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A halfround single-cut file or fioat, having one curved face and one straight face, -- used by comb makers. Knight.

A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food.

leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.

A ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope; also, a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag. Sometimes written grummet.

Literally, this-ness. A scholastic term to express individuality or singleness; as, this book.

A genus of leguminous plants containing but a single species, the H. Campechianum or logwood tree, native in Yucatan.

lutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.

A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail.

or support; to depend; to cling; -- usually with on or upon; as, this question hangs on a single point. "Two infants hanging on her neck." Peacham.

elating to the accessory sounds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous body.

A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.

o man deputed of the king to hear thee. 2 Sam. xv. 3. I beseech your honor to hear me one single word. Shak.

Of a single and sincere heart. If he keeps heart-whole towards his Master. Bunyan.

A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats.

lour from grain by several successive grindings and intermediate sorting, instead of by a single grinding. -- High noon, the time when the sun is in the meridian. -- High place (Script.), an eminence or mound on which sacrifices were offered. -- High priest. See in the Vocabulary. -- High relief. (Fine Arts) See Al…

A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill of corn or potatoes. [U. S.] Hill ant (Zoöl.), a common ant (Formica rufa), of Europe and America, which makes mounds or ant-hills over its nests. -- Hill myna (Zoöl.), one of several species of birds of I…

To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point. To hit off, to describe with quick characteristic strokes; as, to hit off a speaker. Sir W. Temple. -- To hit out, to perform by good luck. [Obs.] Spenser.

Having a single series of large scutes on the posterior side of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.

Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, -- as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.

Employing a single and separate character to represent each sound; -- said of certain methods of spelling words.