SIGNATURIST — SIMPLICITY NWAD SIGNATURIST.1

SIGNATURIST, n. One who holds to the doctrine of signatures impressed upon objects, indicative of character or qualities. [Little used.] NWAD SIGNATURIST.1

SIGNER, n. One that signs or subscribes his name; as a memorial with a hundred signers. NWAD SIGNER.1

SIGNET, n. A seal; particularly in Great Britain, the seal used by the king in sealing his private letters, and grants that pass by bill under his majesty’s hand. NWAD SIGNET.1

SIGNIFICANCE, SIGNIFICANCY, n. [L. significans. See Signify.] NWAD SIGNIFICANCE.1

1. Meaning; import; that which is intended to be expressed; as the significance of a nod, or of a motion of the hand, or of a word or expression. NWAD SIGNIFICANCE.2

2. Force; energy; power of impressing the mind; as a duty enjoined with particular significance. NWAD SIGNIFICANCE.3

3. Importance; moment; weight; consequence. Many a circumstance of less significancy has been construed into an event act of high treason. NWAD SIGNIFICANCE.4

SIGNIFICANT, a. [L. signigicans.] NWAD SIGNIFICANT.1

1. Expressive of something beyond the external mark. NWAD SIGNIFICANT.2

2. Bearing a meaning; expressing or containing signification of sense; as a significant word or sound; a significant look. NWAD SIGNIFICANT.3

3. Betokening something; standing as a sign of something. It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient. NWAD SIGNIFICANT.4

4. Expressive or representative of some fact or event, The passover among the Jews was significant of the escape of the Israelites from the destruction which fell on the Egyptians. The bread and wine in the sacrament are significant of the body and blood of Christ. NWAD SIGNIFICANT.5

5. Important; momentous. [Not in use.] NWAD SIGNIFICANT.6

SIGNIFICANTLY, adv. NWAD SIGNIFICANTLY.1

1. With meaning. NWAD SIGNIFICANTLY.2

2. With force of expression. NWAD SIGNIFICANTLY.3

SIGNIFICATION, n. [L. significatio. See Signify.] NWAD SIGNIFICATION.1

1. The act of making known, or of communicating ideas to another by signs or by words, by any thing that is understood, particularly by words. All speaking, or signification of one’s mind, implies an act or address of one man to another. NWAD SIGNIFICATION.2

2. Meaning; that which is understood to be intended by a sign, character, mark or word; that idea or sense of a sign, mar, word or expression which the person using it intends to convey, or that which men in general who use it, understand it to convey. The signification of words was originally arbitrary, and is dependent on usage. But when custom has annexed a certain sense to a letter or sound, or to a combination of letters or sounds, this sense is always to be considered the signification which the person using the word intends to communicate. So by custom, certain signs or gestures have a determinate signification. Such is the fact also with figures, algebraic character, etc. NWAD SIGNIFICATION.3

SIGNIFICATIVE, a. NWAD SIGNIFICATIVE.1

1. Betokening or representing by an external sign; as the significative symbols of the eucharist. NWAD SIGNIFICATIVE.2

2. Having signification or meaning; expressive of a certain idea or thing. Neither in the degrees of kindred were they destitute of significative words. NWAD SIGNIFICATIVE.3

SIGNIFICATIVELY, adv. So as represent or express by an external sign. NWAD SIGNIFICATIVELY.1

SIGNIFICATOR, n. That which signifies. NWAD SIGNIFICATOR.1

SIGNIFICATORY, n. That which betokens, signifies or represents. NWAD SIGNIFICATORY.1

SIGNIFY, v.t. [L. significo; signum, a sign, and facio, to make.] NWAD SIGNIFY.1

1. To make known something, either by signs or words; to express or communicate to another any idea, thought, wish, a hod, wink, gesture, signal or other sign. A man signifies his mind by his voice or by written characters; he may signify his mind by a nod or other motion, provided the person to whom he directs it, understands what is intend by it. A general or an admiral signifies his commands by signals to officers as a distance. NWAD SIGNIFY.2

2. To mean; to have or contain a certain sense. The word sabbath signifies rest. Less, in composition, as in faithless, signifies destitution or want. The prefix re, in recommend, seldom signifies any thing. NWAD SIGNIFY.3

