signpost (sinpost)

A post holding a sign. Specifically-(a) A post having an arm from which a sign hangs or swings, as before a tavern. (b) A guide-post. He [the comic man] turned round signposts and made them point the wrong way, in order to send people whither they did not wish to go. W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 100. sign-symbol (sin's imbol), n. A symbol denoting a row or matrix of plus and minus signs. signum (sig'num), n.; pl. signa (-na) [L., a mark, sign: see sign .] In Saxon law , a cro prefixed to a charter or deed as evidence of a ent. sigterite (sig'tèr-it), n . A silicate of aluminium and sodium, corresponding in composition to an anhydrous natrolite. In physical characters it is allied to the feldspars. It occurs in granular form in elæolite-syenite in the island of Sigtero in the Langesundfiord, southern Norway.