Shak.
He is the companion of the silliest people in their most silly
pleasure; he is ready for every impertinent entertainment and
diversion.
Law.
Sim"ple (?), n. [F. See Simple, a.] 1. Something not mixed or
compounded. "Compounded of many simples." Shak.
2. (Med.) A medicinal plant; -- so called because each vegetable was
supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute
a simple remedy.
What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked simple itself as it
comes over from the Indies.
Sir W. Temple.
3. (Weaving) (a) A drawloom. (b) A part of the apparatus for raising
the heddles of a drawloom.