3. To import; to weigh; to have consequence; used in particular phrases; as, it signifies much or little; it signifies nothing. What does it signify? What signify the splendors of a court? Confession of sin without reformation of life, can signify nothing in the view of God. NWAD SIGNIFY.4

4. To make known; to declare. The government should signify to the protestants of Ireland that want of silver is not to be remedied. NWAD SIGNIFY.5

SIGNIFY, v.i. To express meaning with force. [Little used.] NWAD SIGNIFY.6

SIGNIOR, n. A title of respect among the Italians. [See Seignior.] NWAD SIGNIOR.1

SIGNORIZE, v.i. To exercise dominion; or to have dominion. [Little used.] NWAD SIGNORIZE.1

SIGNORY, n. A different, but less common spelling of seigniory, which see. It signifies lordship, dominion, and in Shakespeare, seniority. NWAD SIGNORY.1

SIGN-POST, n. A post on which a sign hangs, or on which papers are placed to give public notice of any thing. By the laws of some of the New England states, a sign-post is to be erected near the center of each town. NWAD SIGN-POST.1

SIK, SIKE, a. Such. NWAD SIK.1

SIKER, a. or adv. Sure; surely. [See Sicker.] NWAD SIKER.1

SIKERNESS, n. Sureness safety. NWAD SIKERNESS.1

SILENCE, n. [L. silentium, from sileo, to be still.] NWAD SILENCE.1

1. In a general sense, stillness, or entire absence of sound or noise; as the silence of midnight. NWAD SILENCE.2

2. In animals, the state of holding the peace; forbearance of speech in man, or of noise in other animals. I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, even from good. Psalm 39:2. NWAD SILENCE.3

3. Habitual taciturnity; opposed to loquacity. NWAD SILENCE.4

4. Secrecy. These things were transacted in silence. NWAD SILENCE.5

5. Stillness; calmness; quiet; cessation of rage, agitation or tumult; as the elements reduced to silence. NWAD SILENCE.6

6. Absence of mention; oblivion, Eternal silence be their doom. And what most merits fame, in silence hid. NWAD SILENCE.7

7. Silence, in used elliptically for let there be silence, an injunction to keep silence. NWAD SILENCE.8

SILENCE, v.t. NWAD SILENCE.9

1. To oblige to hold the peace; to restrain from noise or speaking. NWAD SILENCE.10

2. To still; to quiet; to restrain; to appease. This would silence all further opposition. These would have silenced their scruples. NWAD SILENCE.11

3. To stop; as, to silence complaints or clamor. NWAD SILENCE.12

4. To still; to cause to cease firing; as, to silence guns or a battery. NWAD SILENCE.13

5. To restrain from preaching by revoking a license to preach; as, to silence a minister of the gospel. The Rev. Thomas Hooker, of Chelmsford in Essex, was silenced for non-conformity. NWAD SILENCE.14

6. To put an end to; to cause to cease. The question between agriculture and commerce has received a decision which has silenced the rivalships between them. NWAD SILENCE.15

SILENT, a. NWAD SILENT.1

1. Not speaking; mute. Psalm 22:2. NWAD SILENT.2

2. Habitually taciturn; speaking little; not inclined to much talking; not loquacious. Ulysses, he adds was the most eloquent and most silent of men. NWAD SILENT.3

3. Still; having not noise; as the silent watches of the night; the silent groves; all was silent. NWAD SILENT.4

4. Not operative; wanting efficacy. NWAD SILENT.5

5. Not mentioning; not proclaiming. This new created world, of which in hell Fame is not silent. NWAD SILENT.6

6. Calm; as, the winds were silent. NWAD SILENT.7

7. Not acting; not transacting business in person; as a silent partner in a commercial house. NWAD SILENT.8

8. Hot pronounced; having no sound; as, e is silent in fable. NWAD SILENT.9

SILENTIARY, n. One appointed to keep silence and order in court; one sworn not to divulge secrets of state. NWAD SILENTIARY.1

