Crossword-Solution: CARET 5 letters, 139 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

This goes all the way back to Algol-60, which used the archaic ASCII `up-arrow' that later became the caret; this was picked up by Kemeny and Kurtz's original BASIC, which in turn influenced the design of the `bc(1)' and `dc(1)' UNIX tools, which have probably done most to reinforce the convention on USENET.

The PETSCII set used left-arrow and up-arrow (as in old-style ASCII) instead of underscore and caret, placed the unshifted alphabet at positions 65--90, put the shifted alphabet at positions 193--218, and added graphics characters.

His dog (not the immortal Luath, but a successor unknown to fame, _caret quia vate sacro_), apparently sensible of some neglect, followed his master to and fro, to the confusion of the dancers.

The apartments also are rich, and I see nothing wanting but a family and heirs to sustain the glory and inheritance of the illustrious ancestor who raised it—_sed caret pedibus_; these are wanting.

Bold in the first onset, they cannot bear a repulse, being easily thrown into confusion as soon as they turn their backs; and they trust to flight for safety, without attempting to rally, which the poet thought reprehensible in martial conflicts: “Ignavum scelus est tantum fuga;” and elsewhere— “In vitium culpæ ducit fuga, si caret arte.” The character given to the Teutones in the Roman History, may be applied to this people.