Dictionary entry

Morse alphabet

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Morse″ al″pha‐bet (?). A telegraphic alphabet in very general use, inventing by Samuel F.B.Morse, the inventor of Morse's telegraph. The letters are represented by dots and dashes impressed or printed on paper, as,.- (A), -... (B), -.. (D),. (E),.. (O),... (R), — (T), etc., or by sounds, flashes of light, etc., with greater or less intervals between them.