- This delightful book introduces children to the idea of alphabetical order and helps prepare them for higher-level dictionaries. Engaging illustrations bring words to life. Includes 900 age-appropriate entry words. Multicultural characters appear throughout in familiar, family-based situations.
- A picture dictionary or pictorial dictionary is a dictionary that uses photos or drawings to illustrate what the headwords mean.
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- A sign language (also signed language) is a language which, instead of acoustically conveyed sound patterns, uses visually transmitted sign patterns (manual communication, body language) to convey meaning–simultaneously combining hand shapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body,
- gestural: used of the language of the deaf
- A system of communication using visual gestures and signs, as used by deaf people
- language expressed by visible hand gestures
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Its many features include:
over 4,500 signs
complete descriptions of each sign, plus full-torso illustrations separate sections on geographical signs
how numbers are signed in different contexts and the role of finger spelling
a subject index
This dictionary is the only one that makes it easy for you to match the right signs with the right meanings by giving you:
alternate signs for the same meaning, plus different signs for different meanings of the same word
complete definitions that show you which meanings go with which signs over 3,000 cross references to the illustrated signs
The Cully Flaug'd
Over an upturned ‘dining-room’ chair, we see an elderly bespectacled man, his posterior exposed, looking back over his shoulder at a young woman who is in the act of beating him with a switch. She is holding her dress up at the front and his gaze is fixed on her (presumably) exposed crotch.
> The accompanying caption reads,
What Drudgery’s here, what Bridewell-like Correction!
To bring an Old Man, to an Insurrection.
Firk[1] on Fair Lady [,] Flaug the Fumblers Thighs [,]
Without such Conjuring th’ Devil will not rise
> It is signed MLauron pinx, i.e. ‘M[arcellus] Laroon painted’ (the canvas which this print copies) or—more likely by this date, in my opinion—‘M[arcellus] Laroon engraved’ (this print). Laroon died in 1702 and is best known for the drawings of Metropolitan tradesmen and –women that John Savage engraved for Pierce Tempest’s 1688 edition of The Cryes of London. As well as paintings and etchings, he is known to have produced at least five mezzotints in the early 1680s.[2] It is possible that he engraved the present print himself, or it might have been engraved by John Smith (who engraved others after paintings by Laroon), who may also have been the publisher.
> Laroon was best-known in his own time—as now—for his Dutch-style genre scenes of ‘low life’, a fact that led to a disapproving assessment of his work by the appropriately-named Vertue: ‘His thoughts in his pictures shew him to be a Man of levity, of loose conversation & morals suteable to his birth & education, being low & spurious.'[3]
> But it is time we addressed ourselves to the subject of this print. Quite what is going on exactly in this apparently uniquely surviving impression of a late seventeenth-century English mezzotint? Is it intentionally pornographic? I feel certain it is, but also that it is not without a hint of satire. And what of the title and caption—The Cully Flaug’d and …Flaug the Fumblers Thighs?
> There is no doubt that ‘flaug’ is merely a phonetic variant of ‘flog’, as we now spell the word in Standard English, but, surprisingly, at the date this print was produced, the verb was still very new to the language—OED’s first citation is from Coles’s English Dictionary (1676)[4] where it is defined as to whip, but marked as a cant word. Published in 1680, Tell-Troth’s Knavery of Astrology claims that ‘of late years there’s a neat Invention, called Flogging, invented on purpose to pleasure Old Fumblers.’
> The caption—far from being the hackwork such labels are often considered—is a masterpiece of condensed wit. Consider the word Insurrection alone—the artist shows us a world in which a youngish woman, hardly more than a girl, can beat an elderly man, as if a reversal of the schoolmaster birching the naughty pupil: this is the revolution of the World Turned Upside Down—albeit at his sexual prompting—and given the suggestive import of the final line of the caption it is impossible not to hear erection in the word too.
> Significantly, the elderly man in our print is also termed a Fumbler, defined in B.E’s New Dictionary of the Canting Crew (1699) as ‘an unperforming Husband, one that is insufficient’, echoing the alternative title of The Contented Cuckold ballad (1686), ‘the fortunate fumbler… he being insufficient to perform’. In the 1678 edition of Ray’s A Collection of English Proverbs the expression, ‘He is free of Fumbler’s Hall’, is glossed, ‘Spoken of a man that cannot get his wife with child’. The fumbler, then, is certainly an infertile man, and often an impotent one too. The caption to our print with its innuendo couched in terms of conjuring up the Devil clearly suggests that the elderly man is unable to achieve an erection without being thrashed in this manner.
