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relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case

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  1. adj. relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case
  2. n. one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
  3. j:100 a. relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case; X and Y and Z etc"