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A notion which has no name, or which can not be expressed by a single English word. [R.] J. R. Seeley.

men belonged exclusively to the mechanical and shopkeeping classes, and there was not a single banker or anybody in the list. Lond. Sat. Rev.

A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type. See Flea.

Each by itself; by the single one; to each; as the share of each; as, these melons cost a shilling apiece. "Fined . . . a thousand pounds apiece." Hume.

mes of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.

ades (21 k and 22 l Pleiadum, of the 5.8 and 6.4 magnitude respectively), appearing as a single star of the 5.3 magnitude to the naked eye.

of a lens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thus causing imperfect images or indistictness of vision.

The act or process of separating mingled gases of unequal diffusibility by transmission through porous substances.

le contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day.

Of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority. "Forms august." Pope. "August in visage." Dryden. "To shed that august blood." Macaulay. So beautiful and so august a spectacle. Burke. To min…

Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.

Dread; great fear mingled with respect. [Obs. or Obsolescent] His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe. Cowper.

Odd; having no fellow; not one of a pair; single; as, the azygous muscle of the uvula.

andle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick. Halliwell.

e top of a parapet, and not through embrasures. -- Barbette gun, or Barbette battery, a single gun, or a number of guns, mounted in barbette, or partially protected by a parapet or turret. -- Barbette carriage, a gun carriage which elevates guns sufficiently to be in barbette. [See Illust. of Casemate.]…

That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

ground floor, collectively. Basement membrane (Anat.), a delicate membrane composed of a single layer of flat cells, forming the substratum upon which, in many organs, the epithelioid cells are disposed.

basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females.

ommon bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire. Bat tick (Zoöl.), a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus Nycteribia, parasitic on bats.

A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager.