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5. To cry out; to complain. [Obs.]
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They should sing if thet they were bent. Chaucer.
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Sing (sĭng), v. t. 1. To utter with musical inflections or modulations of voice.
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And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb. Rev. xv. 3.
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And in the darkness sing your carol of high praise. Keble.
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2. To celebrate in song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry. Milton.
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Arms and the man I sing. Dryden.
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The last, the happiest British king,
Whom thou shalt paint or I shall sing. Addison.
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3. To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.
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4. To accompany, or attend on, with singing.
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I heard them singing home the bride. Longfellow.
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Singe (sĭnj), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Singed (sĭnjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Singeing (sĭnjĭng).] [OE. sengen, AS. sengan in besengan (akin to D. zengen, G. sengen), originally, to cause to sing, fr. AS. singan to sing, in allusion to the singing or hissing sound often produced when a substance is singed, or slightly burned. See .] 1. To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of; to burn the ends or outside of; as, to singe the hair or the skin.
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You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, . . .
Singe my white head! Shak.
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I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass. L'Estrange.
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2. (a) To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it. (b) To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame.
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Singe, n. A burning of the surface; a slight burn.
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Singer (sĭnjẽr), n. [From .] One who, or that which, singes. Specifically: (a) One employed to singe cloth. (b) A machine for singeing cloth.
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Singer (?), n. [From .] One who sings; especially, one whose profession is to sing.
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Singeress, n. A songstress. [Obs.] Wyclif.
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Singhalese (?), n. & a. [Skr. Si�hala Ceylon.] (Ethnol.) Same as .
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Singing (?), a. & n. from , v.
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Coloq. Singing bird . (Zoöl.) (a) Popularly, any bird that sings; a song bird. (b) Specifically, any one of the Oscines. -- Coloq. Singing book , a book containing music for singing; a book of tunes. -- Coloq. Singing falcon or Coloq. Singing hawk . (Zoöl.) See Chanting falcon, under . -- Coloq. Singing fish (Zoöl.), a California toadfish (Porichthys porosissimus), called also midshipman; -- so called because it produces a buzzing sound with its air bladder. -- Coloq. Singing flame (Acoustics), a flame, as of hydrogen or coal gas, burning within a tube and so adjusted as to set the air within the tube in vibration, causing sound. The apparatus is called also chemical harmonicon. -- Coloq. Singing master , a man who teaches vocal music. -- Coloq. Singing school , a school in which persons are instructed in singing.
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Singingly, adv. With sounds like singing; with a kind of tune; in a singing tone. G. North (1575).
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Single (?), a. [L. singulus, a dim. from the root in simplex simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See , and cf. .] 1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.
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No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest. Pope.
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2. Alone; having no companion.
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Who single hast maintained,
Against revolted multitudes, the cause
Of truth. Milton.
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3. Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman.
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Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. Shak.
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Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. Dryden.
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4. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.
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5. Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat.
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These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . .
Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight. Milton.
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6. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
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Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. I. Watts.
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7. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.
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I speak it with a single heart. Shak.
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8. Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.]
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He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. Beau. & Fl.
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Coloq. Single ale , Coloq. Single beer , or Coloq. Single drink , small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] Nares. -- Coloq. Single bill (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. Burril. -- Coloq. Single court (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for only two players. -- Coloq. Single-cut file . See the Note under 4th . -- Coloq. Single entry . See under . -- Coloq. Single file . See under 1st . -- Coloq. Single flower (Bot.), a flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose. -- Coloq. Single knot . See Illust. under . -- Coloq. Single whip (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block.
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Single, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Singled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Singling (?).] 1. To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate.
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Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark. Bacon.
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His blood! she faintly screamed her mind
Still singling one from all mankind. More.
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2. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. [Obs.]
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An agent singling itself from consorts. Hooker.
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3. To take alone, or one by one.
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Men . . . commendable when they are singled. Hooker.
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Single, v. i. To take the irrregular gait called single-foot; -- said of a horse. See .
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Many very fleet horses, when overdriven, adopt a disagreeable gait, which seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite, simultaneously. Such horses are said to single, or to be single-footed. W. S. Clark.
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Single, n. 1. A unit; one; as, to score a single.
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2. pl. The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
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3. A handful of gleaned grain. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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4. (Law Tennis) A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural.
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5. (Baseball) A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.
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Single-acting (?), a. Having simplicity of action; especially (Mach.), acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
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Single-breasted (?), a. Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
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Single-foot (?), n. An irregular gait of a horse; -- called also single-footed pace. See , v. i.
