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First make the sigu for CrraK!!«, and then the right hand (W) is 

 moved us though waving it over tiie grass. ( Dakota I.) "A covering 

 of tlie grass." 



Fruitless ; in vain. 



Tlie left arm is brought forward, hand as in (L 1), moditied by thumb 

 being closed. The right hand then takes position (S 1), modified by be- 

 ing held horizontal. Now the- left index, extended as above, punches 

 the right palm, and is then swept backward and downward by left side. 

 (Oto I.) 



Full, as a box or sack. 



Right and left hands (W, with tingers slightly bent) are brougiit 

 together in front of body, ends of fingers pointing outward, then carry 

 the right hand quickly over the back of the left, and back as though 

 brushing off the surplus. {Ihihita I.) " It is full ; brushing off the sur- 

 plus." 



Deaf III ufc natural signs. — Place the hand down, and raising it, and 

 moving it right and left as if at the top of the sack or box. (Ballard.) 



Clinch your hand in the form of the letter C, and over the supposed 

 convex surface above it pass tlie other hand somewhat clinched also. 



[Gross.) 



The same as Fnoiig'll. (Larson.) 

 Appetite satisfied. (Compare Fiioiii^il.) 



Finger and thumb rising from the mouth. (Macf/owan.) 



Make the sign for Eat, and when completed and hand brought before 

 abdomen, as in type (T 1) modified by being held horizontal and arched 

 witli back outward, it then describes an arc over abdomen as to indi- 

 cate fullness. (Oto I.) " Filled up; distended." 



Make the sign of Fat, then close the right hand, spreading the in- 

 dex and thumb wide a[)art, palm toward the body, then pass it from the 

 breast upward to before the mouth. ( Dakota VII; Kulowal; Comanche 

 III ; Apache II ; Wichita II.) 



Future, io eoine (in time). 



Kight index upright (J, except ba^k of hand toward the body) is 

 pushed straight forward, outward, from the shoulder and drawn back 

 three or four times, arm extended to its full capacity. Seems to be con- 

 nected with Far. (Dakota I.) " Far in time." 



4iia|i; eaiion. 



Indicate the walls thereof with the hands, in front of the body, palma 

 toward each other, fingers extended and pointed downward. (Ara- 

 paho I.) 



