local sign


noun
  1. physiol the information from a receptor in the eye or the skin signifying respectively a direction in space or a given point on the body

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How to use local sign in a sentence

  • Half a day, or even a day before any local sign of changing wind or growing cloud appears the barometer is on the job.

    Reading the Weather | Thomas Morris Longstreth
  • Our local sign-painter put a crest or, rather, a kind of royal hatchment, on the panels of both.

    'Charge It' | Irving Bacheller