No single man is born with a right of controlling
the opinions of all the rest. --Pope.
2. Alone; having no companion.
Who single hast maintained, Against revolted
multitudes, the cause Of truth. --Milton.
3. Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman.
Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
--Shak.
Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. --Dryden.
4. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others;
as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.
5. Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single
combat.
These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . .
Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight.
--Milton.
6. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to
compound. --I. Watts.
7. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.
I speak it with a single heart. --Shak.
8. Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.]
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.
Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and
drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink.
--Luke xvii.
8.
He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. --Job xxi.
20.
Drink of the cup that can not cloy. --Keble.
2. To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in
merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to
lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the
?se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.
--Pope.
And they drank, and were merry with him. --Gem.
xliii. 34.
Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk
freely. --Thackeray.
{To drink to}, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the
act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking.
I drink to the general joy of the whole table, And
to our dear friend Banquo. --Shak.
There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, There
drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed. --Spenser.
The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs.
Betty's room. --Thackeray.
2. To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to
absorb; to imbibe.
And let the purple violets drink the stream.
--Dryden.
3. To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to
inhale; to hear; to see.
To drink the cooler air, --Tennyson.
My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words Of that
tongue's utterance. --Shak.
Let me . . . drink delicious poison from thy eye.
--Pope.
4. To smoke, as tobacco. [Obs.]
And some men now live ninety years and past, Who
never drank to tobacco first nor last. --Taylor
(1630.)
{To drink down}, to act on by drinking; to reduce or subdue;
as, to drink down unkindness. --Shak.
{To drink in}, to take into one's self by drinking, or as by
drinking; to receive and appropriate as in satisfaction of
thirst. ``Song was the form of literature which he [Burns]
had drunk in from his cradle.'' --J. C. Shairp.
{To drink off} or {up}, to drink the whole at a draught; as,
to drink off a cup of cordial.
{To drink the health of}, or {To drink to the health of}, to
drink while expressing good wishes for the health or
welfare of.
Give me some drink, Titinius. --Shak.
2. Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on,
wit is out.
{Drink money}, or {Drink penny}, an allowance, or perquisite,
given to buy drink; a gratuity.
{Drink offering} (Script.), an offering of wine, etc., in the
Jewish religious service.
{In drink}, drunk. ``The poor monster's in drink.'' --Shak.
{Strong drink}, intoxicating liquor; esp., liquor containing
a large proportion of alcohol. `` Wine is a mocker, strong
drink is raging.'' --Prov. xx. 1.