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It ftands in a kind of peninfula, formed by the (2 two arms of the Red Sea, one of which stretches out towards the N. and is called the Griph of Kolfum; the other extends towards the E. called the Gulph of Elan, or the Elanitish Sea. At this day the Arabians call Mount Sinai by the name of Tor, i. e. the mountain, by way of excellence; or Gibel or Fibel Mouja, the mountain of Moses. It is 260 miles from Cairo, and generally it requires a journey of ten days to travel thither. The wilderpefs of Sinai, where the Ifraelites continued encamped for almoft a year, and where Mofes erected the tabernacle of the covenant, is confiderably elevated above the rest of the country; and the afcent to it is by a very craggy way, the greateft part of which is cut out of the rock; then one comes to a large space of ground, which is a plain furrounded on all fides by rocks and eminences, whofe length is nearly 12 miles. Towards the extremity of this plain, on the north fide, two high mountains show themfelves, the higheft of which is called Sinai and the other Horch. The tops of Horeb and Sinai have a very fleep afcent, and do not stand upon much ground, in comparifon to their extraordinary height: that of Sinai is at least one 3d part higher than the other, and its afcent is more upright and difficult. Two German miles and a half up the mountain ftands the convent of St Catharine. The body of this monaftery is a building 120 feet in length and almost as many in breadth. Before it stands another small building, in which is the only gate of the convent, which remains always thut, except when the bishop is here. At other times, whatever is introduced within the convent, whether inen or provifions, is drawn up by the roof in a basket, and with a cord and a pulley. The whole build. ing is of hewn ftone; which, in fuch a defert, muft have coft prodigious expence. Near this chapel iilues a fountain of very good freth water. Five or fix paces from it they fhow a ftone, the height of which is 4 or 5 feet, and breadth about three, which, they say, is the very stone whence Mofes caufed the water to gufh out. Its colour is of a spotted grey, and it is as it were fet in a kind of earth, where no other rock appears. This fone has 12 holes or channels, which are about a foot wide, whence it is thought the water came forth for the Ifraelites to drink. Much has been faid of the writings to be feen at Sinai and in the plain about it; and hopes were entertained of difcovegies refpe&ting the wanderings of the Ifraelites from thefe writings. But the accurate Danish traveller, Niebuhr, found no writings there but the names of perfons who had visited the place from curiofity, and of Egyptians who bad chofen to be buried in that region. See MOUNTAIN, 20. SINAPIS, MUSTARD, in botany, a genus of plants belonging to the clafs of tetradynamia, and to the order of filiquofa; and in the natural fyftem ranged under the 39th order. Siliquofa. The Calyx confifts of four expanding trap fhaped deviduous leaves; the ungues or bafes of the petals ae ftraight; two glandules between the fhorter #tarra and piftillum, alfo between the longer and the calyx. There are 17 fpecies:

1. SINAPIS ALBA; 2. ALLIONI; 3. ARVEN

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SIS; 4. BRASSICATA; 5. CERNUA; 6. CHINEN-
NICA; 10. INCANA; II. JUNCEA; 12. LÆVIGA-
SIS; 7. ERUCOIDES; 8. HISPANICA; 9. JAPO-
TA; 13. MILLEFOLIA; 14. NIGRA; _15. ORIEN
TALIS; 16. PUBESCENS; and 17. PYRENAICA.
Of thefe, 3 are natives of Britain: viz.

cultivated as a falad herb for winter and fpring 1. SINAPIS ALBA, white mustard, is generally ufe. This rifes with a branched hairy ftalk two feet high; the leaves are deeply jagged on their edges and rough. The flowers are disposed in loofe fpikes at the end of the branches, ftanding upon horizontal footstalks; they have four yellow petals in form of a crofs, which are fucceeded by hairy pods, that end with long, compreffed, oblique beaks; the pods generally contain four white feeds.

