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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Single \Sin"gle\, v. i. To take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of a horse. See {Single-foot}. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Single \Sin"gle\, n. 1. A unit; one as to score a single. 2. pl The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness. 3. A handful of gleaned grain. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 4. (Law Tennis) A game with but one player on each side -- usually in the plural. 5. (Baseball) A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Single \Sin"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Singled}; p. pr & vb n. {Singling}.] 1. To select, as an individual person or thing from among a number; to choose out from others to separate. Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark. --Bacon. His blood! she faintly screamed her mind Still singling one from all mankind. --More. 2. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. [Obs.] An agent singling itself from consorts. --Hooker. 3. To take alone, or one by one Men . . . commendable when they are singled. --Hooker. 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: single adj 1: existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual; "upon the hill stood a single tower"; "had but a single thought which was to escape"; "a single survivor"; "a single serving"; "a single lens"; "a single thickness" [syn: {single(a)}] [ant: {multiple}] 2: (botany; of flowers) having usually only one row or whorl of petals; "single chrysanthemums resemble daisies and may have more than one row of petals" [ant: {double}] 3: not married or related to the unmarried state" "unmarried men and women"; "unmarried life"; "sex and the single girl"; "single parenthood"; "are you married or single?" [syn: {unmarried}] [ant: {married}] 4: characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing "an individual serving"; "separate rooms"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed" [syn: {individual}, {separate}, {single(a)}] 5: having uniform application; "a single legal code for all" [syn: {single(a)}] 6: not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective; "judging a contest with a single eye"; "a single devotion to duty"; "undivided affection"; "gained their exclusive attention" [syn: {single(a)}, {undivided}, {exclusive}] 7: involved two individuals; "single combat" [syn: {single(a)}] 8: individual and distinct; "pegged down each separate branch to the earth"; "a gift for every single child" [syn: {separate}, {single(a)}] n 1: a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base 2: the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number; "he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"; "they had lunch at one" [syn: {one}, {1}, {I}, {ace}, {unity}] v : hit a one-base hit, in baseball
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