Historical Sign Language Database
Georgetown University
December 21, 2024
Search: FLOWER
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| Entry ID | Book Source | Reference Gloss | Author’s gloss | Description | Page | URL |
| 328 | Higgins (1923) | FLOWER | FLOWER | FLOWER: Right "&" hand as if holding imaginary blossom, stem towards palm, passed from cheek to cheek before the nose. | 61 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=328&refid=higgins1923 |
| 894 | Long (1918) | FLOWER | FLOWER | FLOWER: Hold the "S" or the end of the "&" hand directly under the nose as if holding a bunch of flowers there to smell. Some make this sign first under one nostril and then the other. Some place the end of the "&" hand under the nose and then open out the fingers to nearly "5" hand. XVIII,350. | 98 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=894&refid=long1918 |
| 895 | Long (1918) | FLOWER~GROW | BLOSSOM | BLOSSOM: Sign for "flower;" then bring the "&" hands together, ends pointing upward, and open them out to "5" hands, thus indicating the opening of the flower. | 98 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=895&refid=long1918 |
| 219 | Michaels (1923) | FLOWER | FLOWER | FLOWER: 1. Cluster the fingers around the thumb of one hand. 2. Put the hand to the nose and smell as you do a flower. (Spell variety.) | 60 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=219&refid=michaels1923 |
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| Tag ID | Signer(Year) | Reference Gloss | Context | Segment | URL | |
| 43 | Veditz (1913) | FLOWER | N/A | AND PUT++(2h-alt_at_lt) FLOWER, OR(rf) GREEN cl-d:CC(wreath,circ,lt) ON 3P-POSS(lt) BURY(lt) | 6 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/films/tablefilm.php?source=veditz&glossid=43 |