rable land in many parts of Britain. The feed of 2. SINAPIS ARVENSIS, grows naturally on athis is commonly fold under the title of Durham mustard-feed. Of this there are two varieties, if not diftinct species; the one with cut, the other with entire leaves. The ftalks rife two feet high; the leaves are rough; in the one they are jagged like turnip-leaves; in the other they are long and entire. The flowers are yellow; the pods are turgid, angular, and have long beaks.

frequently found growing naturally in many parts 3. SINAPIS NIGRA, common mustard, which is of Britain, but is alfo cultivated in fields for the feed, of which the fauce called mustard is made. This rifes with a branching stalk 4 or 5 feet high; the lower leaves are large, rough, and very like thofe of turnip; the upper leaves are smaller and grow in fpiked clusters at the end of the branches; lefs jagged. The flowers are small, yellow, and they have four petals placed in form of a cross, and are fucceeded by fmooth four-corned pods.→ Mustard, by its acrimony and pungency, ftimulates the folids, and attenuates vifcid juices; and hence ftands defervedly recommended for exciting appetite, aflifting digeftion, promoting the fluid fecretions, and for the other purposes of the acrid plants called ANTISCOR BUTtic. talte and smell in perfection to aqueous liquors, It imparts its and by diftillation with water yields an effential give out very little either of their fmell or taste. oil of great acrimony. To rectified fpirit its feeds Subjected to the prefs, they yield a confiderable quantity of mild infipid oil, which is as free from acrimony as that of almonds. They are applied tic limbs; to parts affected with fixed rheumatic as an external stimulant to benumbed or paralypains; and to the foles of the feet, in the low ftage of acute difeafes, for raifing the pulfe: in powdered feeds and crumb of bread, with the adthis intention, a mixture of equal parts of the dition fometimes of a little bruifed garlic, are made into a cataplafm with a fufficient quantity of vinegar.

an external medicine, in form of a cataplafm, comSINAPISM, . f. [from Sinapis], in pharmacy. pofed chiefly of muftard-feed pulverized, and other ingredients mentioned in the last article, §

3.

SINBACH, or SIMPACH, a town of Lower Ba-
gelfingen.
varia: 5 miles S. of Landau, and 9 ESE. of Din-

(1-3) SIN

(1-3.) SINCAPORA, (13.) SINCAPOURA, or (1-3.) SINCAPURA, S. coaft of Malacca; oppofite 103. 30. E. Lat. 1. 12. N.

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(4.) SINCAPURA, STRAITS OF, a narrow channel between the above island, MALACCA and Sumatra.

SIN-CARPON, a town of Chinese Tartary, 315 miles ENE. of Pekin. Lon. 144. 34. E. Ferro. Lat. 41. 23. N.

(1.) SINCE. adv. [formed by contraction from thence, or fith thence, from fithe, Saxon.] 1. Because that. Since the clearett difcoveries we have of other ipirits are imparted by revelation, the information should be taken from thence. Locke

Since truth and conftancy are vain, Since neither love, nor fense of pain, Nor force of reafon, can perfuade. Granville. 2. From the time that.-Am not I thine afs, upon which thou haft ridden ever fince I was thine unto this day? Numb. xxii. 30.—He is the moft improved mind fince you faw him. Pope. 3. Ago; before this.-About two years fince, it fell out. Sidney.

Elfe had I, fir,

Half an hour fince, brought my report. Shak. -A law was made no longer fince than the 28th of Henry the VIII. Davies,

How many ages fince has Virgil writ!

Ro/common. (2.) SINCE. prepofition. After; reckoning from fome time paft to the time prefent.—

He Since the morning hour fet out from beav'n. Milton. -I have a model by which he may build a nobler poem than any extant fince the ancients. Dryden.

SINCERE. adj. \ fincerus, Latin; fincere, Fr.] 1. Cahurt; uninjured.

Th' inviolable body stood fincere. Dryden. 2. Pure; unmingied.

A joy which never was fincere till now. Dryd. -The pleasures of fenfe beafts tafte fincere and pure. Atterbury.-There is no fincere acid in any animai juice. Arb.-In English I would have all Galücifms avoided, that our tongue may be fin ure. Felton. 3. Hoaeft; undiffembling; uncorrupt.

