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Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless. A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne.

t. 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…

rrow) to the string. God is all sufferance; here he doth show No arrow notched, only a stringless bow. Herrick.

bserving; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts.

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.

The state of being one; singleness in number; individuality; unity. Our God is one, or rather very oneness. Hooker.

One alone; single; as, the only man present; his only occupation.

A single farmhouse; a steading. [Prov.Eng. & Scot.] Grose. Jamieson.

balance or countervail; to set against; to offer antagonistically. I may . . . oppose my single opinion to his. Locke.

Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language. Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium. De Quincey.

is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a s…

gyia leucostigma) are often very injurious to fruit trees and shade trees. The female is wingless. Called also vaporer moth.

P A.P B is constant, the point P describes a Cassinian oval. The locus may consist of a single closed line, as shown by the dotted line, or of two equal ovals about the points A and B.

A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows.

by means of two projecting poles, -- used in India, China, etc., for the conveyance of a single person from place to place. [Written also palankeen.]