(of a steam engine) Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.
(zoology) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
Without ornamentation; plain.
noun
(Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
(logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
(obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.
(obsolete, by extension) A physician.
(pharmacology) A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
(weaving) A drawloom.
(weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
verb
(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, i.e. medicinal herbs.
sompne
sperma
sperma
noun
Obsolete form of sperm.
sperms
sperms
noun
plural of sperm
spermy
spermy
adj
Covered in or full of ejaculated semen
Resembling or characteristic of sperm.
spirem
spirem
noun
Alternative form of spireme
spumed
spumed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of spume
spumes
spumes
noun
plural of spume
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spume
sumper
sumple
tempos
tempts
tempts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tempt