From fincere motions by intelligence I do know to be corrupt. Shak. Your fincereft care could not prevent. Mit. -The more fincere you are, the better it will fare with you. In the mean while, give us leave to be fincere too. Waterland.-Through the want of a facere intention of pleafing God in all our actions, we fall into irregularities of life. Law.

SINCERELY. adv. [from fincere.] Honeftly; without hypocrify; with purity of heart.-The purer our religion 13, the worthier effects it hath in them who fincerely embrace it. Hooker.

That you may, fair lady,
Perceive I fpeak fincerely, the king's majesty
Does purpose honour to you.
-Keep your mind fincerely intent in the purfuit
of truth. Watts.

Shak.

1. Ho.

* SINCERENESS Į n. f. ↓ fincerité, French; (r.) SINCERITY. from fincere.] nefty of intention; purity of ni.d.-Jefus Chrift will accept of fincerity witead of perfection; but then this fincerity implies our honest endeavours to do our utmolt. Rogers. 2. Freedom from hypocrify.

Pope.

For thee the feels fincerity of woe. (2.) SINCERITY. See MORAL PHILOSOPHY, Part II. S. III. § VI.

SINCHO, a town of Africa, on the Gold Coat in the kingdom of Ningo. The natives are mʊftly employed in fishing.

SINCIPUT, in anatomy, the forepart of the head reaching from the forehead to the coronal future.

SINCKEL, a river of Germany, which runs into the Wertach, 2 miles SSW. of Augsburg. SINCUS, one of the three first fovereigns of Ruffia. See RUSSIA,

2.

SINDE, in ancient geography, islands in the Indian Ocean, fuppofed to be the NICOBAR ISLANDS.

(1.) SINDE, the modern name of the INDUS.. (2.) SINDE, or TATTA. See TATTA.

SINDELFINGEN, a town of Suabia, in Wartemburg, 6 miles SW. of Stutgard, and 30 of Baden. Lon. 26. 38. E. Ferro. Lat. 48. 41. N.

SINDI, an ancient nation of European Scythia, on the Palus Mæotis. Hor. vi. 86.

SINDLON, a town of Egypt on the W. branch of the Nile, 15 miles SE. of Foua.

SINDON. n. f. [Latin.] A fold; a wrapper. -Wrapped in sindons of linen. Baron.. SINDSCHAR, or SINJA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Moful, 30 miles S. of Moful.

SINDY, a province of Hindoostan Proper, bounded on the W. by Makran, a province of Perfia; on the N. by the territories of the king of Candahar; on the NE. by those of the Seiks; on the E. by a sandy desert; and on the SE. by Cutch. It extends along the course of the Sinde or Indus from its mouth to Behker, near Meultan. It is 300 miles long; and in its wideft part, about 160 broad. In foil, climate, and furface, Sindy refembles Egypt; the lower part of it being composed of rich vegetable mould, and extended into a wide vailey; while the upper part of it is a narrow flip, confined on one fide by mountains, and on the other by a fandy defert, the Indus winding through this valley, and annually overflowing it. During great part of the SW. monfoon, in July, Auguft, and Sept. which is the rainy featon n other parts of India, the atmosphere is clouded; but no rain fails except very near the fea, and very little during the whole year; owing to which, and the neighbourhood of the fandy deferts, which bound it on the E. and NW. the heats are fo violent, and the winds from thofe quarters fo pernicious, that the houses are contrived fo as to be ventilated by a pertures on the tops of them, resembling the tunnels of small chimneys. When the hot winds prevail, the windows are ciofety fhut; and the lowest and hotteft part of the current of air be ing thus excluded, a cooler part defcends into the house thro' the funnels. Thus also vaft clouds of duft

