Signs

Signs.

1. The great bells at Canterbury in the 12th century; one took twenty-four and another thirty-two men to sound it.

2. A most intricate system of talking with the fingers, used by the Clugniacs to indicate their wants in hall.

⇒Bible concordance for SIGN.

3. Gerbert furnishes a minute account of a similar manual telegraph made use of by the precentor in a choir.

⇒Definition of sign

⇒See also the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.