SILENTLY, adv. NWAD SILENTLY.1

1. Without speech or words. Each silently demands thy grace, and seems to watch thy eye. NWAD SILENTLY.2

2. without noise; as, to march silently. NWAD SILENTLY.3

3. Without mention. He mentioned other difficulties, but this he silently passed over. NWAD SILENTLY.4

SILENTNESS, n. State of being silent; stillness; silence. NWAD SILENTNESS.1

SILISIA, n. sile’zha. A duchy or country now chiefly belonging to Prussia; hence, a species of linen cloth so called; thin coarse linen. NWAD SILISIA.1

SILESIAN, a. sile’zhan Pertaining to Silesia; mad in Silesia; as silesian linen. NWAD SILESIAN.1

SILEX, SILCIA, n. One of the supposed primitive earths m usually found in the state of stone. When pure, it is perfectly white or colorless. The purer sorts are mountain crystal and quartz. Recent experiments prove this to be a compound substance, the base of which is a metal called silicium. Silica then is an oxyd of silicium. NWAD SILEX.1

SILICE, SILICULE, SILICLE, n. [L. silicula, a little husk.] In botany, a little pod or bivalvular pericarp, with seeds attached to both sutures. NWAD SILICE.1

SILICICALCARIOUS, a. Consisting of silex and calcarious matter. NWAD SILICICALCARIOUS.1

SILICICALCE, n. [L. silex or silica and calx.] A mineral of the silicious kind, occurring in amorphous masses; its color is gray or brown. NWAD SILICICALCE.1

SILICIFEROUS, a. [L. silex and fero, to produce.] Producing silex; or united with a portion of silex. NWAD SILICIFEROUS.1

SILICIFY, v.t. [L. silex, flint, and facio, to make.] To convert into silex. The specimens found near Philadelphia are completely silicified. NWAD SILICIFY.1

SILICIFY, v.i. To become silex. NWAD SILICIFY.2

SILICIMURITE, n. An earth composed of silex and magnesia. NWAD SILICIMURITE.1

SILICIOUS, a. Pertaining to silex, or partaking of its nature and qualities. NWAD SILICIOUS.1

SILICITED, a. Impregnated with silex. NWAD SILICITED.1

SILICIUM, n. The undecomposed and perhaps undecomposable base of silex or silica. NWAD SILICIUM.1

SILICULOUS, a. Havin silicles or little pods, or pertaining to them. NWAD SILICULOUS.1

SILING-DISH, n. A colander. [Not in use.] NWAD SILING-DISH.1

SILIQUA, n. [L.] With gold finers, a carat, six of which make a scruple. NWAD SILIQUA.1

SILIQUA, SILIQUE, n. [L. siliqua.] A pod; an oblong, membranaceous, bivalvular pericarp, having the seeds fixed to both sutures. NWAD SILIQUA.2

SILIQUOSE, SILIQUOUS, n. [L. siliquosus.] Having that species of pericarp called silique; as siliquous plants. NWAD SILIQUOSE.1

SILK, n. NWAD SILK.1

1. The fine soft thread produced by the insect called silk-worm or bombyx. That which we ordinarily call silk, is a thread composed of several finer threads which the worm draws from its bowels, like the web of a spider, and with which the silk-worm envelopes itself, forming what is called a cocoon. NWAD SILK.2

2. Cloth made of silk. In this sense, the word has a plural, silks, denoting different sort and varieties, as black silk, white silk, colored silks. NWAD SILK.3

3. The filiform style of the female flower of maiz, which resembles real silk in fineness and softness. Virginia silk, a plant of the genus Periploca, which climbs and winds about other plants, trees, etc. NWAD SILK.4

SILK, a. Pertaining to silk; consisting of silk. NWAD SILK.5

SILK COTTEN-TREE, n. A tree of the genus Bombax, growing to an immense size; a native of both the Indies. NWAD SILK_COTTEN-TREE.1

SILKEN, a. silk’n. NWAD SILKEN.1

1. Made of silk; as silken cloth; a silken vail. NWAD SILKEN.2

2. Like silk; soft to the touch. NWAD SILKEN.3

3. Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as mild and silken language. NWAD SILKEN.4