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duft are excluded. The roofs are compofed of thick layers of earth. Few countries are more unwholefome. The prince is a Mahometan tributary to the king of Candahar. He refides at Hydrabad, although TATTA is the capital. The Hindoos, who were the original inhabitants are by their Mahometan governors treated with great rigour, and denied the public exercife of their religion. The iniand parts of Sindy produce faltpetre, falanmoniac, borax, hezoar, lapis lazuli, and raw fisk. They have alto manu actories of cotton and filk; and of cabinets, inlaid with ivary, and finely lackered. They aifo export great quantities of butter. The ladies wear boops of ivory on their arms and legs, which when they die are burnt with them. They have large black cattle, excelient mutton, and tail hardy horfes. Their wild game are deer, hares, antelopes, and foxes, which they hunt with dogs, ieopards, and a fall fierce creature called a fial guh.

2. Strong; firm; vigorous.

Ourfelves weil sinewed to our defence. Shak. * SINEWSHRUNK. adj. [sinew and fhrunk.] A horse is said to be sinewfhrunk when he has been over-ridden, and fo fatigued that he becomes gaunt-beliied by a stiffness and contraction of the two finews which are under his belly. Furrier's Dictionary.

* SINEWY. adj. [from sinew.] 1. Confisting of a finew; nervous. The nerves and linews are in poetry often confounded, from nervous, Latin, which fignifies a finew.

The sinery thread my brains lets fail. Donne. 2. Strong; nervous; vigorous; forcibe. Milo his additions yields

To sinewy Ajax.

Shak. Shak.

Mo't sineawy. fwordfmen. --The northern people are large, fair-complexioned, ftrong, sinesus, and courageous. Hale.→ He dropt his sinecup arms. SINFONG, a town of China, of the third rank, in Kiang-fi, 27 miles S. of Kan-cheou.

Pope.

* SINFUL. adj. [sin and full.] 1. Alien from God; not holy; unfanctified.Milt.

(1.) * SINE. n. f.[sinus Latin.] A right sine, in geometry, is a right line drawn from one end of an arch perpendicularly upon the diameter drawn from the other end of that arch; or it is half the chord of twice the arch. Harris.-The.. sine of the angle of incidence of every ray, confidered apart, fhall have to the sine of the angle of refraction a conftant ratio. Cheyne.

(2.) SINE, OF RIGHT SINE OF AN ARCH, in trigonometry. See GEOMETRY and TRIGONOMETRY.

* SINECURE. .f.isine, without, and cura, care, Latin.] An office which has revenue without any employment.-A sinecure is benefice with out cure of fouls. Ayliffe.

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No fimony or sinecure were known. Garth. SINES, a fea port town of Portugal, in Eltramadura, containing about 1400 inhabitants, 39 miles S. of Setuval. Lon. 9. 45. E. Ferro. Lat. 37. 48. N.

SINESCLA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Diarbekir, 80 miles E. of Rabba.

(1.) SINEW. n. f. [fe.we, Saxon; fenewen, Dutch.] 1. A tendon; the ingament by which the joints are moved.

The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lufty fineaus.

Shak.

Fear fhrunk my finews. Dryden. A new cracked feldom recovers its former Prength. Locke. 2. Applied to whatever gives Prength or compactness: as, money is the sinews of war. Some other sinerus there are. Hooker. -Such difcouraging of men cracks the sinerus of government. South. In the principal figures of a picture the painter is to employ the sinews of his art. Dryden. 3. Muscle or nerve.-

Sinews, which extend from bead to foot.

Davies. (2) SINEWS, TENDONS, or LIGAMENTS. See ANATOMY, Index, under LIGAMENTS.

*T SINEW. v. a. [from the noun.] To knit as by linews. Not in ufe.--

So that thou sirew both thefe
ther.

SINEWED. adj. [from sineau.

ed with fiuews.—

Strong sinew'd was the youth.

lands toge

Shak.

1. Furniti

Drydin.

Drive out the sinful pair.

2. Wicked; not obfervant of religion; contrary to religion. It is used both of perfons and things.

Shews the way his sinful foul to fave. F. Q. Though pure of sinful thought. Mile. -The ftoicks looked upon all paffions as sinful defects. South.

