Word Meanings - SINGLETON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Single-hearted
  Having an honest heart; free from duplicity.
• Whistlingly
  In a whistling manner; shrilly.
• Single-minded
  Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single-hearted.
• Singleness
  The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity.
• SINGLEACTING
  Having simplicity of action; especially (Mach.), acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
• SINGLEBREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• Certainness
  Certainty.
• Singlestick
  In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword.
• 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
• Certainties
  of Certainty
• SINGLEHANDED
  Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
• Singleton
  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.
• SINGLEHEARTED
  Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- Sin"gle-heart"ed*ly, adv.

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