SIN'GLE, a. 1. Separate; one; only; individual; consisting of one only; as a single star; a single city; a single act.2. Particular; individual. No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest.3. Uncompounded. Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound.4. Alone; having no companion or assistant. Who single hast maintain'd against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.5. Unmarried; as a single man; a single woman.6. Not double; not complicated; as a single thread; a single strand of a rope.7. Performed with one person or antagonist on a side, or with one person only opposed to another; as a single fight; a single combat.8. Pure; simple; incorrupt; unbiased; having clear vision of divine truth. Matt. 6.9. Small; weak; silly10. In botany, a single flower is when there is only one on a stem, and in common usage, one not double.
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