Historical Sign Language Database
Georgetown University
April 26, 2024
Search: ABOVE
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| Entry ID | Book Source | Reference Gloss | Author’s gloss | Description | Page | URL |
| 2 | Higgins (1923) | ABOVE | ABOVE | ABOVE: Natural sign, pointing above the object previously signed. | 5 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=2&refid=higgins1923 |
| 680 | Long (1918) | EXCEED | EXCESSIVE, EXCEED, ABOVE THE ORDINARY | EXCESSIVE, EXCEED, ABOVE THE ORDINARY: Placing the left bent hand in front, palm down, rest the bent right hand upon the backs of the fingers, and then carry it up more or less according as the excess is great or small. XIII,266. | 78 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=680&refid=long1918 |
| 3 | Michaels (1923) | OVER | ABOVE | ABOVE: 1. Hold your left hand before you with the back of the hand turned up. 2. Close the fingers of the right hand in the palm of the hand. 3. Have the thumb sticking up. 4. Move the right hand around over the left hand in a circular manner. | 19 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=3&refid=michaels1923 |
| FILMS: | ||||||
| Tag ID | Signer(Year) | Reference Gloss | Context | Segment | URL | |
| 20 | Bryant (1915) | ABOVE | N/A | ONE BEAUTIFUL WARM ALL-DAY fs:NOV NINETEEN ONE~THOUSAND EIGHT~HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE PRESIDENT L-I-N-C-O-L-N GOING(-to-X) ARRIVE(-to-X) HERE cl:LEGSonB(ride-horse) ON HORSE(2h) IN PEOPLE(rf)~CLASS(rt) ABOVE TWENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE | 1 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/films/tablefilm.php?source=bryant&glossid=20 |
| 46 | Marshall (1920) | lasso-above-head | N/A | cl-i:BB(place-on-wagon) ON cl-d-trace:11(wagon-wheels,bs:sideways) SMALL(exp), 1P-POSS DAD COW cl-i:XxXx(lasso-above-head) pose:pull-wagon(bs:rt-side) CANT(neg) | 6 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/films/tablefilm.php?source=marshall&glossid=46 |