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Belonging to, or affecting, a single organ, or set of organs.

Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as the flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridæ.

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.

Wine boiled and mingled with honey.

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

l.), 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.

ence 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 appea…

rity; insubordination. In every mutiny against the discipline of the college, he was the ringleader. Macaulay.

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 N…

To mingle, saturate, or impregnate, with naphtha.

gencies 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.…

Imbued with nectar; mingled with nectar; abounding with nectar. Milton.

To mingle or infuse with nectar; to sweeten. [Obs.] Cockeram.