gesticulation

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The creature can close or open this diadem at will by bringing the denticulations together or by spreading them out wide.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

With their long legs, their forehead with its radiating denticulations and their flattened wing-cases, they are fairly successful smaller editions of the famous pill-roller.

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

The radiating denticulations of the forehead, the insect's gambols in the bright sunlight?

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

The first brown stains show themselves on the denticulations of the forehead and fore-legs, the sign of an earlier maturity in the implements of labour, which are to acquire an exceptional hardness.

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Statues, stained glass, rose-windows, arabesques, denticulations, capitals, and bas-reliefs,--it combines all these flowers of the fancy according to the logarithm that suits it best.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)