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sign language

  1. communication of thoughts or ideas by means of manual signs and gestures, esp. between two people who have no language in common
  2. a system of signs and gestures used as a language by the deaf

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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