SINFULLY. adv. [from sinful.] Wickedly; not piously; not according to the ordinance of God.

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All this from my remembrance brutish wrath Sinfully pluckt. Shak. The ambitious man attempts to please others sinfully. South.

* SINFULNESS. n.f. [from sinful.)_Alienation from God; neglect or violation of the duties of religion; contrariety to religious goodness.— Supernal grace contending With sinfulness of men. Milt. -Peevithnefs is equally to be avoided for the totly and sinfulness. Wake.

(1, 2.) SING, in geography, two towns of Afia, in the kingdom of Corea, 1ft, 25 miles SE. of Long-Koyang: 2. in the prov. of Kan-chan, 153 miles SSE. of King-ki-tao. Lon. 145. 53. E Ferro. Lat. 35. 27. N.

(3.) SING, SIGN, SIGNUM, or Seign, a territory of Maritime Auftria, in Dalmatia, furrounded by Cliff, Koin, and Trau, 30 miles long, 28 broad, and divided into two equal parts by the Cettina, the ancient TILURUS. It is mountainous, but the valleys are fertile. It is frequented by large vultures, whofe wings, when spread out, measure above to feet, and which often carry off lambs, sheep, and even children. It was formerly very populous, but now contains only about 15,000 people, the population having been much redu. ced by the plague in 1784..

(4.) SING, SIGN, or SIGNUM, a town in the a. bove territory, built by the Turks, on a freep rock, oppofite to Cliffa, ftrongly fortified on all

ies, and almoft inacceffible on three. It was ta

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SHINAR, N. of Mefopotamia. The city is now cailed SINJIAR.

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Some in heroick verfe divinely sing. Dryden. 2. To atter fweet founds inarticulately. The time of the singing of birds is come. Cant. ii. 12. -You will founer bind a bird from singing than from flying. Bacon.

Join voices, all ye birds,

That singing up to heav'n's gate afcend. Milt. And singing birds, in filver cages hung. Ovid. The captive bird that sings within thy bow'r.

Pope. 3. To make any fall or fhrill noife.-A man may hear this shower sing in the wind. ShukFly with faite aim; pierce the ftill moving

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in poetry.

Of great Meffiah fing.

Milton. I sing the man who Judah's fceptre bore, Cowley. Arms and the man I sing. Dryden. Well might he sing the day he could not fear. Smith.

2. To celebrate; to give praises to in verse.The last, the happiest British king, Whom thou shalt paint or I fhail sing. Addison. 3. To utter harmoniously.→

He sings them over as they were gods and goddeffes. Shak. -Sing us one of the fongs of Zion. Pf. cxxxvii. 3. How could we to his godhead sing? Milt. SINGÆI, an ancient nation on the borders of Thrace and Macedonia.

(1.) SIN-GAN, a city of China of the 1ft rank, in Chen-fi, the largest and finest in the empire, ezept Peking. It is built on a great plain, and is the refidence of the governors of Chan-fi and Se-tchuen. It comprehends 6 cities of the ad rank, and 31 of the 3d. It was anciently the feat of the emperors, and is ftill very populous. The walls are 12 miles in circuit, nearly iquare, fortified with towers, and furrounded with a deep ditch. The gates are high and magnificent. It has a great trade, and lies 510 miles SW. of Pe. kan. Lon. 126. 15. E. Ferro. Lat. 35. 14. N. (1.) SIN-GAN, a town of China, of the 3d rank, in Pe-tche-ii, 22 miles ENE. of Pao-ting. SINGARA, a city and river of the ancient

SINGARPILLY, a town of Hindoostan, in the Myfore, 23 miles ESE. of Chinna Baibaran.

To SINGE. v. a. [saengen, Saxon; fenghen, Dutch. To fcorch; to burn lightly or supercially.

They bound the doctor,
Whole bear'd they have sing'd off.

Shak.

Drake would call this enterprize the singeing of the king of Spain's beard. Bacon.-That nei ther was tigned in the combuition of Phaeton, nor overwhelmed by the inundation of Deucalion. Brown.

