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Definition of Manual alphabet

1. Noun. An alphabet used by the deaf; letters are represented by finger positions.

Definition of Manual alphabet

1. Noun. (context: dactology) An alphabet whose letters are represented by positions of the hand and fingers. ¹

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Literary usage of Manual alphabet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Annals of the Deaf by Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf (1909)
"That the results of using the manual alphabet hitherto in Germany have not been ... Pie regarded the American single-hand manual alphabet as the one best ..."

2. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1856)
"the manual alphabet. Three children are presented, two bop and one girl, and the execution of their faces and forms is very beautiful. ..."

3. American Journal of Education (1856)
"the manual alphabet. Three children are presented, two boys and one girl, and the execution of their faces and forms is very beautiful. ..."

4. The Association Review by American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (1908)
"Oral, Manual, manual alphabet, and Oral-manual alphabet. The Combined System schools employ all methods that have been found advantageous in educating the ..."

5. Education of Deaf Children: Evidence of Edward Miner Gallaudet and Alexander by Edward Miner Gallaudet, Alexander Graham Bell (1892)
"To the invalid and to the sick room the manual alphabet comes, as it were, ... How perfectly, how beautifully, the manual alphabet performs its functions ..."

6. The New England Gazetteer: Containing Descriptions of the States, Counties by John Hayward (1857)
"She has been taught the manual alphabet of the deaf mutes, and now converses by these signs with wonderful rapidity. She receives the communications of ..."

7. The Deaf and Dumb: Or, A Collection of Articles Relating to the Condition of by Edwin John Mann (1836)
"THE manual alphabet, In giving a representation of the manual alphabet, respectively in use in England and on the continent which we think may be of ..."

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