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Single-foot is an irregular pace, rather rare, distinguished by the posterior extremities moving in the order of a fast walk, and the anterior extremities in that of a slow trot. Stillman (The Horse in Motion.)
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Single-foot, v. i. To proceed by means of the single-foot, as a horse or other quadruped. -- Single-footer, n.
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single-handed (?), a. Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
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single-handedly (?), adv. By oneself; alone; unassisted.
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Single-hearted (?), a. Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- Single-heartedly, adv.
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single-minded (?), a. Having a single purpose; concentrating on a single goal; hence, artless; guileless; single-hearted.
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single-mindedness (?), n. The quality of being single-minded.
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Singleness, n. 1. The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity.
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2. Freedom from duplicity, or secondary and selfish ends; purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity; as, singleness of purpose; singleness of heart.
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singles (?), n. pl. See , n., 2.
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singles (?), a. For unmarried persons, or catering especially to unmarried persons; as, a singles bar; a singles party.
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Singlestick (?), n. (a) In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword. (b) The game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling.
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Single-surfaced (?), a. Having one surface; -- said specif. of aëroplanes or aërocurves that are covered with fabric, etc., on only one side.
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Singlet (?), n. An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet. [Prov. Eng.]
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Single tax. (Pol. Econ.) A tax levied upon land alone, irrespective of improvements, -- advocated by certain economists as the sole source of public revenue.

Whatever may be thought of Henry George's single-tax theory as a whole, there can be little question that a relatively higher assessment of ground rent, with corresponding relief for those who have made improvements, is a much-needed reform. A. T. Hadley.
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Singleton (?), n. 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.
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Singletree (?), n. [Cf. .] The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.
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☞ When two horses draw abreast, a singletree is fixed at each end of another crosspiece, called the doubletree.
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Singly (?), adv. 1. Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good.
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2. Only; by one's self; alone.
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Look thee, 't is so! Thou singly honest man. Shak.
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3. Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack another singly.
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At omber singly to decide their doom. Pope.
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4. Honestly; sincerely; simply. [R.] Johnson.
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5. Singularly; peculiarly. [Obs.] Milton.
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Sing-sing (?), n. (Zoöl.) The kob.
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Singsong (?), n. 1. Bad singing or poetry.
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2. A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song.
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Singsong, a. Drawling; monotonous; having a monotonous cadence.
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Singsong, v. i. To write poor poetry. [R.] Tennyson.
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Singspiel (?), n. [G.; singen to sing + spiel to play.] (Music) A dramatic work, partly in dialogue and partly in song, of a kind popular in Germany in the latter part of the 18th century. It was often comic, had modern characters, and patterned its music on folk song with strictly subordinated accompaniment.
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Singster (?), n. A songstress. [Obs.] Wyclif.
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Singular (sĭṉg�lẽr), a. [OE. singuler, F. singulier, fr. L. singularius, singularis, fr. singulus single. See , a.] 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. [Obs.] Bacon.
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And God forbid that all a company
Should rue a singular man's folly. Chaucer.
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2. Engaged in by only one on a side; single. [Obs.]
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To try the matter thus together in a singular combat. Holinshed.
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3. (Logic) Existing by itself; single; individual.
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The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts.
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4. (Law) Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular.
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5. (Gram.) Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; -- opposed to dual and plural.
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6. Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon.
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So singular a sadness
Must have a cause as strange as the effect. Denham.
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7. Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments.
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8. Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; -- often implying disapproval or censure.
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His zeal
None seconded, as out of season judged,
Or singular and rash. Milton.
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To be singular in anything that is wise and worthy, is not a disparagement, but a praise. Tillotson.
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9. Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique.
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These busts of the emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them almost singular in their kind. Addison.
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Coloq. Singular point in a curve (Math.), a point at which the curve possesses some peculiar properties not possessed by other points of the curve, as a cusp point, or a multiple point. -- Coloq. Singular proposition (Logic), a proposition having as its subject a singular term, or a common term limited to an individual by means of a singular sign. Whately. -- Coloq. Singular succession (Civil Law), division among individual successors, as distinguished from universal succession, by which an estate descended in intestacy to the heirs in mass. -- Coloq. Singular term (Logic), a term which represents or stands for a single individual.
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Syn. -- Unexampled; unprecedented; eminent; extraordinary; remarkable; uncommon; rare; unusual; peculiar; strange; odd; eccentric; fantastic.
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Singular, n. 1. An individual instance; a particular. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
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2. (Gram) The singular number, or the number denoting one person or thing; a word in the singular number.
