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Having one surface; -- said specif. of aëroplanes or aërocurves that are covered with fabric, etc., on only one side.

The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity.

See Single, n., 2.

The game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling.

An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet. [Prov. Eng.]

In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton.

The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.

A springe. [Prov. Eng.]

A little spring. But yet from out the little hill Oozes the slender springlet still. Sir W. Scott.

Having no sting.

Having no strings. His tongue is now a stringless instrument. Shak.

A belt, band, or girth which passes over a saddle, or over anything laid on a horse's back, to bind it fast.

Bound with the surcingle.

To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch.

A swingletree. De Quincey.

The thrasher, or fox shark. See Thrasher.

A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree.

as in hearing a shrill sound. At which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. 1 Sam. iii. 11.

A curtain rod for a bedstead.

To separate, as things mixed. Bacon.