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FafNting". 



Klackon face, neck, and bands. In camp sit cross-legged, eyes bent 

 on the earth; fold hands in front, palms up, remaining motioidess, fre- 

 quently uttering in a low voice, progress (?). When standing perfectly 

 erect and motionless. [Ojihwa IV.) 



Fat. 



Raise the left arm with fist closed, back outward, grasp the arm with 

 the right hand aud rub downward thereon. ( Wied.) 



(1) Both hands, loosely closed, brought near to and on a level with 

 the shoulders; (2) pushed a few inches straight forward and slightly 

 upward. {Cheyenne I.) "Probably lumps of fat taken from a large or 

 broad animal." 



Both lists clinched, placed before the breast, thumbs touching and 

 palms downward ; then draw them outward and downward, forming the 

 upper half of a circle. {AbsaroJci I; IShoshoni and Banal: I.) 



Sign for ^Tlaii, and then the sign for Big" made in front of the abdo- 

 men. (Dalota 1.) "Big in body." 



Hold the opened left hand obli(|uely upward toward the right, a foot in 

 front of the breast, palm upward, backward, and to the right; grasp the 

 ulnar side of the hand between the lingers and thumb of the right hand, 

 the thumb on the palm, Jind rub it lightly from the base of the fingers to 

 the wrist several times. [Dukoia IV.) "Thick, and therefore fat." 



J^oth arms are tiexed inward and both hands brought befoi-e the 

 body, divergent and extended fingers drooped. The hands are much in 

 the i)osition (Q) on type plates. In this position the hands describe a 

 semicircle over the abdomen, and are carried over the limbs severally. 

 If tlie sign is applied to anj' other object than man, the sign correspond- 

 ing to said object is first made. [Otq and Missouri I.) "Of increased 

 dinicTisions or that which increases one's size." 



Father. See Relatioii!>>lii|i. 



Fear, eowardice; coward. 



Tiie two hands with the tingers turned inward ojtposite to the lower 

 ribs, then brought upward with a tremulous movement as if to repre- 

 sent the common idea of the heart rising up to the throat. (Dunbar.) 



The head stooped down and the arm thrown np to protect it; a quick 

 motion. [Lonr/.) 



Point forward] with the index, followed by the remaining fingers; each 

 time that is done draw back the index. ( Wied.) Impossible to keep the 

 coward to the front. 



