Signify

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun To Mean; to Import; to Denote; to Betoken.

II. Signify ·noun To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to Announce; to make known; to Declare; to Express; as, a signified his desire to be present.

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  • the crack, or all the crack. the fashionable theme, the go. the crack lay, of late is used, in the cant language, to signify the art and mystery of house-breaking.

    Crust, sea biscuit, or ammunition loaf; also the backside. Farting crackers; breeches. ...

    Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose