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Title: Dagger (mark) Authors: Venue: Wikipedia Year: unknown Canonical: wiki:dagger-mark URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_(mark) Collector: wikipedia OA: true ABSTRACT A dagger, obelisk, or obelus † is a typographical mark that usually indicates a footnote if an asterisk has already been used. The symbol is also used to indicate death or extinction. It is one of the modern descendants of the obelus, a mark used historically by scholars as a critical or highlighting indicator in manuscripts. In older texts, it is called an obelisk.