chirology

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CHIROLOGY, noun [See Chirologist.] The art or practice of communicating thoughts by signs made by the hands and fingers; a substitute for language or discourse, much used by the deaf and dumb, and by others who communicate with them.
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