4. Dressed in silk; as a silken wanton. NWAD SILKEN.5

SILKEN, v.t. silk’n. To render soft or smooth. NWAD SILKEN.6

SILKINESS, n. NWAD SILKINESS.1

1. The qualities of silk; softness and smoothness to the feel. NWAD SILKINESS.2

2. Softness; effeminacy; pusillanimity. NWAD SILKINESS.3

SILKMAN, n. A dealer in silks. NWAD SILKMAN.1

SILKMERCER, n. One whose occupation is to weave silk stuffs. NWAD SILKMERCER.1

SILKWORM, n. The worm which produces silk, of the genus Phalaena. Silk-worms are said to have been first introduced into the Roman empire from China, in the reign of Justinian. NWAD SILKWORM.1

SILKY, a. NWAD SILKY.1

1. Made of silk; consisting of silk. NWAD SILKY.2

2. Like silk; soft and smooth to the touch. NWAD SILKY.3

3. Pliant; yielding; NWAD SILKY.4

SILL, n. [L. solum; allied to solid. The primary sense is probably to lay, set or throw down.] NWAD SILL.1

1. Properly, the basis of foundationof a thing; appropriately, a piece of timber on which a building rests; the lowest timber of any stucture; as the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom and the like. NWAD SILL.2

2. The timber or stone at the foot of a door; the threshhold. NWAD SILL.3

3. The timber or stone on which a window frame stands; or the lowest piece in a window frame. NWAD SILL.4

4. The shaft or thill of a carriage. [Local.] NWAD SILL.5

SILLABUB, n. A liquor made by mixing wine or cider with milk, and thus forming a soft curd. NWAD SILLABUB.1

SILLIMANITE, n. A mineral found at Saybrook in Connecticut, so named in honor of Prof, Silliman of Yale College. It occurs in long, slender, rhombic prisms, engaged in gneiss. Its color is dark gray and hair brown; luster shining upon the external planes, but brilliant and pseudometallic upon those produced by cleavage in a direction parallel with the longer diagonal of the prism. Hardness about the same with quartz. Specific gravity, 3.410. NWAD SILLIMANITE.1

SILLINESS, n. Weakness of understanding; want of sound sense or judgment; simplicity; harmless folly. NWAD SILLINESS.1

SILLY, a. [Heb. This may be radically the same word, with a prefix. Class Sl. No. 26] NWAD SILLY.1

1. Weak in intellect; foolish; witless; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; simple; as a silly man; a silly child. NWAD SILLY.2

2. Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness of folly; unwise; as silly thoughts; silly actions; a silly scheme; writings stupid or silly. NWAD SILLY.3

3. Weak; helpless. After long storms- With which my silly bark was toss’d NWAD SILLY.4

SILLYHOW, n. The membrane that covers the head of the fetus. [I believe not used.] NWAD SILLYHOW.1

SILT, n. Saltness, or salt marsh or mud. NWAD SILT.1

SILURE, SILURUS, n. The sheat-fish; also a name of the sturgeon. NWAD SILURE.1

SILVAN, a. [L. silva, a wood or grove, It is also written sylvan] NWAD SILVAN.1

1. Pertaining to a wood or grove; inhabiting woods. NWAD SILVAN.2

2. Woody; abounding with woods. Betwixt two rows of rocks, a silvan scene. NWAD SILVAN.3

SILVAN, n. Another name of tellurium. NWAD SILVAN.4

SILVER, n. NWAD SILVER.1

1. A metal of a white color and lively brilliancy. It has neither taste nor smell; its specific gravity is 10.552, according to Bergman, but according to Kirwan it is less. A cubic foot weighs about 660 lbs. Its ductility is little inferior to that of gold. It is harder and more elastic that tin of iron. It is found native in thin plates or leaves, or in fine threads, or it is found mieralized by various substances. Great quanitities of the metal are furnished by the mines of South America, and it is found in small quantities in Norway, Germany, Spain, the United State, etc. NWAD SILVER.2

2. Money; coin made of silver. NWAD SILVER.3

3. Any thing of soft splendor. Pallas-piteous of her plaintive cries, In slumber clos’d her silver-streaming eyes. NWAD SILVER.4

