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A metrical composition consisting of a single strophe.

A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony. [R.]

Having a single loculament.

Uniparous; laying a single egg.

Having a distinct cleavage in a single direction only.

A single unvaried tone or sound.

A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanets.

usually on a common bedplate and with the two shafts directly coupled or combined into a single shaft.

Having more than one axis; developing in more than a single line or plain; -- opposed to Ant: monoaxial.

ol.), growth, or development, from several centers. According as the insubordination to a single center is more or less pronounced, the resultant organism will be more or less irregular in form and may even discontinuous.

cence of many cells (as where an indefinite number of amoeboid cells flow together into a single mass) from which conjugation proper and even fertilization may have been evolved. -- Multiple fruits. (Bot.) See Collective fruit, under Collective. -- Multiple star (Astron.), several stars in close proximity, which appe…

, done; but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same sound as the digraph ng in sing, bring, etc. This is a simple but related sound, and is called the gutturo-nasal consonent. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 243-246. The letter…

agencies which carry on the processes of creation or of being; -- often conceived of as a single and separate entity, embodying the total of all finite agencies and forces as disconnected from a creating or ordering intelligence. I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportions. Milton.…

it. Instead of returning a full answer to my book, he manifestly falls a- nibbling at one single passage. Tillotson.

The one or single occasion; the present call or purpose; -- chiefly used in the phrase for the nonce. The miller was a stout carl for the nones. Chaucer. And that he calls for drink, I 'll have prepared him A chalice for the nonce. Shak. Nonce word, "a word apparently employed only for the nonce". Murray (New English D…

Not paired with another, or remaining over after a pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd shoe; an odd glove.

One of the single eyes forming the compound eyes of crustaceans, insects, and other invertebrates.

Being a single unit, or entire being or thing, and no more; not multifold; single; individual. The dream of Pharaoh is one. Gen. xli. 25. O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England. Shak.

Drawn by one horse; having but a single horse; as, a one-horse carriage.

The state of being one or single. [Obs.] Cudworth.