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SIG'NATURE, n. [L. signo, to sign.]

1. A sign, stamp or mark impressed. The brain being well furnished with various traces, signatures and images. The natural and indelible signature of God stamped on the human soul.

2. In old medical writers, and external mark or character on a plant, which was supposed to indicate its suitableness to cure particular diseases, or diseases of particular parts. This plants with yellow flowers were supposed to be adapted to the cure of the jaundice, &c. Some plants bear a very evident signature of their nature and use.

3. A mark for proof, or proof from marks.

4. Sign manual; the name of a person written or subscribed by himself.

5. Among printers, a letter or figure at the bottom of the first page of a sheet or half sheet, by which the sheets are distinguished and their order designated, as a direction to the binder. Every successive sheet has a different letter or figure, and if the sheets are more numerous than the letters of the alphabet, the a small letter is added to the capital one; thus Aa, Bb, In large volumes, the signatures are sometimes composed of letters and figures; thus 5A, 5B. But some printer now use figures only for signatures.

6. In physiognomy, an external mark or feature by which some persons pretend to discover the nature and qualities of a thing, particularly the temper and genius of persons.

SIG'NATURE, v.t. To mark; to distinguish. [Not in use.]

1913 Definition
Signature (signature)
n.(?)
Sig"na*ture
[F. (cf. It. signatura, segnatura, Sp. *** LL. signatura
  1. A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal.

    The brain, being well furnished with various traces, signatures, and images. I. Watts.

    The natural and indelible signature of God, which human souls . . . are supposed to be stamped with. Bentley.

  2. Especially, the name of any person, written with his own hand, employed to signify that the writing which precedes accords with his wishes or intentions] a sign manual; an autograph.
  3. An outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated.

    Some plants bear a very evident signature of their nature and use. Dr. H. More.

  4. A resemblance between the external characters of a disease and those of some physical agent, for instance, that existing between the red skin of scarlet fever and a red cloth; -- supposed to indicate this agent in the treatment of the disease.
  5. The designation of the key (when not C major, or its relative, A minor) by means of one or more sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff, immediately after the clef, affecting all notes of the same letter throughout the piece or movement. Each minor key has the same signature as its relative major.
  6. A letter or figure placed at the bottom of the first page of each sheet of a book or pamphlet, as a direction to the binder in arranging and folding the sheets.
    (b)
  7. That part of a prescription which contains the directions to the patient. It is usually prefaced by S or Sig. (an abbreviation for the Latin signa, imperative of signare to sign or mark).
  8. To mark with, or as with, a signature or signatures.
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