Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to chironomy or the art of gesticulation.
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- adjective Relating to
chironomy .
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Examples
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Mackaye sat in his usual place, smoking a clean pipe, and assisting his meditations by certain mysterious chironomic signs; while opposite to him was Farmer Porter -- a stone or two thinner than when I had seen him last, but one stone is not much missed out of seventeen.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847
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