n.
v. t.
Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
His blood! she faintly screamed her mind
Still singling one from all mankind. More. [ 1913 Webster ]
An agent singling itself from consorts. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]
Men . . . commendable when they are singled. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To take the irrregular gait called single-foot; -- said of a horse. See Single-foot. [ 1913 Webster ]
Many very fleet horses, when overdriven, adopt a disagreeable gait, which seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite, simultaneously. Such horses are said to single, or to be single-footed. W. S. Clark. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. singulus, a dim. from the root in simplex simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See Simple, and cf. Singular. ]
No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
Who single hast maintained,
Against revolted multitudes, the cause
Of truth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . .
Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]
I speak it with a single heart. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]
Single ale,
Single beer,
Single drink
Single bill (Law),
Single court (Lawn Tennis),
Single-cut file.
Single entry.
Single file.
Single flower (Bot.),
Single knot.
Single whip (Naut.),
a. Having simplicity of action; especially (Mach.), acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only;
n. An irregular gait of a horse; -- called also
Single-foot is an irregular pace, rather rare, distinguished by the posterior extremities moving in the order of a fast walk, and the anterior extremities in that of a slow trot. Stillman (The Horse in Motion.) [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To proceed by means of the single-foot, as a horse or other quadruped. --
a. Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. By oneself; alone; unassisted. [ PJC ]
a. Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. --
a. Having a single purpose; concentrating on a single goal; hence, artless; guileless; single-hearted. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being single-minded. [ PJC ]
n.
n. pl. See Single, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. For unmarried persons, or catering especially to unmarried persons;
n.
a. Having one surface; -- said specif. of aeroplanes or aerocurves that are covered with fabric, etc., on only one side. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to
. (Pol. Econ.) A tax levied upon land alone, irrespective of improvements, -- advocated by certain economists as the sole source of public revenue.
Whatever may be thought of Henry George's single-tax theory as a whole, there can be little question that a relatively higher assessment of ground rent, with corresponding relief for those who have made improvements, is a much-needed reform. A. T. Hadley. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player;
n. [ Cf. Swingletree. ] The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ When two horses draw abreast, a singletree is fixed at each end of another crosspiece, called the doubletree. [ 1913 Webster ]