SINGHALESE
Sin`gha*lese", n. & a. Etym: [Skr.Si Ceylon.] (Ethnol.)
Defn: Same as Cingalese.
SINGING
Sing"ing, a. & n.
Defn: from Sing, v. Singing bird. (Zoöl.) (a) Popularly, any bird that sings; a song bird. (b) Specifically, any one of the Oscines. — Singing book, a book containing music for singing; a book of tunes. — Singing falcon or hawk. (Zoöl.) See Chanting falcon, under Chanting. — Singing fish (Zoöl.), a California toadfish (Porichthys porosissimus). — Singing flame (Acoustics), a flame, as of hydrogen or coal gas, burning within a tube and so adjusted as to set the air within the tube in vibration, causing sound. The apparatus is called also chemical harmonicon. — Singing master, a man who teaches vocal music. — Singing school, a school in which persons are instructed in singing.
SINGINGLY
Sing"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: With sounds like singing; with a kind of tune; in a singing tone. G. North (1575).
SINGLE
Sin"gle, a. Etym: [L. singulus, a dim. from the root in simplex
simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See Simple, and cf.
Singular.]
1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. 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.