MORSE ALPHABET

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.