> OED’s citation at ‘flauging’—curiously given a separate entry in the Dictionary—and its unnecessarily cautious definition, ? = ‘flogging’, has at least the merit of being highly apposite to our print: it is from the opening scene of D’Urfey’s Injured Princess (1682): ‘Ask him if he knows where we may find a sound Wench: he’s a flauging old Whipster, I warrant him’ (with ‘whipster’ being defined as ‘one addicted to whipping or flogging’). Of even greater assistance to us here, however, is Gordon Williams’ Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature (London, 1994) which gives a separate entry to ‘flogging cully’, where it is defined as a ‘whore’s client who desires whipping’, a term first found in Head’s Canting Academy (1673), and it is from Williams that I take most of my remaining examples. B.E.’s definition of ‘flogging’ in his New Dictionary of the Canting Crew (1699) reads, ‘a Naked Woman’s whipping (with Rods) an Old (usually)… Lecher.’ In London S
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Is the occult hand sign, in its many forms and varieties, the international secret language of the Freemasons and other covert societies? Manfred Adler, in his German-language book, The Freemasons and The Vatican, says the answer to this question is, yes.3
He writes that according to the findings of a United States Senate Committee that investigated the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
"Ninety percent of the secret news is transmitted via the media, in particular the press, with the aid of coded texts and pictures."4
Messages in the Media
Others, too, besides Adler, have noted the frequent use of hand signs in the media as signals of secret society insiders. Juan Maler, Argentine author and Masonic researcher, explains that the use of the hand sign is for the uninitiated a completely trivial and inconspicuous gesture.
"But for the members of the Secret Societies, the hand sign is used as a sign of recognition by those who are in a leading position or who have a mission to fulfill and usually appears with a relevant text."5
Johannes Rothkranz, German authority on Masonic signs, suggests that,
"If one collects the photos of well-known personalities from the daily papers, then one possesses, in a very short time, a great number of conspicuous and — for those who understand the signs—also meaningful poses."6
According to Rothkranz, the historic handshake between Helmut Kohl, then the Chancellor of West Germany, and Modrow, the head of the Communist East German regime which sealed the deal for German reunification was clearly a Masonic handshake. Rothkranz further notes that the historic handshake of the two elitists was shown at length on European television.7
A Symbol of Power
Why is the use of the hand considered to be so significant as a means of concealed communications by occultists? The Herder Dictionary of Symbols states that the hand is "a symbol of activity and power." It notes that finding oneself "in the hands of a ruler or God means being in that person’s power, but also standing under that person’s protection."8 The dictionary goes on to say that the "shaking or offering of the hand is a sign of friendly openers, devotion or forgiveness." But a closed hand signifies secrets or keeping silent. Other uses of hand signs are to indicate fear, threats, devotion, admiration, and argument.
The Herder Dictionary explains, too, that, "In antiquity, covered or veiled hands were generally customary when one approached high dignitaries." Hands with palms resting on one’s knees express deep concentration and reflection.9
The hand can also be used as a threat to any would-be traitors or betrayer of the Illuminist cause. In the authoritative Richardson’s Monitor of Freemasonry we find an example of this in the second sign of the Super Excellent Master Mason. The sign consists of raising the right hand, making the two first fingers like a fork, and simulating the gouging out of the eyes of a "traitor."
On the Other Hand…
There is a great symbolic difference between the use of the left and right hands. The right hand is said to be the hand of blessing, a good and positive influence, and those who use it in the occult world are known as those on the "right-handed path." This is considered "white magic."
Those on the left-handed path, however, are practitioners of "black magic." Full-fledged Satanists are typically of the left-handed path, though, in reality, it does not matter to the devil which hand is used!
The left hand is ever considered the sinister hand. It is associated with words like diabolical, witchlike, clever, deceptive, sly, cunning, evil, wrong, backward, and perverse. The evil eye is said to be the left eye. Some early Christians (for example, the writer of the apocryphic Gospel of Nicodemus) taught that of the two
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