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English → English (gcide) Definition: Single-cut file Single \Sin"gle\, a. [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. [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] File \File\ (f[imac]l), n. [AS. fe['o]l; akin to D. viji, OHG. f[=i]la, f[=i]hala, G. feile, Sw. fil, Dan. fiil, cf. Icel. [thorn][=e]l, Russ. pila, and Skr. pi[,c] to cut out, adorn; perh. akin to E. paint.] 1. A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc. [1913 Webster] Note: A file differs from a rasp in having the furrows made by straight cuts of a chisel, either single or crossed, while the rasp has coarse, single teeth, raised by the pyramidal end of a triangular punch. [1913 Webster] 2. Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively. [1913 Webster] Mock the nice touches of the critic's file. --Akenside. [1913 Webster] 3. A shrewd or artful person. [Slang] --Fielding. [1913 Webster] Will is an old file in spite of his smooth face. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] Bastard file, Cross file, etc. See under Bastard, Cross, etc. Cross-cut file, a file having two sets of teeth crossing obliquely. File blank, a steel blank shaped and ground ready for cutting to form a file. File cutter, a maker of files. Second-cut file, a file having teeth of a grade next finer than bastard. Single-cut file, a file having only one set of parallel teeth; a float. Smooth file, a file having teeth so fine as to make an almost smooth surface. [1913 Webster]