GESTURE, Action, Behaviour, Gesticulation, Mimic, doth denote such an Animal action or motion as alters the situation of the whole or parts of the body: To which the word POSTURE, Position, may be annexed by way of affinity; signifying the situation in which such moti∣on is determined. The several kinds of these Gestures and Postures (which are applicable likewise to inanimate things) do refer either to the weights being incumbent upon something.

Below it: And these are distinguished according to the imaginary pro∣gress of that body or the parts of it,

Vpward; either more

• RISING, arise, raise, rouse, ly up, sit up, stand up, rear, elevate, lift up, erect, exalt, Resurrection
• STANDING, Station-ary, Footing, Perch, Rampant,

• Keeping the height, and
  • Inlarging the terms.
    • STRETCHING, retching, extending, Distention, Expansion, produce, sprein, strein, draw out.
    • SPREAD, square.
  • Narrowing the terms.
    • SHRINKING, contracting, Coar•tation, couch, gather up.
    • CRUMPLE, snudge.
• Altering the height, by motion of the
  • Trunk.
    • STOOPING, crouch, bow, bend, couring.
    • LEANING, lolling, Recumbency, stay or rest upon▪
  • Lower Limms.
    • Hipps.
      • SITTING, set, sedentary, seat
      • SATE, squat.
    • Knees.
      • KNEELING, Genuflexion, fall on knees.
      • ON KNEES.

Downward; either more

• FALLING, fell, cast down, sink.
• LYING, Prostration, groveling, lay, along, all along, flat, level, couch.

• TURNING.
• REVERSE, inverted.

Above it; whether partly: or wholly; each of which is either motion or rest.

• CLINGING.
• HANGING, pendent, suspended, dangling.