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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Stichometry

· Stich·om·e·try · IPA
01 n. Measurement of books by the number of lines which they contain.
  1. 1.
    Measurement of books by the number of lines which they contain.
  2. 2.
    Division of the text of a book into lines; especially, the division of the text of books into lines accommodated to the sense, -- a method of writing manuscripts used before punctuation was adopted.