| Confusingly, the word obelus was later used for the printer's character we often call a dagger, another symbol with a point. |
| In his peculiar notation, Asides are marked by inverted commas, and obvious stage business is indicated by an obelus. |
| This obelus directs readers to a four-line footnote that explains the terms and conditions attached to this freebie. |
| The division sign was in Rahn's time known either as the obelus or sometimes the obelisk, from a Greek word meaning a roasting spit. |
