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Commotion. [Obs.] Chapman.

Digestion. [Obs.] Harvey.

Divestiture. [Obs.]

position of the body or limbs; posture. [Obs.] Accubation, or lying down at meals, was a gesture used by many nations. Sir T. Browne.

Free from gestures.

Act of making gestures; gesturing. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To clothe; to invest; to install. [Obs.] "Monks . . . investured in their copes." Fuller.

See Purpresture.

should be common or public, as highways, rivers, harbors, forts, etc. [Written also pourpresture.]

ess; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope. Piers Plowman. Approach, and kiss her sacred vesture's hem. Milton. Rocks, precipices, and gulfs, appareled with a vesture of plants. Bentley. There polished chests embroidered vestures graced. Pope.

Covered with vesture or garments; clothed; enveloped. We be vestured with poor cloth. Ld. Berners.

culation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings.

External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array. Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young. Denham. At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity. Tatler.

th to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind. Pharaoh . . . arrayed him in vestures of fine linen. Gen. xli. In gelid caves with horrid gloom arrayed. Trumbull.

A deceptive gesture of the pitcher, as if to deliver the ball. Balk line (Billiards), a line across a billiard table near one end, marking a limit within which the cue balls are placed in beginning a game; also, a line around the table, parallel to the sides, used in playing a particular game, called the balk line game…

A man who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew.

Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures. Blair.

A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.

motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint. The cast of the eye is a gesture of aversion. Bacon. And let you see with one cast of an eye. Addison. This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eye. Hawthorne.

ity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses. A constant habit, rather than a casual gesture. Hawthorne.