[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the sign ('), as used: to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word, whether unpronounced, as ino'erforover,or pronounced, as ingov'tforgovernment;to indicate the possessive case, as inman's;or to indicate plurals of abbreviations and symbols, as inseveral M.D.'s, 3's."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as “O Death, where is thy sting?”"]}]