Men . . . commendable when they are singled.
Hooker.
Sin"gle, v. i. To take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of
a horse. See Single- foot.
Many very fleet horses, when overdriven, adopt a disagreeable gait,
which seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the
two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite,
simultaneously. Such horses are said to single, or to be
single-footed.
W. S. Clark.
Sin"gle, n. 1. A unit; one; as, to score a single.
2. pl. The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give
them firmness.