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Having or manifesting an exaggerated idea of one's own importance or merit.

Voluntarily taken on one's self; as, self-imposed tasks.

Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit. South.

ll crustacean, including some amphipods and even certain entomostracans; as, the fairy shrimp, and brine shrimp. See under Fairy, and Brine.

One who fishes for shrimps.

A long-tailed monkey (Semnopitchecus melalophus) native of Sumatra. It has a crest of black hair. The forehead and cheeks are fawn color, the upper parts tawny and red, the under parts white. Called also black-crested monkey, and sinpæ.

To smile in a silly, affected, or conceited manner. Behold yond simpering dame. Shak. With a made countenance about her mouth, between simpering and smiling. ir. P. Sidney.

One who simpers. Sir W. Scott. A simperer that a court affords. T. Nevile.

from Simper, v.

In a simpering manner.

led; uncombined; not compounded; 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.

Sincere; inguenuous; guileless. Sir W. Scott.

Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity. Blackstone. -- Sim"ple-mind`ed*ness, n.

The quality or state of being simple; simplicity. Shak.

One who collects simples, or medicinal plants; a herbalist; a simplist. Simpler's joy. (Bot.) Vervain.

Simplicity; silliness. [Obs.] Spenser.

A person of weak intellect; a silly person.

One who is simple. [Obs.] Arnway.

The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths.

The act of simplifying. A. Smith.