105. (3.) In some cases modifications may be applied to a stem to represent, not the whole of a succeeding word, but only the first part of it, the remainder being supplied

"by the next stroke. Thus, in the phrase my time

the first letter of the word time is expressed by halving the preceding stroke; and the word is completed by joining the m. So in the phrase in like manner

the I hook on in supplies the first letter of the succeeding word like. In the phrase in receipt

the r hook on in gives us the r which begins the word receipt.