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Deaf-mute natural fii(/ns. — Smack the lips. {Ballard.) 



Close the hand, while the thumb is up, aud nod the head and smile as 

 if to approve of something good. {Hasenstnb.) 



Use the sign for Haiidwoine, at the same time nod the head as if 



to say "yes." (Zeic/ler.) 



Italian si/pis. — The fingers gathered on the mouth, kissed and stretched 

 out and spread, intimate a dainty morsel. (Butler.) 



The oi)en hand stretched out horizontally, and gently shaken, inti- 

 mates that a thing is so so, not good and not bad. (Butler.) 



Some of the signs api)ear to be connected with a pleasant taste in the 

 mouth, as is the sign of the French and our deaf-mutes, waving thence 

 the hand, back upward, with fingers straight and joined, in a forward 

 and down ward curve. The same gesture with hand sidewise is theirs 

 and ours for general assent : " Very well ! " 



Good, Heart is. 



Strike with right hand on the Jieart and make the sign for Good, 

 from the heart outward. (Cheyenne I.) 



Touch the left breast two or three times with the ends of the fingers 

 of the riglit hand, then make the sign for CirOOd. (Dal-otalY.) 



Place the fingers of tlie fiat riglit hand over the breast, then make the 

 sign for Ciiood. (Dakota VII.) 



Move hand to position in front of breast, fingers extended, palm 

 downward ( W I), then with quick movement throw hand forward and 

 to the side to a point 12 or 15 inches from body, hand same as in first 

 position. (Sahaptin I.) "Cut it off." 



Good, Very. 



Place left hand in position in front of body with all fingers closed 

 except first, thumb lying on second (]fl 1 changed to left), then with 

 forefinger of right hand extended in same way (M 2) point to end 

 of forefinger of left hand, move it up the arm till near the body 

 and then to a point in front of breast to make the sign Good. 

 (Sahaptin I.) 



Grandmother. See Relatioiiivhiii. 



GraMS. (Compare Forest.) 



Point to the ground with the index, and then turn the fingers upward 

 to denote growth. If the grass be long, raise the hand high ; and if 

 jellow, point out that color. (Burton.) 



