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Having no wings; not able to ascend or fly. Wingless bird (Zoöl.), the apteryx.

A little wing; a very small wing.

ional aberrations of intellect." Lingard. Whims, which at first are the aberrations of a single brain, pass with heat into epidemic form. I. Taylor.

A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.

A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. [Written also akene and achænium.]

e or make ready. [Obs.] His foe was soon addressed. Spenser. Turnus addressed his men to single fight. Dryden. The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming. Jer. Taylor.

Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.

To mingle with something else; to mix. [R.]

A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria.

exhaust from a condenser the condensed steam, the water used for condensing, and any commingled air.

Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing. Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge. It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18.

shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued. I. Taylor. The words are of single signification, without any ambiguity. South.

Mixed or mingled; surrounded by. They heard, And from his presence hid themselves among The thickest trees. Milton.

ncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.

se verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless. [Written also amphigouri.]

ernational rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern and one forward.

The union of two or more separate bones to from a single bone; the close union of bones or other structures in various animals.

tached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

A group of herbivorous mammals characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc.

The record of a single event or item. "In deathless annal." Young.