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Show FEAR- WOMAtf- QUANTITY. 23 left breast just over the heart to imitate palpitation. ( TitchkemdtsJcL) The Sioux use the same sign without closing the fingers to represent a heart. ( McChesney.) The French deaf- mutes, besides beating the heart, add a nervous backward shrinking with both hands. Our deaf- mutes omit the beating of the heart, except for excessive terror. 4. Point forward several times with the index, followed by the remaining fingers, each time drawing the index back ( Wied), as if impossible to keep the man to the front. 5. May be signified by making the sign for a squaw, if the one in fear be a man or boy. ( Lemly.) 6. Cross the arms over the breast, fists closed, bow the head over the crossed arms, but turn it a little to the left. ( Dorsey.) Woman has four signs; one expressing the mammae, one indicating shortness as compared with man, and the two most common severally indicating the longer hair or more flowing dress. The hair is sometimes indicated by a motion with the right hand as though drawing a comb through the entire length of the hair on that side of the head ( McChesney)) and sometimes by turning the right hand fibout the ear, as if putting the hair behind it. ( Dodge.) The deaf- mutes generally mark the line of the bonnet- string down the cheek. Quantity, many, much. Six wholly distinct executions and several conceptions. 1. The flat of the right hand patting the back of the left several times, proportioned in number to the quantity. ( Dunbar.) Simple repetition. 2. Clutching at the air several times with both hands. ( Kohl.) Same idea of repetition, more objective. This sign may easily be confounded with the mode of counting or enumeration by presenting the ten digits. 3. Hands and arms passed curvilinearly outward and downward as if forming a large globe, then hands closed and elevated as if something were grasped in each, and held up as high as the face. ( Long.) 4. Hands held scoop- fashion, palms toward each other, about two feet apart, at the height of the lowfer ribs, finger- ends downward; then with a diving motion, as if scooping up small articles from a sack or barrel, |