Sign

(sin.) [From L. signum.] In a general sense, a visible token or representation of anything. Also any motion, appearance, or event which indicates the existence or approach of something else.-(Ast.) The twelfth part of the ecliptic. On account of the prece ion of the equinoxes, the positions of the constellations in the heavens no longer correspond with the divisions of the ecliptic of the same name, but are now considerably in advance of them. See ZODIAC. [s. 825]