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Applied to animals. 



Same as tbe sign for TVoiiiail. {Dal-ota I.) "Designating sex. 

 From the flowing bair of woman." 



Generic. 



Fingers and thumbs of both hands separated and curved ; place the 

 hands over the breasts and draw them forward a short distance. ( JJie I.) 



Fence. 



Both liands extended, fingers spread ; place those of the right into 

 the spaces between those of the left; then indicate a zigzag course for- 

 ward with the extended index. ( Wyandot I.) " Position of rails in a 

 fence, and the zigzag course." 



Fig'ht, figiitiiig'. (Compare Battle.) 



Make a motion with both fists to and fix), like a pugilist of the 

 eighteenth century, who preferred a high guard. (Burton.) 



Joining hands rai)i(lly. (Macgoiran.) 



Same sign as for Battle. [Dakota I.) 



Both hands clinched, holding them palm to palm :it a distance of 

 about four inches from one another; form short vertical circles, as if 

 "sawing" a hard-mouthed horse. {Dakota VI, VII.) 



Both hands closed, forefingers elevated and extended, facing one 

 another; move palms toward and from each other. {Omaha I.) 



Close both hands, except the index-fingers. Hold them before the 

 breast, the index-fingers upright, ami move these from side to side, 

 opposite each other, like two antagonists facing one another and avoid- 

 ing each other's blows. Tliis movement, followed by that for Dead, 

 would express " They fought, and one was killed." If more than one, 

 hold up two or more fingers. {Iroquois I.) 



Both hands brought up nearly as high as the face, about twelve inches 

 apart, fingers pointing toward those of the opposite hand ; the fingers 

 are then moved carelessly as the hands are brought toward and from 

 one another. ( Wyandot I.) 



Deaf-mute natural si(/ns. — Act as if you strike your left open hand with 

 your right clinched hand, and do the act of striking several times suc- 

 cessively. {Ha.ieustab.) 



liaise the fists as fighters begin to fight. {Larson.) 



Indian. 



Extend both arms, hands clinched (J); jilace the tips of the index- 

 fingers together, and push them first one way and then the other, still 



