"short s" meaning in English

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          "text": "Most of it was in modern face of a bad cut, small pica size; the apocrypha was in long primer, old style face, although having short s’s, but the peculiarity was that one signature in the Psalms was in old style with long s’s.",
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        "The s character, as distinct from the long s — the ſ character."
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          "s",
          "s"
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          "long s"
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        [
          "ſ",
          "ſ"
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        {
          "roman": "s",
          "word": "σ"
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        {
          "roman": "s",
          "word": "ς"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "round s"
        },
        {
          "word": "terminal s"
        }
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "the character s",
          "word": "in fraktur: s"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "the character s",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "word": "in antiqua: rundes s"
        },
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "the character s",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Rund-s"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "the character s",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "kurzes s"
        }
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  "word": "short s"
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      "roman": "s",
      "word": "σ"
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      ],
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the character s",
      "word": "in fraktur: s"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the character s",
      "tags": [
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the character s",
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the character s",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "kurzes s"
    }
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  "word": "short s"
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