indicatory

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“About there, I should say,” Dick directed, pointing an indicatory finger, and the drill runner nodded.

From The Plunderer by Duer, Douglas

Hence, it became the practice to place upon barometer scales words indicatory of the weather likely to accompany, or follow, the movements of the mercury; whence the instruments bearing them obtained the name “Weather Glasses.”

From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Negretti, Henry

She stood very still, her face in a glow of shy joy, but her eyes and even her lips grave and quiet; except when sometimes a very tiny indicatory smile broke half way upon them.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan

Trendon pointed to a small bit of wood rather neatly carved to the shape of an indicatory finger, and lashed to the staff, at the height of a man's face.

From The Mystery by White, Stewart Edward

It was originally a picture-writing, which, like the Egyptian, passed from real pictures to indicatory and symbolic pictures or picture-signs.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max