Noun | 1. | signature - your name written in your own handwriting |
2. | signature - a distinguishing style; "this room needs a woman's touch" Synonyms: touch | |
3. | signature - a melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program Synonyms: signature tune, theme song | |
4. | signature - the sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key Synonyms: key signature | |
5. | signature - a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book |
SIGNATURE, eccl. law. The name of a sort of rescript, without seal, containing the supplication, the signature of the pope or his delegate, and the grant of a pardon Dict. Dr. Can. h.v.
SIGNATURE, pract. contr. By signature is understood the act of putting down
a man's name, at the end of an instrument, to attest its validity. The name
thus written is also called a signature.
2. It is not necessary that a party should write his name himself, to
constitute a signature; his mark is now held sufficient though he was able
to write. 8 Ad. & El. 94; 3 N. & Per. 228; 3 Curt. 752; 5 John. 144, A
signature made by a party, another person guiding his band with his consent,
is sufficient. 4 Wash. C. C. 262, 269. Vide to Sign.