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A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.

Sparingless. [Obs.]

ch maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them. Shak.

concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation. Shak. [/Make] each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. Shak. Seken in every halk and every herne Particular sciences f…

A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.

A stiff thick kind of paper board, formed of several single sheets pasted one upon another, or of paper macerated and pressed into molds, etc.

A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.

A genus of wingless parasitic Hemiptera, including the common lice of man. See Louse.

The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion. Bacon. So spake the archangel Michael; then paused, As at the world's great period. Milton. Evils which shall never end till eternity hath a period. Jer. Taylor. This is the perio…

ce of the capsule of mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either single or double.

The act of mixing; the state of being mingled; mixture. [Written also permixtion.]

To mix; to mingle. [Obs.]

s, the perpetuity of laws. Bacon. A path to perpetuity of fame. Byron. The perpetuity of single emotion is insanity. I. Taylor.

ayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a prayer. A house of prayer and petition for thy people. 1 Macc. vii. 37. This last petition heard of all her prayer. Dryden.

A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors.

The dephasing of the two parts of a single alternating current in two dissimilar branches of a given circuit.

A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes. Hence, an emblem of immortality.

A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase. "Convey" the wise it call. "Steal!" foh! a fico for the phrase. Shak.

One of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves; a phytomer.

ceived of as apart from other things of the same kind; an individual article; a distinct single effort of a series; a definite performance; especially: