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.), a fracture in which there is an open wound from the surface down to the fracture. -- Simple fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the bone only is ruptured. It does not communicate with the surface by an open wound.

A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold. Burrill.

An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held. Kent. Burrill. To abate into a freehold. See under Abate.

Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves.

A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.

the seventh letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It has two sounds; one simple, as in gave, go, gull; the other compound (like that of j), as in gem, gin, dingy. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 231-6, 155, 176, 178, 179, 196, 211, 246.

A simpleton; a dunce; a lout. [Colloq.]

The simplest stitch in knitting.

A simpleton; a booby; a gawky. Carlyle.

A small South American deer (Furcifer Chilensis), with simple forked horns. [Written also guemul.]

is divided into nobility, gentry, and yeomanry, and families are either noble, gentle, or simple. Johnson's Cyc. The studies wherein our noble and gentle youth ought to bestow their time. Milton.

ving three dimensions. -- Elementary geometry, that part of geometry which treats of the simple properties of straight lines, circles, plane surface, solids bounded by plane surfaces, the sphere, the cylinder, and the right cone. -- Higher geometry, that pert of geometry which treats of those properties of straight l…

f the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is "no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding." The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass.…

A reproductive bud of a hydroid; a simple gonophore.

A silly creature; a simpleton.

A simpleton; a gawk or gawky.

this movement. M. Arnold. The gradualness of growth is a characteristic which strikes the simplest observer. H. Drummond.

An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.

In Sanskrit grammar, a lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, e, by prefixing an a element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages.

An order of sponges, having simple siliceous spicules and keratose fibers; -- called also Keratosilicoidea.