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Show SI Abhow'd all womankind, but moft a wife glafs, and he never would endure it after. L‘J'.fi,"Thus riding on his curls, he feem'd to paf One tha SI'NGER. 7 /. [ from fing. fings; one whofe profeflion or bufinefs i to fing His filching was like an unfkilful figer, he kep Shakefpeare's Merry Wives of Windfor I gat me men fingers and women fingers, and th Eccl. 11, 8 delights of the fons of men To the chief frnger on my ftringed inftruments Hab iii Cockbirds amongft finging birds are ever th better fingers, becaufe they are more lively. Bacor's Natural Hiffory Thy heart no ruder than the rugged ftone I might, like Orpheus, with my num'rous moa Melt to compaflion: now my trait'rous fon ‘With thee confpires to do the fuger wrong. Waller The birds know how to chufe their fare To peck this fruit they all forbear Thofe cheerful fingers know not wh They fhould make any hafte to die Waller The Grecian tragedy was at firft nothing but Dryden chorus of fingers SI'NGINGMASTER. 2. /. [ fing and mafter. " One who teaches to fing He employed an itinerant fngingmaffer to inftrué them rightly in the tunes of the Pfalms Addifon's Spectator SI'NGLE. adj. [ fingulus, Latin. I. One ; not double ; not more than one The words are clear and eafy, and their originals are of fingle fignification without any ambiguity South Some were fingle alkts, though each complete Butev'ry a@ ftood ready to repeat Dryden The Thefeus join'd with bold Pirithous came A fingle concord in a double name Dryden High Alba A lonely defart, and an empty lapd Shall fcarce afford, for needful Hours of reft A fingle houfe to their benighted gueft Addifsn on Italy ‘Where the poefy or oratory thines, a fingle read ing is not fufficient to fatisfy a mind that has true tafte ; nor can we make the fulleft improvement of them without proper reviews Watts on the Mind 2, Particular ; individual As no fingl ma is bor wit a right of con trouling the opinions of all the reft, fo the worl has no title to demand the whole time of any particular perfon Pope If one fingle word wete to exprefs but one fimpl idea, and nothing elfe, there would be fcarce an miftake Watts 3. Not compounded As fimple ideas are oppofed to complex, an Jingle ideas to compound, fo propofitions are diftinguifthed: th Englit tongu ha fom advan %age above the learned languages, which have n ufual word to diftinguifh fingle from fimple. Warts 4 Alone; having no companio no affiftant ; havin Servant of God, well haft thou fough The better fight, who jing/e haft maintain' Againft revolted multitudes the caufe of troth Milton His wifdom fuch Three kingdoms wonder, and three kingdoms fear ‘Whillt fingle he ftood forth In fweet poffeflion of the fairy place Single, and confcious to myfelf alon Danbam ©Of pleafures to th' excluded world unknown Dryden 5. Unmarried Is the fingle ma therefore blefled ? no: as walled town is more worthier than a village, f is the forehead of a married man more honourabl than the bare brow of a bachelor So fingle chofe to live, and fhunn'd to wed Weil flcas'd to want a confort of his 'hed. Dryden Dryden A rolling fire along, and finge the grafs Shakefpeare Pygmalio T finged the toes of an ape through a burnin not time S S I' 6 Not complicated ; not duplicated To make flowers double, is effeted by often removing them into new earth; as, on the contrary doubl flowers by negletin an not removing Bacon's Natural Hiffory prove fingle 7. Pure ; uncorrupt ; not double-minded fimple A fcriptural fenfe The light of the body is the eye: if thine ey be fingle, thy whole body fhall be full of light Matt. vi. 22 8. That in which one 1s oppofed to one He, when his country, threaten'd with alarms Shall more than once the Punick bands affright Shall kill the Gaulifh king in fingle fight Dryden's Ancid 70 SI'NGLE. . a. [from the adjetive. i. To chufe out from among others I faw him in the battle range about And how he fingied Clifford forth. Shak. Hen. V1 Every man may have a peculiar favour, which although not perceptible unto man, is yet fenfibl unto dogs, who hereb in the dark can fingle out their mafte Bacon Doft thou already fingle me I though Gyves and the mill had tam'd thee. Milt. Agonif Begin, aufpicious boy, to caft abou Thy infant eyes, and with a fmile thy mothe Jingle out Dryden Single the lowlieft of the am'rous youth Afk for his vows, but hope not for his truth. Prior 2. To fequefter; to withdraw Yea fimply, faith Bafil, and univerfally, whethe it be in works of. nature, or of voluntary choice, fee not any thing done as it fhould be, if it b wrought by an dgent finglizg itfelf from conforts Hooker 3. To take alone 4. To feparate Hardly they herd, which by good hunters fingle are SI'NGLENESS. 