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by neglecting and not removing, prove single. Bacon.— 
Pure ; uncorrupt; not double minded ; simple. A scrip¬ 
tural sense. —The light of the body is the eye: if thine eye 
be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. St. Matt. 
—That in which one is opposed to one. 
He, when his country, threaten’d with alarms, 
Shall more than once the Punick bands affright, 
Shall kill the Gaulish king in single fight. Dryden. 
Singular; particular; small. 
They will scarce 
Serve to beg single beer. Beaum. and FI. 
Weak; silly.—Is not your voice broken ? your wind 
short ? your chin double ? your wit single ? Shakspeare. 
—He utters such single matter, in so infantly a voice. 
Beaum. and FI. 
To SI'NGLE, v. a. To choose out from among others. 
1 saw him in the battle range about. 
And how he singled Clifford forth. Shakspeare. 
To sequester; to withdraw.—Yea simply, saith Basil, and 
universally, whether it be in works of nature, or of voluntary 
choice, I see not any thing done as it should be, if it be 
wrought by an agent singling itself from consorts. Hooker. 
—To take alone.—Many men there are, than whom nothing 
is more commendable when they are singled; and yet, in 
society with others, none less fit to answer the duties which 
are looked for at their hands. Hooker. —To separate.—Hardly 
they herd, which by good hunters singled are. Sidney. 
SINGLEBQROUGH, a hamlet of England, in Bucking¬ 
hamshire; 3 miles north of Winslow. 
SI'NGLENESS, s. Not duplicity or multiplicity; the 
state of being only one.—'Simplicity; sincerity; honest 
plainness.—It is not the deepness of their knowledge, but 
the singleness of their belief, which God accepteth. Hooker. 
—State of being alone. 
Hear next, that Athelwold’s sad widow swears 
Never to violate the holy vow 
She to his truth first plighted ; swears to bear 
The sober singleness of widowhood 
To her sad grave. Mason. 
SINGLETON, a parish of England, in Sussex; 5| miles 
south-by-west of Midhurst. 
SINGLETON, a township of England, in Lancashire ; 
2 j miles east-by-south of Poulton. 
SI'NGLY, adv. Individually; particularly; only; by 
himself. 
Look thee, ’tis so ; thou singly honest man, 
Here take : the gods out of my misery 
Have sent thee treasure. 
Without partners or associates. 
Belinda 
Bums to encounter two adventurous knights, 
At ombre singly to decide their doom. 
Honestly; simply; sincerely. 
SINGROWLA, a district of Hindostan, province of 
Gundwaneb, situated about the 24th degree of northern 
latitude, and bounded on the east by the province of Bahar. 
It is mountainous, and abounds with woods; consequently 
poorly cultivated, and thinly inhabited. It is governed by 
Hindoo chieftains, who are tributary to the Nagpore Mah- 
rattas. Some.of the hills produce iron, and others of them 
contain several mythological excavations and images, but 
very inferior to those of Ellora, or the south of India. The 
principal of the native chieftains is the rajah of Shahpoor. 
SING-SING, a village and landing place of the United 
States, in West Chester county. New York, finely situated on 
a rising bank on the Hudson, where the river is about three 
miles wide; 36 miles north of New York. 
SI'NG-SONG, s. A contemptuous expression for bad 
singing.—Campanella tells us, that the German and Gallican 
heresy began with sing-song , and is carried on by comedy 
and tragedies. Rymer. 
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SI'NGULAR, adj. [singulier, Fr.; singularis, Latin.] 
Single; not complex; not compound.—That idea which 
represents one particular determinate thing is called a singu¬ 
lar idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. Watts .— 
[In grammar.] Expressing only one; not plural.—If St. 
Paul’s speakiug of himself in the first person singular has 
various meanings, his use of the first person plural has a 
greater latitude. Locke. —Particular; unexampled. 
So singular a sadness 
Must have a cause as strange as the effect. Denham. 
Having something not common to others. It is commonly 
used in a sense of diapprobation, whether applied to persons 
or things. 
His zeal 
None seconded, as singular and rash. Milton. 
Alone; that of which there is but one.—These busts of the 
emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them 
almost singular in their kind. Addison. 
SI'NGULAR, s. Particular; single instance.—We can¬ 
not o’er run through all singulars. More. 
SI'NGULARIST, s. One who affects singularity. 
SINGULARITY, s. [singularite, Fr.] Some character 
or quality by which one is distinguished from all, or from 
all, from most others.—Pliny addeth this singularity to that 
soil, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds 
yieldeth corn. Ralegh. —Any thing remarkable; a curio¬ 
sity ; uncommon character or form.—I took notice of this 
little figure for the singularity of the instrument: it is not 
unlike a violin. Addison. —Particular privilege or preroga¬ 
tive.—Catholicism, which is here attributed unto the church, 
must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of 
the Jewish nation. Pearson. —Character or manners dif¬ 
ferent from those of others.—The spirit of singularity in a 
few ought to give place to public judgment. Hooker. 
To SI'NGCLARIZE, v. a. [«e singulariser, French.] 
To make single. 
SI'NGULARLY, adv. Particularly ; in a manner not 
common to others.—Solitude and singularity can neither 
daunt nor disgrace him, unless we could suppose it a disgrace 
to be singularly good. South. —So as to express the sin¬ 
gular number.—Tertullian spake of bishops by succession, 
which were still singularly one by one. Bp. Morton. 
SPNGULT, s. [singultus , Latin.] A sigh. 
So when her tears were stopt from either eye. 
Her singulis, blubbrmgs, seem’d to make them fly 
Out at her oyster-mouth, and nostrils wide. Browne. 
SINGULTUS, in Medicine, a spasmodic affection of the 
diaphragm, which, from the sound which accompanies it, is 
Shakspeare. commonly called hicfiup. See Pathology. 
$ SINGTJMNERE, a district of Hindostan, province of 
Aurungabad, belonging to the Mahrattas. It is situated 
about the 20th degree of northern latitude, and, although 
hilly, is supposed to yield a revenue of 125,000/. per an¬ 
num. The chief towns are Singumnere, Battowal, and Be- 
japore. 
SINGUMNERE, the capital of the above-mentioned dis¬ 
trict, and residence of the Mahratta collector. Lat. 19. 46. 
N. long. 74. 40 E. 
SINHOA, a small sea-port of Cochin-china. Lat. 17. N. 
long. 88.14. E. 
SINIA, a small river of Siberia, which falls into the Obi; 
52 miles north of Beresof. 
SINIGAGLIA, a town of Italy, in the Ecclesiastical State, 
duchy of Urbino, situated on the Misa, at its influx into the 
Adriatic It is well built, and surrounded with a mound 
and bastions, but fresh water is unfortunately scarce, and the 
air is, in some seasons, unhealthy; so that the population 
does not exceed 6200. Its cathedral, of the Corinthian 
order, and some other churches, are worth notice. The 
principal source of its wealth is its well known fair, held an¬ 
nually in July, and resorted to at one time by foreigners 
from almost all parts of Europe, but now considerably de¬ 
cayed. It is sometimes called Senogallia, a name derived 
from 
Pope. 