They leave a singed bottom all involv'd.

Milton. I singed the toes of an ape through a burningglais. L'Etrange.

Thus riding on his curls, he feem'd to país A rolling fire along, and singe the grafs. Dryd. (1.) * SINGER. n. f. [from sing.] One that fings; one whote profilion or butinefs is to fing. His fuching was like an unikilful singer. Shak. I gat me men singers and women singers. Eccl. i 8-To the chiet singer. Hab. iii.-Cockbirds amongst the ringing birds are ever the better singers. Bacon.

Now my trait'rous fong

With thee confpires to do the singer wrong.

Waller.

Those cheerful singers know not why They fhould make any hafte to die. Waller. The Grecian tragedy was at firft nothing but a chorus of singers. Dryden.

(2.) SINGERS, in the temple of Jerusalem, were a number of Levites employed in finging the praises of God, and playing upon instruments before his altar. They had no habits diftinct from the reit of the people; yet in the ceremony of removing the ark to Solomon's temple, the chanters appeared dressed in tunics of byffus or fine linen. 2 Chron. v. 12.

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SINGESECKEN, a town of Norway, in Drontheim, 46 miles SSW. of Drontheim.

SINGH, in Indian mythology. See SPHINX, N° II

SINGILIEV, a town of Ruffia, in Simbirfkoe, on the Volga, 24 miles S. of Simbirsk.

(1.) SINGING, n. f. part. the action of making divers inflections of the voice, agreeable to the ear, and correfpondent to the notes of a fong or piece of melody. (See MELODY.) The first thing to be done in learning to fing, is to raise a scale of notes by tones and femitones to an octave, and descend by the same notes; and then to rife and fall by greater intervals, as a third, fourth, fifth, &c. and to do ali this by notes of ditferent pitch. Then thefe notes are represented by lines and spaces, to which the syllable fa, fol, la, mi, are applied, and the pupil taught to name each line and pace thereby; whence this piactice is called fol-faing, the nature, reason, effects, &c. whereof, fee under SOLFAING.

(2.) SINGING OF BIRDS. It is worthy of obfervation, that the female of no fpecies of birds ever fings: with birds it is the reverte of what occurs in human kind. Among the feathered tribe, all the cares of life fall to the

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thing done as it fhould be, if it be wrought by an
agent singling itself from conforts. Hooker. 3. To
take aione.-)
-Many men there are, than whom
nothing is more commendable when they are sin-
gled. Hooker. 4. To separate.-Hardly they herd,
which by good hunters singled are. Sidney.

* SINGLENESS. n. f. [from single. Simplicity; fincerity; honeft plainnefs.-It is not the decpnefs of their knowledge, but the singleness of their belief, which God accepteth. Hooker.Men must go through their bufinefs with singlenefs of heart. Law.

lot of the tender fex; theirs is the fatigue of
incubation; and the principal fhare in nurf-
ing the helplefs brood: to alleviate thefe fa-
tigues, and to fupport her under them, nature
hath given to the male the fong, with all the little
blandifhment and foothing arts; these he fondly
exerts (even after courtship) on fome fpray conti-
guous to the neft, during the time his mate is
performing her parental duties. But that he
fhould be filent is alfo another wife provifion of
nature, for her fong would difcover her neft; as
would alfo a gaudinefs of plumage, which, for the
fame reafon, feems to have been denied her. On
the fong of birds feveral curious experiments and
obfervations have been made by the Hon. Daines
Barrington. See Phil. Tranf. vol. Ixiii. and SONG,
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SINGINGMASTER. n.. [sing and master.
One who teaches to fing.-He employed an itine-
rant fingingmafter to inftruct them. Addifon.
SINGLE. adj. [singulus, Lat.] 1. One; not
double; not more than one.-Their originals are
of fingle fignification. South.-

Some were fingle a&s.

