comma (1 term of rhetoric; 2 fig. for punctuation)
1.
short member of a sentence (fig.) Tim. I. i. 49*
“no levell'd malice Infects
one comma in the course I hold.”
2.
break of continuity
Ham. V. ii. 42*
“a 'tween their
amities” (various conj. and
explanations).