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Singularist (sĭṉg�lẽrĭst), n. One who affects singularity. [Obs.]
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A clownish singularist, or nonconformist to ordinary usage. Borrow.
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Singularity (sĭṉg�lărĭt�), n.; pl. Singularities (sĭṉg�lărĭtĭz). [L. singularitas: cf. F. singularité.] 1. The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity.
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Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn. Sir. W. Raleigh.
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I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument. Addison.
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2. Anything singular, rare, or curious.
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Your gallery
Have we passed through, not without much content
In many singularities. Shak.
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3. Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction.
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No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity [universal bishop]. Hooker.
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Catholicism . . . must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation. Bp. Pearson.
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4. Celibacy. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
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Singularize (sĭṉg�lẽrīz), v. t. To make singular or single; to distinguish. [R.]
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Singularly, adv. 1. In a singular manner; in a manner, or to a degree, not common to others; extraordinarily; as, to be singularly exact in one's statements; singularly considerate of others. “Singularly handsome.” Milman.
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2. Strangely; oddly; as, to behave singularly.
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3. So as to express one, or the singular number.
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Singult (?), n.[L. singultus.] A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough. [Obs.] Spenser. W. Browne.
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Singultous (?), a. (Med.) Relating to, or affected with, hiccough. Dunglison.
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Singultus (?), n. [L.] (Med.) Hiccough.
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Sinic (sĭnĭk), a. [See .] (Ethnol.) Of or pertaining to the Chinese and allied races; Chinese.
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Sinical (?), a. [From .] (Trig.) Of or pertaining to a sine; employing, or founded upon, sines; as, a sinical quadrant.
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Sinicism (sĭnĭsĭz'm), n. (Ethnol.) Anything peculiar to the Chinese; esp., a Chinese peculiarity in manners or customs.
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Sinigrin (?), n. [From NL. Sinapis nigra.] (Chem.) A glucoside found in the seeds of black mustard (Brassica nigra, formerly Sinapis nigra) It resembles sinalbin, and consists of a potassium salt of myronic acid.
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Sinister (sĭnĭstẽr; 277), a. [Accented on the middle syllable by the older poets, as Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden.] [L. sinister: cf. F. sinistre.] 1. On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right. “Here on his sinister cheek.” Shak.
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My mother's blood
Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister
Bounds in my father's Shak.
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☞ In heraldy the sinister side of an escutcheon is the side which would be on the left of the bearer of the shield, and opposite the right hand of the beholder.
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2. Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.
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All the several ills that visit earth,
Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth. B. Jonson.
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3. Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.
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Nimble and sinister tricks and shifts. Bacon.
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He scorns to undermine another's interest by any sinister or inferior arts. South.
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He read in their looks . . . sinister intentions directed particularly toward himself. Sir W. Scott.
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4. Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance.
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Coloq. Bar sinister . (Her.) See under , n. -- Coloq. Sinister aspect (Astrol.), an appearance of two planets happening according to the succession of the signs, as Saturn in Aries, and Mars in the same degree of Gemini. -- Coloq. Sinister base , Coloq. Sinister chief . See under .
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Sinister-handed (?), a. Left-handed; hence, unlucky. [Obs.] Lovelace.
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Sinisterly, adv. In a sinister manner. Wood.
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Sinistrad (?), adv. [L. sinistra the left hand + ad to.] (Anat. & Zoöl.) Toward the left side; sinistrally.
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Sinistral (?), a. 1. Of or pertaining to the left, inclining to the left; sinistrous; -- opposed to dextral.
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2. (Zoöl.) Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed; -- said of certain spiral shells.
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Sinistrality (?), n. The quality or state of being sinistral.
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Sinistrally (?), adv. Toward the left; in a sinistral manner. J. Le Conte.
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Sinistrin (sĭnĭstrĭn), n. [L. sinister left.] (Chem.) A mucilaginous carbohydrate, resembling achroödextrin, extracted from squill as a colorless amorphous substance; -- so called because it is levorotatory.
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Sinistrorsal (?), a. [L. sinistrorsus, sinistroversus, turned toward the left side; sinister left + vertere, vortere, versum, vorsum, to turn.] Rising spirally from right to left (of the spectator); sinistrorse.
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Sinistrorse (?), a. [See .] Turning to the left (of the spectator) in the ascending line; -- the opposite of dextrorse. See .
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Sinistrous (?), a. [See .] 1. Being on the left side; inclined to the left; sinistral. “Sinistrous gravity.” Sir T. Browne.
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