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Italian signs. — The vulgarism "to look between bars" for to be iu 

 prison corresponds to the gesture which is made by crossing the fingers 

 of both hands before the eyes so as to make a checkered grate, or by 

 covering the ej'es with the fingers of one hand drawn apart. (Butler.) 



Specifically for captive. 



The arms hanging down and wrists together or crossed. [Butler.) 

 To take. 



Both ha-nds, fingers slightly hooked, thumb lying against forefinger, 

 suddenly thrust forward to the left and jerked back (juickly toward the 

 body. (Vheycniie I.) 



The left hand held about IS inches in front of the left breast, obliquely 

 upward, edge of fingers outward (B 13), is (juickly seized around the 

 wrist by the right hand, passed from in front of the right breast, back 

 upward, and drawn rapidly in toward and near the left breast. {Dakota 

 I.) " He is come; I have taken him ; leading him cai)tive." 



Both arms are tiexed before breast, and hands made to execute the 

 sign for tight; the left arm then, semiextended, is left a second; then 

 siezed at wrist by the right hand in type position (CJ); palms of both 

 face the ground. [Oto I.) "One taken in figlit or misconduct." 



Property. See Po^i><ew!>iion. 



Prudent or Caiitioiiix. ((Jomi)are Dniiger.) 



Hold right hand iu front of right breast or partly to the right side 

 and lower down, palm down, gently move it up and down two or three 

 times, then hold it still a few moments, and gently depress the hand, 

 with slight bow of the head to right {Ojibwa IV.) 



See Dailg'er. Prudent, cautious, are not the opposite of /'oo/. (I)a- 

 kot(( I.) 



Place the tips of the extended fingers against the temples, then i)oiut 

 them upward, the eyes following tlie same direction. " Superior judg- 

 ment." ( Wyandot I.) 



Pnreliase. See Tratle. 



Put it back. See Let alone. 



Qu.intil.v, large; many; niiieli; uiiinher. 



The fiat of the right hand patting the back of the left hand, which is 

 repeated in proportion to the greater or lesser quantity. (Dunbar.) 

 Simple repetition. 



The hands and arms are passed in a curvilinear direction outward and 

 downward, as if showing the form of a large globe ; then the hands 



