simple faced (simplfast)

Having no foliaceous appendages on the snout: applied applied to bats of the family Vespertilionidæ, as distinguished from leaf-nosed, phyllos to mous, or rhinolophine phi bats. W. H. Flower. simple heart; single-hearted; ingenuous. And, as the cageling newly flown returns, The seeming-injured simple - hearted thing Came to her old perch back, and settled there. machine. See machine , Simple matter, the leaf, in bot . , a leaf consisting of a single piece. Simple simple-hearted (sim'pl-härted), ted), a . Having a of an element. - Simple medicine, a medicine consist ing of a single drug. - Simple mode, a mode which is but a variation of a single idea. - Simple nece ity, the nece ity of a proposition whose denial would imply a contradiction; logical nece ity. - Simple number. Same as abstract number (which see, under abstract , 1). - Simple ointment. See ointment. Simple operation, an operation considered apart from others, as an operation the mind apart from accompanying operation of the body simple part, a part which has itself no parts of the same kind. - Simple position, in arith. See position, 7.- Simple power, the power of first matter; pure power. - Simple probation, a probation which involves a single inferential step; one which cannot be analyzed into a succe ion of inferences. - Simple proportion. See proportion. Simple proposition. See proposition. - Simple quadratic, an an equation which contains the unknown quantity only in its square, which is a factor of one of the terms elche general form is Arte Bi Simple quality it to receive the substantial form of the element. Simple quantity, in math.: (a) A quantity expre ible by question, the question whether a thing is, or what it le - Simple ratio, repetend, science, sentence, singularity, strain. See the nouns. - Simple sporophore, in bot., a sporophore consisting of a single hypha or branch of a hypha. De Bary. - Simple time, in anc. pros., a monosemic as opposed to a greater or compound (disemic, trisemic, etc.) time. - Simple trust, in law, a trust not qualified by provisions as to the power or duty of the trustee, so that in general he is a mere pa ive de pository of po e ion or legal title, subject to which the entire right is in the beneficiary. - Simple umbel, in bot., an umbel having but a single set of rays. Símple will, will directed toward an ultimate end, not toward a means. = Syn. 1. Unmixed, elementary. - 2. Unstudied, unvarnished, naïve, frank, open, straightforward. -6. Simple, Silly, Dull, shallow, stupid, preposterous, inept, trifling, frivolous. Of the italicized words, silly is more active; the others are more pa ive. The simple person is not only ignorant or lacking in practical wisdom, but unconscious of his own deficiencies, so that he is peculiarly liable to be duped. That which in the simple is unconsciousne is in the silly an active selfdom by hard experience; the silly have much to unlearn satisfaction or conceit: the simple may be taught wis as well. Silline is a form of folly. (See absurd.) He who is dull has no edge upon his mind; his mind works into a subject with the slowne with which a dull knife of an element, the property of simple matter, single number. A monomial. Simple cuts into a piece of wood, but his mind can perhaps be gradually sharpened, so that the dull boy becomes the keen man. II. n. 1. That which is unmixed or uncompounded; a simple substance or constituent; an element. simples, extracted from many objects. It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many Shak., As you Like it, iv. 1. 16. To these noxious simples we may reduce an infinite number of compound, artificial, made dishes. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 141. 2. A medicinal herb, or a medicine obtained from an herb: so called because each vegetable was supposed to po e its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy: commonly in the plural. I went to see Mr. Wats, keeper of the Apothecaries garden of simples at Chelsea, where there is a collection of innumerable rarities of that sort particularly. Evelyn , Diary, Aug. 7, 1685. Run and fetch simples , With which my mother heal'd my arm when last I was wounded by the boar. Fletcher (and another ), Sea Voyage, ii. 2. 3. A person of low birth or estate: used chief- is ple . [Obsolete or provincial.] composed of different kinds of matter, as an element. Simple enumeration, the colligation of examples upon which to base an induction without the use of any precaution to insure their being representative samples of the cla from which they are drawn, and without preparation for any check upon the correctne of the induction. See induction by simple enumeration, under enumeration. Simple enunciation, epithelium, equation. See the nouns. Simple ethers. See ether1, 3.- Simple event. See event. Simple feast, in the Rom. Cath. Ch., a feast of the lowest cla , the services for which differ very little from the services for ordinary occasions, the other cla es being double and semi - double. - Simple foot, in anc. pros.: (a) According to the earlier rhythmic i ans, a trisemic, tetrasemic, or pent as emic foot, or a hexasemic foot not consist IMG:content-1094.png:[merged small][ocr errors] "I fancy there's too much whispering going on to be of any spiritual use to gentle or simple.". Accordingly there was silence in the gallery. T. Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree, i. 6. 4. pl. Foolish or silly behavior; foolishne : as, to have a fit of the simples. [Colloq.] -5. A draw-loom. [Archaic.] -6. A set of short dependent cords, with terminal bobs, attached to the tail of a part of the harne in a drawloom, worked by the draw-boy.-7. Eccles., a simple feast. To cut for the simples, to cure of foolishne , as if by a surgical operation. [Humorous.] Indeed, Mr. Never out, you should be cut for the simples this morning; say a word more, and you had as good eat your nails. Swift , Polite Conversation, i.