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But he would not have obtained for it the sailors' signs manual, had either the doctor or myself been present at the time.

From Omoo by Melville, Herman

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

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

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

The employment of marks or signs manual went out of general use after the 12th century, in the course of which the affixing or appending of seals became the common method of executing deeds.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various