No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest. Pope.

Who single hast maintained,
Against revolted multitudes, the cause
Of truth. Milton.

Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. Shak.

Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. Dryden.

These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . .
Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight. Milton.

Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. I. Watts.

I speak it with a single heart. Shak.

He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. Beau. *** Fl.

Single ale, beer, or drink, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] Nares. -- Single bill (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. Burril. -- Single court (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for only two players. -- Single-cut file. See the Note under 4th File. -- Single entry. See under Bookkeeping. -- Single file. See under 1st File. -- Single flower (Bot.), a flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose. -- Single knot. See Illust. under Knot. -- Single whip (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block.

Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark. Bacon.

His blood! she faintly screamed her mind
Still singling one from all mankind. More.

An agent singling itself from consorts. Hooker.

Men . . . commendable when they are singled. Hooker.

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.