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beckon
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The Scarlet Letter

Now it was a herd of diabolic shapes, that grinned and mocked at the pale minister, and beckoned him away with them; now a group of shining angels, who flew upward heavily, as sorrow-laden, but grew more ethereal as they rose.
p. 134.7

beckoned = called (to come)

But the visionary little maid on her part, beckoned likewise, as if to say—"This is a better place; come thou into the pool."
p. 155.5 *

beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)

At first, as already told, she had flirted fancifully with her own image in a pool of water, beckoning the phantom forth, and—as it declined to venture—seeking a passage for herself into its sphere of impalpable earth and unattainable sky.
p. 164.2

beckoning = calling

As her mother still kept beckoning to her, and arraying her face in a holiday suit of unaccustomed smiles, the child stamped her foot with a yet more imperious look and gesture.
p. 195.5

beckoning = calling (to come)

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(1) (beckon)
to call -- typically to ask or tell someone to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod of the head
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

Much less commonly, beckon can be a gesture that points in a direction.