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unded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks.

Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. I. Watts.

Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts.

Pertaining to the Sipunculoidea. -- n.

To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.

f the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state. "A man that waketh of his sleep." Chaucer. O sleep, thou ape of death. Shak.

A myth which essentially consists of allegory based upon ideas as to the sun's course, motion, influence, or the like.

ds and retaining his power, committed a dangerous solecism in politics. C. Middleton. The idea of having committed the slightest solecism in politeness was agony to him. Sir W. Scott.

n of arachnids having large, powerful fangs and a segmented abdomen; -- called also Solpugidea, and Solpugides.

One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere. -- So*mit`ic, a.

ts cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause. This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself. Locke. The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense. Pope.

Of or pertaining to the Spatangoidea. -- n.

A genus of heart-shaped sea urchins belonging to the Spatangoidea.

To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will. Thine eye begins to speak. Shak. To speak of, to take account of, to make mention of. Robynson (More's Utopia). -- To speak out, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to speak unreservedly. -- To speak well for, to…

culty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent. Dryden.

Involving, or formed by, speculation; ideal; theoretical; not established by demonstration. Cudworth.

he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation.

ght ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it.

Any element of the skeleton in relation with the alimentary canal, as the jaws and hyoidean apparatus. -- Splanch`nap`o*phys"i*al, a. Mivart.

Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. Called also sea st…