Signify

sig'm-n, v.t. to make known by a sign or bywords: to mean to indicate or declare to have consequence -/**./. and pa./, sig'- nifred. [L. sign/jico, -at us—signunt, andfacto, to make. sign! or, Signor, sCn'yur, n. an Italian word of f4te, fir mi, hdr mine gfitre* addre equivalent to Sir, Mr. [It signori. See Seignior.] Sign-matttUti, sln-man'ft-al, n, {lit.) a sign made by one’s own kajid: the royal signature, usually only the initial of the sovereign’s name, with R. for Rex (L- ‘kino’), or Regina (L. ‘queen'}, [Sign and Manual]