7. [from fngl. Sidney Sim fincerity ; honeft plainnef It is not the deepnefs of their knowledge, bu the finglencfs of their belief, which God accepteth Hioker Men muft be obliged to go through their bufinef with finglenefs of heart Law Si'NcLy. adv. [from fingle. 1. Individually ; particularly If the injured perfon be not righted, every on of them is wholly guilty of the injuftice, and therefore bound to reftitution fimgly and entirely Taylor's Rule of Living Holy They tend to the perfeétion of human nature and to make men fingly and perfonally good, o tend to the happinefs of fociety Tillotfon's Serm 2. Only; by himfelf Look thee, 'tis fo; thou fugly honeft man Here take: the gods out of my mifer Have fent thee treafure. . Shak. Timon of Athens 3. Without partners or affociates Belind Burns to encounter two advent'rous knights At ombre fingly to decide their doom Pope 4. Honeftly ; fimply ; fincerely SINGULAR. adj. [ fingulier, Fr. fingularis, Latin. 1. Single; not complex5 not compound ‘That idea which reprefents one particular deter- minate thing, is called a JSingular idea, whethe fimple, complex, or compound 2. [In grammar. not pluaral ermlautu‘de ga, 3. Particular; unexampled Watts Exprefling only one If Sto Pawl's fpeaking of himfelf in the fish per Lm‘ So fingular a fadnef Muft have 4 caufe as ftrange as th effe®, Denbap ; am'&fly'.;‘ Doubtlefs, if you are innocent ou E tremely hard, yetit s notfingu/ar.ypm;:g;'w::- 4. Having fomething not commo t0 Others Tt is commonly ufed in a fenfe of dif approbation, whether applied to perfon or things J I, His zea None feconded, as fizgular an rafh Milin It is very commendable to be fingular in apy ey cellency, and religion is the greateft excellenc to be fingular in any thing thatis wif an waorth Tfflwjm praife bu t ageme difpa is not 5. Alone; that of which there is but og Thef bufts of the emperors and empreflesar all 7., ( very fcarce, and fome of them almofifingula iw‘i their kind Mfw SINGULA'RITY from fingular. 1. Some charaéte n. b [ fingulayité, By, or quality by Whichg one is diftinguithed from all, or fro moft others Pliny addethsthis fingularity to that foil, thatt fecond year the very falling down of the feeds yicld eth corn 2. An thin Rakigh, remarkable; a curiofit uncommon charaéter or form Your galler Have we pafs'd through, not witmuc t ho conten In ingularities; but we faw no That which my daughter came to look upon Shak. Winter's Tal The ftatue of her mother I took notice of this little figure for thgfi.ngnl rity.of the infrrument Many men there are, than whom nothing i more commendable when they are fingled; and yet in fociety with others, none lefs fit to anfwer th duties which are looked for at their hands. Hooker plicity fon fingular has fo various mesnine the firft perfon plyral hasa great o i"lm‘ itis not unlike aviolin Addifon on Ttal 3. Particular privilege or prerogativé & T St. Gregory, being himfelf a bifhop of R'ome,,‘: and writing againft the title of univerfal bifio faith thus: None of all my predeceffors ever col- fented to ufe this ungodly title; no biflopof Ram ever took upon him this name of fingularitys Hake Catholicifm whic is here attrxbu'ted l!ntO.!!}_e»b church, muft be underftood in oppofition to the [3‘:"' gal fingularity of the Jewifh nation 4. Chara@er or manner Pear different fro thofe of others The fpirit of fingularity in a few oughtto give place to publick judgment ngf Though, according to the pratice of thewo it be fingular for men thoroughly to live ‘{P" the principles of their religion, yegfiflgflm‘ this matter is a fingular commendation Ofl't Tillotfon's § Emfln‘ Singularit in fi finc puts it out of fafhion be alo%xe in 'iny praéPtice feems to make the.llfi;‘_. ment of the world againt it; but the concuric of others is a tacit approbation of that lnwmcsauifi- !{ Ui concur fi ; l g fi [ 4 @ 7o SI'"NGULAR l n f k m ' . Q a u n f o f Fr A to SI'NGULARLY. adw. [from fingular ll; i;""m' 'Y"':"‘Efitq"tg‘\ ticularly; in a manner not commo Lt others Solitude and fingularity can neither da‘:q?ér:w N S i po fu l co w ef un difgrace hi to be fingularly good SUNGULT. #. /. [ fingultus . _ t L e f n f SI'NISTER f l f l 1. Being o ed right; not dexter. 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