Single - SIN'GLE, a.
1. Separate; one; only; individual; consisting of one only; as a single star; a single city; a single act.
2. Particular; individual. No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest.
3. Uncompounded. Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound.
4. Alone; having no companion or assistant. Who single hast maintain'd against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.
5. Unmarried; as a single man; a single woman.
6. Not double; not complicated; as a single thread; a single strand of a rope.
7. Performed with one person or antagonist on a side, or with one person only opposed to another; as a single fight; a single combat.
8. Pure; simple; incorrupt; unbiased; having clear vision of divine truth. Mat 6.
9. Small; weak; silly
10. In botany, a single flower is when there is only one on a stem, and in common usage, one not double.
SIN'GLE, v.t.
1. To select, as an individual person or thing from among a number; to choose one from others. --A dog who can single out his master in the dark.
2. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire; as an agent singling itself from comforts.
3. To take alone; as men commendable when singled from society.
4. To separate.
Sit - SIT, v.i. pret. sat; old pp. sitten [L. sedeo.]
1. To rest upon the buttocks, as animals; as, to sit on a sofa or on the ground.
2. To perch; to rest on the feet; as fowls.
3. To occupy a seat or place in an official capacity. The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. Mat 23.
4. To be in a state of rest or idleness. Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here? Num 32.
5. To rest, lie or bear on, as a weight or burned; as, grief sits heavy on his heart.
6. To settle; to rest; to abide. Pale horror sat on each Arcadian face.
7. To incubate; to cover and warm eggs for hatching; as a fowl. As the partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not- Jer 17.
8. To be adjusted; to be, with respect to fitness or unfitness; as, a coat sits well or ill. This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, sits not so easy on me as you think.
9. To be placed in order to be painted; as, to sit for one's picture.
10. To be in any situation or condition. Suppose all the church lands to be thrown up to the laity; would the tenants sit easier in their rents than now?
11. To hold a session; to be officially engaged in public business; as judges, legislators or officers of any kind. The house of commons sometimes sits till late at night. The judges or the courts sit in Westminster hall. The commissioners sit every day.
12. To exercise authority; as, to sit in judgment. One council sits upon life and death.
13. To be in any assembly or council as a member; to have a seat.
14. To be in a local position. The wind sits fair. [Unusual]
To sit at meat, to be at table for eating.
To sit down,
1. to place one's self on a chair or other seat; as, to sit down at a meal.
2. To begin a siege. The enemy sat down before the town.
3. To settle; to fix a permanent abode.
4. To rest; to cease as satisfied. Here we cannot sit down, but still proceed in our search.
To sit out, to be without engagement or employment. [Little used.]
To sit up,
1. To rise or be raised from a recumbent posture. He that was dead sat up, and began to speak. Luke 7.
2. Not to go to bed; as, to sit up late at night; also, to watch; as, to sit up with a sick person.
SIT, v.t.
1. To keep the seat upon. He sits a horse well. [This phrase is elliptical.]
2. To sit me down, To sit him down, to sit them down, equivalent to I seated myself, & c. are familiar phrases used by good writers, though deviation from strict propriety. They sat them down to weep.
3. "The court was sat," an expression of Addison, is a gross impropriety.
Smite - SMITE, v.t. pret. smote; pp. smitten, smil. [This verb is the L. mitto.]
1. To strike; to throw, drive or force against, as the fist or hand, a stone or a weapon; to reach with a blow or a weapon; as, to smite one with the fist; to smite with a rod or with a stone. Whoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. Mat 5.
2. To kill; to destroy the life of by beating or by weapons of any kind; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other engine. David smote Goliath with a sling and a stone. The Philistines were often smitten with great slaughter. [This word, like slay, usually or always signification, that of beating, striking, the primitive mode of killing. We never apply it to the destruction of life by poison, by accident or by legal execution.]
3. To blast; to destroy life; as by a stroke or by something sent. The flax and the barley were smitten. Exo 9.
4. To afflict; to chasten; to punish. Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor imagine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken by him.
5. To strike or affect with passion. See what the charms that smite the simple heart. Smit with the love of sister arts we came.
TO SMITE WITH THE TONGUE, to reproach or upbraid. Jer 18.
SMITE, v.i. To strike; to collide. The heart melteth and the kness smite together. Nahum 2.
SMITE, n. A blow.
Smite - SMITE, v.t. pret. smote; pp. smitten, smil. [This verb is the L. mitto.]
1. To strike; to throw, drive or force against, as the fist or hand, a stone or a weapon; to reach with a blow or a weapon; as, to smite one with the fist; to smite with a rod or with a stone. Whoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. Mat 5.
2. To kill; to destroy the life of by beating or by weapons of any kind; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other engine. David smote Goliath with a sling and a stone. The Philistines were often smitten with great slaughter. [This word, like slay, usually or always signification, that of beating, striking, the primitive mode of killing. We never apply it to the destruction of life by poison, by accident or by legal execution.]
3. To blast; to destroy life; as by a stroke or by something sent. The flax and the barley were smitten. Exo 9.
4. To afflict; to chasten; to punish. Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor imagine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken by him.
5. To strike or affect with passion. See what the charms that smite the simple heart. Smit with the love of sister arts we came.
TO SMITE WITH THE TONGUE, to reproach or upbraid. Jer 18.
SMITE, v.i. To strike; to collide. The heart melteth and the kness smite together. Nahum 2.
SMITE, n. A blow.
Smiter - SMI'TER, n. One who smites or strikes. I gave my back to the smiters. Isa 50.