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finger alphabet

noun as in alphabet used to spell words in sign language

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Bettesworth had once seen "a dummy, talkin' with a friend of his," in the finger alphabet.

I then said to her with the finger alphabet, "wind fast," or "wind slow," holding her hands and showing her how to do as I wished.

This position of the fingers is that for the letter N in the finger alphabet, the initial for the word non.

In the Middle Ages monks in their enforced silence often resorted to a finger alphabet.

There I first became acquainted with the doctrines taught by this people, by reading and by means of the finger alphabet.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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