Historical Sign Language Database
Georgetown University
April 20, 2024
Search: BUY
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| Entry ID | Book Source | Reference Gloss | Author’s gloss | Description | Page | URL |
| 364 | Long (1918) | BUY | BUY | BUY: With the right hand as if holding money between the thumb and fingers place it, back down, in the palm of the left and then reach the right hand out as if offering the money to some one. VIII,174. | 49 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=364&refid=long1918 |
| 101 | Michaels (1923) | BUY | BUY | BUY: 1. Strike the back of your right hand in the palm of your left hand. 2. Move the right hand out forward, and let some imaginary thing fall out of the hand. 3. Make motion of taking something with the right hand. | 38 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=101&refid=michaels1923 |
| 383 | Michaels (1923) | BUY~EXCHANGE~AGENT | MERCHANT | MERCHANT: 1. Pat the back of the right hand in the palm of the left hand: money. 2. Move the right hand out forward and make motion of dropping something: buy. 3. Let the tips of the index fingers and thumbs come together and hold the hands near the breast. 4. Move the hands outward and back two times: sell. 5. Put the palms to the breast and move the hands downward: for ant or er as in lawyer. | 89 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=383&refid=michaels1923 |
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| Tag ID | Signer(Year) | Reference Gloss | Context | Segment | URL | |
| 863 | Gallaudet (1910) | BUY | N/A | 1P-SELF BUY IN L-Y-N-T-O-N ONE cl-d:55(across-chest) S-K-I-N O-F A BEAUTIFUL S-T-A-G AND HAVE IN 1P-POSS HOUSE(lc) NOW FOR KNOW~STAY T-H-E L-O-R-N-A D-O-O-N-E C-O-U-N-T-R-Y | 75 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/films/tablefilm.php?source=gallaudet&glossid=863 |