Stichometry

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stichometry \Stich*om"e*try\, n. [Gr. ? a line + -metry.]
     1. Measurement of books by the number of lines which they
        contain.
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     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.
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