View sign 'across'

across

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Description

Holding extended left hand in front of body, back up, fingers pointing to right; pass the partially compressed and slightly curved right hand, back to right, over left on a curve upwards to front and then downwards.


References: sit
Synonyms: on the other side of, pass over, to cross

Notes

Tomkins says to hold the hand about twelve inches out from body, but does not mention which direction the hands should be pointing.

Clark notes that the left hand is usually used to denote the object crossed, and then this sign would be made.

Across, in the sense of, on the other side, the right hand, after passing beyond left, is held with back nearly to front, fingers pointing about to left (this position taken by wrist action just as right hand passed left), as though something was laid on the other side; and in case of someone waiting on the other side, the right hand would be closed as it is moved over left, and after passing beyond the sign for SIT would be made; literally sitting on the other side.