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Done, finished. 



The liaiidss placed edge up and down, parallel to each other, the 

 right hand without, which latter is drawn back as if cutting something. 

 {Dunbar.) "An end left after cutting is suggested; jierhaps our col- 

 loquial 'cut short.'" 



A motion of cutting with the right hand. (Macgoipan.) 



Both fists clinched, placed before the chest, palms facing, then drawn 

 apart and outward toward their respective sides. (Ahsarnl-a I ; iShn- 

 shoni and Banak I.) 



The hands i)laced in front of body horizontal, with lingers extended, 

 arched, meeting near the tips, thumbs resting on tips of forefingers, back 

 of hands outward, separate the two hands by carrying to the inght and 

 left slowly. {Dakota I.) " Diawn apart, an end left." 



From positions about 4 inches apart and a foot in tront of the upper 

 part of the chest, the upright fists, palms facing, are to be separated 

 about 3 feet, eacih one being made to describe an arc downward. Or, 

 after placing the half-closed hands near together and opposite each other, 

 obliquely upward and inward, about a foot in front of the upper part of 

 the chest, quickly separate them about 3 feet. {Dakota IV.) " We will 

 part." 



The right arm is tiexed a little over a right angle and brought closer 

 to the front of chest. The hand in position (S 1), modified by being hori- 

 zontal with palm toward the breast and tii)s of index and ring fingers 

 resting on biceps fiexor muscle of opposite arm. Sometimes the arm is 

 held iu same posture away from the body. The sign is completed by a 

 cutting stroke with hand, edges up and down, from left to right. {Oto 

 I.) " We cut it short; are done." 



Hold the left fist horizontally iu front of the body, then pass the flat 

 and extended right hand, edgewise, quickly downward in front of the 

 left. Sometimes the right is passed down iii front of and by the 

 knuckles of the left. {Kaiou'al; Comanche III; Apache II; Wichita 

 II.) " Cut off-." 



Deaf-mute natural sh/n.s. — Hold both hands slightly extended, with the 

 palms downward, and then turn the hands over, at the same time giving 

 a side movement t(4right and left with each arm. {ffasensfab.) 



Similar to the sign for ]\oiie, meaning " nothing more." {BaJIard.) 



The French and our deaf-mutes give a cutting motion downward with 

 the right hand at a right angle to the left. 