Dryden. A fingle concord in a double name. Dryden. A fingle houfe to their benighted guest. Addifon. Where the poefy or oratory thines, a fingle reading is not fufficient. Watts. 2. Particular; individual.--No single man is born with a right of controuling the opinions of all the reft. Pope.-If one Jingle word were to exprefs but one fimple idea, and nothing eise, there would be scarce any miftake. Watts. 3. Not compounded. As fimple ideas are opposed to complex, and fingle ideas to compound, fo propofitions are diftinguished: the learned languages have no ufual word to diftinguish Angle from fimple. Watts. 4. Alone; having no companion; having no afliftant.-

Servant of God, well haft thou fought
The better fight, who fingle haft maintain'd
Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.
Milton.
Denham.

Single he stood forth.

Single and confcious to myself alone, Of pleasures to th' excluded world unknown. Dryden. 3. Unmarried. Is the fingle man therefore blef fed? no. Shak.

Pygmalion

Single chofe to live.

Dryden.

*SINGLY. adv. [from single.] 1. Individually; particularly.-Every one of them is wholly guilty of the injuftice, and therefore bound to reftitution singly and entirely. Taylor.-They tend to make men singly and perfonally good. Tillotson. 2. Only; by himself.

Look thee, 'tis fo; thou fingly honeft man, Here take. Shak.

3. Without partners or affociates.

At ombre fingly to decide their doom. Pope. 4. Honeftly; fimply; fincerely.

SINGO, a town of European Turkey, in Macedonia, on the coaft of the Gulf of Monte Santo. Lon. 24. o. E. Lat. 40. 13. N.

SINGON, an island near the coaft of Sweden, in the entrance of the Gulf of Finland. Lon. 18. 44. E. Lat. 60. 8. N.

SINGOR, a fea port town of Afia, in Siam, on the coaft of Malacca. Lon. 119. o. E. Ferro. Lat. 6. 40. N.

SINGROWLA, a circar of Hindoostan, in Alla-habad, SW. of Bahar.

(1.) * SINGULAR. adj. [singulier, Fr. singularis, Latin.] 1. Single; not complex; not compound.-That idea which represents one particu lar determinate thing is called a singular idea. Watts. 2. (In grammar.] Expreffing only one; not plural. If St Paul's fpeaking of himself in the firft perfon singular has fo various meanings, his ufe of the first perfon plural has a greater latitude. Locke. 3. Particular; unexampled.Denham.

So singular a fadness.

Milton

-Doubtless, if you are innocent, your case 18 extremely hard, yet it is not singular. Fem. Quix. 4. Having fomething not cominon to others. It is commonly ufed in a fenfe of disapprobation, whether applied to persons or things.— His zeal None feconded, as singular and rash. 6. Not complicated; not duplicated.-Double-It is very commendable to be singular in any flowers, by not removing, prove single. Bacon. 7. Pure; uncorrupt; not double-minded; fimple. A fcriptural fenfe.-If thine eye be single, thy whole body fhall be full of light. Matt. vi. 22. 8. That in which one is opposed to one.

He, when his country's threaten'd with alarms, Shall kill the Gaulish king in single fight. Dryd. To SINGLE. v. a. [from the adjective.] 1. To chufe out from among others.

How he fingled Clifford forth. Shak. Dogs hereby can fingle out their master in the dark. Brown.

Do't thou already fingle me? Milton. With a fmile thy mother single out. Dryden. Single the lowlieft of the am'rous youth. Prior. 1. To fequefter; to withdraw.-I fee not any

excellency; to be singular in any thing that is wife and worthy, is not a disparagement, but a praife. Tillotson. 5. Alone; that of which there is but one. These bufts of the emperors and empreffes are all very fcarce, and fome of them almoft singular in their kind. Addison.

(2.) SINGULAR NUMBER, in grammar. See GRAMMAR, under ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

* SINGULARITY. n. f. [singularité, Fr. from singular.] 1. Some character or quality by which one is diftinguished from all, or from moft others. -Pliny addeth this singularity to that foil, that the fecond year the very falling down of the feeds yieldeth corn. Raleigh. 2. Any thing remarkable ; a curiofity; uncommon character or form.— Your gallery

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