single entry

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1.One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. [1913 Webster]

No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest.— Pope.[1913 Webster]

2.Alone; having no companion. [1913 Webster]

Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

3.Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman. [1913 Webster]

Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

Single chose to live, and shunned to wed.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

4.Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope. [1913 Webster]

5.Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat. [1913 Webster]

These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

6.Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. [1913 Webster]

Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound.— I. Watts.[1913 Webster]

7.Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere. [1913 Webster]

I speak it with a single heart.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

8.Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice.— Beau. & Fl.[1913 Webster]

Single ale, Single beer, or Single 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. [1913 Webster]

1.The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking. [1913 Webster]

2.The act of making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a transaction; as, an entry of a sale; also, that which is entered; an item. [1913 Webster]

A notary made an entry of this act.— Bacon.[1913 Webster]

3.That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine. [1913 Webster]

A straight, long entry to the temple led.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

4.(Com.) The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n., 5. [1913 Webster]

5.(Law) (a) The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them. (b) A putting upon record in proper form and order. (c) The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary. --Burrill. [1913 Webster]

Bill of entry. See under Bill.

Double entry, Single entry. See Bookkeeping.

Entry clerk (Com.), a clerk who makes the original entries of transactions in a business.

Writ of entry (Law), a writ issued for the purpose of obtaining possession of land from one who has unlawfully entered and continues in possession. --Bouvier. [1913 Webster]