Word Meanings - SINGLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet.

• Single-hearted
  Having an honest heart; free from duplicity.
• DOUBLETONGUING
  A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.
• SINGLEACTING
  Having simplicity of action; especially (Mach.), acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
• Opposite
  Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange.
• Single-minded
  Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single-hearted.
• SINGLEBREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• Oppositely
  In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely.
• Singleness
  The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity.
• SINGLEFOOT
  An irregular gait of a horse; -- called also single-footed pace. See Single, v. i. 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 s
• Doublethreaded
  Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
• Oppositeness
  The quality or state of being opposite.
• SINGLEHANDED
  Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
• Doubletree
  The bar, or crosspiece, of a carriage, to which the singletrees are attached.
• Oppositifolious
  Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
• Singlestick
  In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword.
• SINGLEHEARTED
  Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- Sin"gle-heart"ed*ly, adv.

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