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A simpleton. [Obs.]

A simpleton; a fool. L'Estrange.

Having a separate and simple tendon to flex the first toe, or hallux, as do passerine birds.

A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny. [Low] The chuckling grin of noodles. Sydney Smith.

A simpleton; a fool. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

la. To be, or lie, in a nutshell, to be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement. "The remedy lay in a nutshell." Macaulay.

Any Australian bat of the genus Nyctophilus, having a very simple nasal appendage.

f's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins; hence, a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an idiot.

Like an oaf; simple. -- Oaf"ish*ness, n.

A prefix signifying to, toward, before, against, reversely, etc.; also, as a simple intensive; as in oblige, to bind to; obstacle, something standing before; object, lit., to throw against; obovate, reversely, ovate. Ob- is commonly assimilated before c, f, g, and p, to oc-, of-, og-, and op-.

A kind of small simple wind instrument.

xiety. South. If we inquire what it is that occasions men to make several combinations of simple ideas into distinct modes. Locke.

A little eye; a minute simple eye found in many invertebrates.

ter. (b) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the pink- flowered periwinkle (Vinca rosea). (c) A simple game of cards, played by matching them. The person with whom the odd card is left is the old maid. -- Old man's beard. (Bot.) (a) The traveler's joy (Clematis Vitalba). So named from the abundant long feathery awns of its…

A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary. In ordinary. (a) In actual and constant service; statedly atte…

the performance of the functions necessary to life. The cell may be regarded as the most simple, the most common, and the earliest form of organization. McKendrick.

An auditory cyst or vesicle; one of the simple auditory organs of many invertebrates, containing a fluid and otoliths; also, the embryonic vesicle from which the parts of the internal ear of vertebrates are developed.

truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoölogy, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.

midal form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below and gradually simpler toward the end.

arol contract (Law), any contract not of record or under seal, whether oral or written; a simple contract. Chitty. Story.