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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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SINGLET n.
An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet. [Prov. Eng.]
SINGLETON n.
In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton.
SINGLETREE n.
The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.
SINGLY adv. 5 definitions
Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good.
SINGSONG n. 4 definitions
Bad singing or poetry.
SINGSPIEL n.
A dramatic work, partly in dialogue and partly in song, of a kind popular in Germany in the latter part of the 18th century. It was often comic, had modern characters, and patterned its music on folk song with strictly subordinated accompaniment.
SINGSTER n.
A songstress. [Obs.] Wyclif.
SINGULAR a. 11 definitions
Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. [Obs.] Bacon. And God forbid that all a company Should rue a singular man's folly. Chaucer.
SINGULARIST n.
One who affects singularity. [Obs.] A clownish singularist, or nonconformist to ordinary usage. Borrow.
SINGULARITY n. 4 definitions
The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity. Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn. Sir. W. Raleigh. I took notice of this little figure f…
SINGULARIZE v.
To make singular or single; to distinguish. [R.]
SINGULARLY adv. 3 definitions
In a singular manner; in a manner, or to a degree, not common to others; extraordinarily; as, to be singularly exact in one's statements; singularly considerate of others. "Singularly handsome." Milman.
SINGULT n.
A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough. [Obs.] Spenser. W. Browne.
SINGULTOUS a.
Relating to, or affected with, hiccough. Dunglison.
SINGULTUS n.
Hiccough.
ACCUSINGLY adv.
In an accusing manner.
AMUSING a.
Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story. -- A*mus"ing*ly, adv.
BLESSING n. 5 definitions
avor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces. This is the blessing, where with Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel. Deut. xxxiii. 1.
BROWSING n.
Browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse. Browsings for the deer. Howell.
CARESSINGLY n.
In caressing manner.
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