P. P. pulvispatrum, 



the Jesuit's bark. 



CHARACTERS used in music, and of mu- 

 sical notes, with their proportions, are as 

 follow : 



N character of > R Pminim 

 a large $ f crotchet i 



C] a long 4 f quaver 



D a breve 2 semiquaver Ji 



O a semibrere 1 demisemiquaver 1 



ffcharacter of a sharp note : this cha- 

 racter, at the beginning of a line or space, 

 denotes that all the notes in that line are 

 to be taken a semitone higher than in the 

 natural series ; and the same affects all 

 the octaves above or below, though not 

 marked : but when prefixed to any parti- 

 cular note, it shows that note aloe to be 

 taken a semitone higher than it would be 

 without such character. 



[7 or b, character of a flat note : this is 

 tke contrary to the other above, that is, 

 a semitone lower. 



fcj character of a natural note : when in 

 a line or series of artificial notes, marked 

 at the beginning fa or W, the natural note 

 happens to be required, it is denoted by 

 this character. 



A 



gj character of the treble cliff. 



|^j| character of the mean cliff. 

 0: bass cliff. 



2, or , or .*, characters of common 

 duple time : signifying the measure of 

 two crotchets to be equal to two notes, of 

 which four make a semibreve. 



C(fe tl) characters that distinguish the 

 movements of common time, the first im- 

 plying slow, the second quick, and the 

 third very quick. 



J' f'-|'!"Tff' cnaracters f simple 

 trinje time, the measure of which is 

 equal to three semibreves, or to three 

 minims. 



s, or |., or J^, characters of mixed 

 triple time, where the measure is equal to 

 six crotchets or six quavers. 



|, or |, or _?., or |, or |, characters of 

 compound triple time. 



J_*, y, i.|, or i_ 2 , or y, characters 

 of that species of triple time called the 

 measure of twelve times. 



CHARACTERS of the rests or pauses of 

 time. 



1 II 



CHARACTERS, numeral, used to express 

 numbers, are either letters or figures. 

 The Arabic character, called also the 

 common one, because it is used almost 

 throughout Europe in all sorts of calcu- 

 lations, consists of these ten digits, 1, 2, 

 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0. 



The Roman numeral characters con- 

 sist of seven majuscule letters of the 

 Roman alphabet, viz. I, V, X, L, C, D, M. 

 The I denotes one, V five, X ten, L 

 fifty, C a hundred, D five hundred, and 

 M. a thousand. 



