signs manual
- plural of sign manual.
Example Sentences
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These are carved on beams of houses and on house poles, or cut or drawn on men's persons, and are used as signs manual, serving thus to indicate to strangers a man's clan connections.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris
It is something to read the real bona fide signs manual of such fellows as William of Orange, Count Egmont, Alexander Farnese, Philip the Second, Cardinal Granville and the rest of them.
From Historical Essays by Rhodes, James Ford
The second of signs manual, optical, and otherwise by gesture sign-ificant.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
By the illiterate other signs, besides the monogram, came to be employed, such as the cross, &c., as signs manual.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
After he had mastered the peculiarities of their signs manual, he took up that of Mr. Benedict.
From Sevenoaks by Holland, J. G. (Josiah Gilbert)
