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Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing. Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge. It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18.

o shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued. I. Taylor. The words are of single signification, without any ambiguity. South.

uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.

ternational rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern and one forward.

The union of two or more separate bones to from a single bone; the close union of bones or other structures in various animals.

etached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

A group of herbivorous mammals characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc.

The record of a single event or item. "In deathless annal." Young.

A notion which has no name, or which can not be expressed by a single English word. [R.] J. R. Seeley.

e men belonged exclusively to the mechanical and shopkeeping classes, and there was not a single banker or anybody in the list. Lond. Sat. Rev.

Each by itself; by the single one; to each; as the share of each; as, these melons cost a shilling apiece. "Fined . . . a thousand pounds apiece." Hume.

ames of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.

iades (21 k and 22 l Pleiadum, of the 5.8 and 6.4 magnitude respectively), appearing as a single star of the 5.3 magnitude to the naked eye.

r of a lens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thus causing imperfect images or indistictness of vision.

ble contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day.

Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.

Odd; having no fellow; not one of a pair; single; as, the azygous muscle of the uvula.

handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick. Halliwell.

he top of a parapet, and not through embrasures. -- Barbette gun, or Barbette battery, a single gun, or a number of guns, mounted in barbette, or partially protected by a parapet or turret. -- Barbette carriage, a gun carriage which elevates guns sufficiently to be in barbette. [See Illust. of Casemate.]…

ground floor, collectively. Basement membrane (Anat.), a delicate membrane composed of a single layer of flat cells, forming the substratum upon which, in many organs, the epithelioid cells are disposed.