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Tinged or mingled with blood; bloody; as, sanguinolent sputa.

Thin boards for shealting, as above the rafters, and under the shingles or slates, and for similar purposes.

a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate; hence, to cover, mingle, or dress, as if with sauce; to make an application to. [R.] Earth, yield me roots; Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate With thy most operant poison! Shak.

, to saw boards or planks, that is, to saw logs or timber into boards or planks; to saw shingles; to saw out a panel.

sues, etc.; -- called also natural science, and physical science. Voltaire hardly left a single corner of the field entirely unexplored in science, poetry, history, philosophy. J. Morley.

A single oar used at the stern in propelling a boat.

To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.

the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea.

of the Gourd family. It is soft, pear-shaped, and about four inches long, and contains a single large seed. The root of the plant resembles a yam, and is used for food.

though labored on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's, one single can its end produce, Yet serves to second too some other use. Pope.

A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. Called also sedan chair.

Being of a single color; -- applied to flowers, animals, and textile fabrics.

detached; partly distinct or separate. Semidetached house, one of two tenements under a single roof, but separated by a party wall. [Eng.]

Half proof; evidence from the testimony of a single witness. [Obs.] Bailey.

Separate; distinct; particular; single. Each several ship a victory did gain. Dryden. Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope.

Having vague outlines, and colors and shades so mingled as to give a misty appearance; -- said of a painting.

lorida commercial sponges (Spongia equina, variety gossypina). -- Sheep tick (Zoöl.), a wingless parasitic insect (Melophagus ovinus) belonging to the Diptera. It fixes its proboscis in the skin of the sheep and sucks the blood, leaving a swelling. Called also sheep pest, and sheep louse. -- Sheep walk, a pasture for…

The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.

A single signature of a book or a pamphlet; in pl., the book itself. To this the following sheets are intended for a full and distinct answer. Waterland.

A shingle; also, a slate for roofing. [Obs.] Holland.