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   Single , a. [L. singulus, a dim. from the root in simplex simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See Simple, and cf. Singular.]
   One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.
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   No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest.
   Pope.
   
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   Alone; having no companion.
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   Who single hast maintained,
   Against revolted multitudes, the cause
   Of truth.
   Milton.
   
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   Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman.
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   Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
   Shak.
   
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   Single chose to live, and shunned to wed.
   Dryden.
   
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   Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.
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   Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat.
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   These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . 
   Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight.
   Milton.
   
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   Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
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   Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound.
   I. Watts.
   
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   Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.
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   I speak it with a single heart.
   Shak.
   
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   Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.]
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   He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice.
   Beau. & Fl.
   
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   Single ale, Single beer, or Single 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.
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   Single, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Singled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Singling .]
   To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate.
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   Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark.
   Bacon.
   
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   His blood! she faintly screamed her mind
   Still singling one from all mankind.
   More.
   
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   To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. [Obs.]
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   An agent singling itself from consorts.
   Hooker.
   
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   To take alone, or one by one.
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   Men . . . commendable when they are singled.
   Hooker.
   
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   Single, v. i. To take the irrregular gait called single-foot; -- said of a horse. See Single-foot.
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   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.
   
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   Single, n.
   A unit; one; as, to score a single.
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   pl. The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
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   A handful of gleaned grain. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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   (Law Tennis) A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural.
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   (Baseball) A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.
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