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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Single \Sin"gle\, a. [L. singulus a dim. from the root in simplex simple; cf OE & OF sengle, fr L. singulus See {Simple}, and cf {Singular}.] 1. One only, as distinguished from more than one consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as a single star. No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest. --Pope. 2. Alone; having no companion. Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth. --Milton. 3. Hence unmarried; as a single man or woman. Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. --Shak. Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. --Dryden. 4. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others as a single thread; a single strand of a rope. 5. Performed by one person, or one on each side as a single combat. These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight. --Milton. 6. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. --I. Watts. 7. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere. I speak it with a single heart. --Shak. 8. Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.] He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. --Beau. & Fl {Single ale}, {beer}, or {drink}, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] --Nares. {Single bill} (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. --Burril. {Single court} (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for only two players. {Single-cut file}. See the Note under 4th {File}. {Single entry}. See under {Bookkeeping}. {Single file}. See under 1st {File}. {Single flower} (Bot.), a flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose. {Single knot}. See Illust. under {Knot}. {Single whip} (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Beer \Beer\, n. [OE. beor, ber, AS be['o]r; akin to Fries. biar, Icel. bj?rr, OHG. bior, D. & G. bier, and possibly E. brew. [root]93, See {Brew}.] 1. A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor. Note: Beer has different names as {small beer}, {ale}, {porter}, {brown stout}, {lager beer}, according to its strength, or other qualities. See {Ale}. 2. A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc {Small beer}, weak beer; (fig.) insignificant matters. ``To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.'' --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: beer n : fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and hops [syn: {suds}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Beer well (1.) A place where a well was dug by the direction of Moses, at the forty-fourth station of the Hebrews in their wanderings (Num. 21:16-18) in the wilderness of Moab. (See {WELL}.) (2.) A town in the tribe of Judah to which Jotham fled for fear of Abimelech (Judg. 9:21). Some have identified this place with Beeroth. From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Beer, a well
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