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sign-language

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Adj.1.sign-language - used of the language of the deaf
gestural, sign, signed
communicatory, communicative - able or tending to communicate; "was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew"- W.M.Thackeray


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He was the author of a dozen text-books on the art of speaking correctly, and also of a most ingenious sign-language which he called "Visible Speech.
The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert N. View in context
When the latter had explained in the strange sign-language that passes for speech between the Mahars and their fighting men the Sagoth turned again to me:
Pellucidar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
I pulled up three or four of the bottom boards, got a couple of buckets from a locker, and by unmistakable sign-language invited them to fall to.
Tales of the Fish Patrol by London, Jack View in context
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