"ſs" meaning in German

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "SS",
      "tags": [
        "uppercase"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "letter",
        "3": "lower case",
        "4": "",
        "5": "upper case",
        "6": "SS"
      },
      "expansion": "ſs (lower case, upper case SS)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "ß"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "German entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1822, Carl Friedrich Burdach, Vom Baue und Leben des Gehirns, volume II, division iii: “Vom groſsen Hirne”, chapter iv: ‘Von der Belegungsmasse’, § 197: «Bogenbündel», page 153 [in Antiqua]",
          "text": "Das B o g e n b ü n d e l (fasciculus arcuatus) ist eine mächtige Schicht Belegungsmasse, welche an der äussern Fläche jeder Hemisphäre in gleicher Richtung mit der Zwinge, und als äuſsrer Gegensatz zu derselben, aus dem Unterlappen nach hinten und oben in den Hinterlappen, und, die Unterspalte umkreiſsend, durch den Oberlappen in den Vorderlappen strahlt.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "alternative typography of ß"
      ],
      "id": "en-ſs-de-character-cXVwKA~z",
      "links": [
        [
          "ß",
          "ß#German"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, rare) alternative typography of ß"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "letter",
        "lowercase",
        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ſs"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "SS",
      "tags": [
        "uppercase"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "letter",
        "3": "lower case",
        "4": "",
        "5": "upper case",
        "6": "SS"
      },
      "expansion": "ſs (lower case, upper case SS)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "ß"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "German entries with incorrect language header",
        "German lemmas",
        "German letters",
        "German terms spelled with ſ",
        "German terms with obsolete senses",
        "German terms with quotations",
        "German terms with rare senses",
        "Requests for translations of German quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1822, Carl Friedrich Burdach, Vom Baue und Leben des Gehirns, volume II, division iii: “Vom groſsen Hirne”, chapter iv: ‘Von der Belegungsmasse’, § 197: «Bogenbündel», page 153 [in Antiqua]",
          "text": "Das B o g e n b ü n d e l (fasciculus arcuatus) ist eine mächtige Schicht Belegungsmasse, welche an der äussern Fläche jeder Hemisphäre in gleicher Richtung mit der Zwinge, und als äuſsrer Gegensatz zu derselben, aus dem Unterlappen nach hinten und oben in den Hinterlappen, und, die Unterspalte umkreiſsend, durch den Oberlappen in den Vorderlappen strahlt.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "alternative typography of ß"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ß",
          "ß#German"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, rare) alternative typography of ß"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "letter",
        "lowercase",
        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ſs"
}