Sing-sing to Sinque
Sing-sing
(Sing"-sing`) n. (Zoöl.) The kob.
Singsong
(Sing"song`) n.
1. Bad singing or poetry.
2. A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song.
Singsong
(Sing"song`), a. Drawling; monotonous.
Singsong
(Sing"song`), v. i. To write poor poetry. [R.] Tennyson.
Singster
(Sing"ster) n. A songstress. [Obs.] Wyclif.
Singular
(Sin"gu*lar) a. [OE. singuler, F. singulier, fr. L. singularius, singularis, fr. singulus single.
See Single, a.]
1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. [Obs.] Bacon.
And God forbid that all a company
Should rue a singular man's folly.
Chaucer. 2. Engaged in by only one on a side; single. [Obs.]
To try the matter thus together in a singular combat.
Holinshed. 3. (Logic) Existing by itself; single; individual.
The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex,
or compound.
I. Watts. 4. (Law) Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular.
5. (Gram.) Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; — opposed to dual and plural.
6. Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon.
So singular a sadness
Must have a cause as strange as the effect.
Denham. 7. Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a
man of singular gravity or attainments.
8. Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; — often implying disapproval or censure.
His zeal
None seconded, as out of season judged,
Or singular and rash.
Milton.
To be singular in anything that is wise and worthy, is not a disparagement, but a praise.
Tillotson. 9. Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique.
These busts of the emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them almost singular in
their kind.
Addison. Singular point in a curve (Math.), a point at which the curve possesses some peculiar properties not
possessed by other points of the curve, as a cusp point, or a multiple point. — Singular proposition
(Logic), a proposition having as its subject a singular term, or a common term limited to an individual
by means of a singular sign. Whately. — Singular succession (Civil Law), division among individual