SILVER, a. NWAD SILVER.5

1. Made of silver; as a silver cup. NWAD SILVER.6

2. White like silver; as silver hair. Others on silver lakes and rivers bath’d Their downy breast. NWAD SILVER.7

3. White, or pale; of a pale luster; as the silver moon. NWAD SILVER.8

4. SOft; as a silver voice or sound. NWAD SILVER.9

SILVER, v.t. NWAD SILVER.10

1. To cover superficially with a coat of silver; as, to silver a pin or a dialplate. NWAD SILVER.11

2. To foliate; to cover with tinfoil amalgamated with quicksilver; as, to silver glass. NWAD SILVER.12

3. To adorn with mild luster; to make smooth and bright. And smiling calmness silver’d o’er the deep. NWAD SILVER.13

4. To make hoary. His head was silver’d o’er with age. NWAD SILVER.14

SILVER-BEATER, n. One that foliates silver, or forms it into a leaf. NWAD SILVER-BEATER.1

SILVER-BUSH, n. A plant, a species of Anthyllis. NWAD SILVER-BUSH.1

SILVERED, pp. Covered with a thin coat of silver; rendered smooth and lustrous; made white or a hoary. NWAD SILVERED.1

SILVER-FIR, n. A species of fir. NWAD SILVER-FIR.1

SILVER-FISH, n. A fish of the size of a small carp, having a white color, striped with silvery lines. NWAD SILVER-FISH.1

SILVERING, ppr. Covering the surface with a thin coat of silver; foliating; rendering mildly lustrous; rendering white. NWAD SILVERING.1

SILVERING, n. The art, operation or practice of covering the surface of any thing with silver; as the silvering of copper or brass. NWAD SILVERING.2

SILVERING, n. A silver coin. Isaiah 7:23. NWAD SILVERING.3

SILVERLY, adv. With the appearance of silver. NWAD SILVERLY.1

SILVERSMITH, n. One whose occupation is to work’in silver, or in manufactures of which the precious metals form a part. NWAD SILVERSMITH.1

SILVER-THISTLE, n. A plant. NWAD SILVER-THISTLE.1

SILVER-TREE, n. A plant of the genus Protea. NWAD SILVER-TREE.1

SILVER-WEED, n. A plant of the genus Potentilla. NWAD SILVER-WEED.1

SILVERY, a. NWAD SILVERY.1

1. Like silver; having the appearance of silver; white; of a mild luster. Of all the enameled race whose silvery wing Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring. NWAD SILVERY.2

2. Besprinkled or covered with silver. NWAD SILVERY.3

SIMAGRE, n. Grimace. NWAD SIMAGRE.1

SIMAR, SIMARE, n. A woman’s robe. [Not in use.] NWAD SIMAR.1

SIMILAR, a. [L. similis; Gr. omaloV.] Like; resembling; having a like form or appearance. Similar may signify exactly alike, or having a general likeness, a likeness in the principal points. Things perfectly similar, in their nature, must be of the same essence, or homogeneous; but we generally understand similar to denote a likeness that is not perfect. Many of the statutes of Connecticut are similar to the statutes of Massachusetts on the same subjects. The manners of the several states of New England are similar, the people being derived from common ancestors. NWAD SIMILAR.1

SIMILARITY, n. Likeness; resemblance; as a similarity of features. There is a as a similarity in the features of the Laplanders and Samoiedes, but little similarity between the features of Europeans and the woolly haired Africans. NWAD SIMILARITY.1

SIMILARLY, adv. In like manner; with resemblance. NWAD SIMILARLY.1

SIMILE, n. sim’ily. [L.] In rhetoric, similitude; a comparison of two thing which, however different in other respects, have some strong point or points of resemblance; by which comparison, the character or qualities of a thing are illustrated or presented in an impressive light. Thus, the eloquence of Demosthenes was like a rapid torrent; that of Cicero, like a large stream that glides smoothly along with majestic tranquility. NWAD SIMILE.1

SIMILITUDE, n. [L. similitudo.] NWAD SIMILITUDE.1

1. Likeness; resemblance; likeness in nature, qualities of appearance; as similitude of substance. Let us make man in our image, man in our similitude. Fate some future bard shall join in sad similitude of griefs to mine. NWAD SIMILITUDE.2

2. Comparison; simile. Tasso, in his similitude, never departed from the woods. [See Simile.] NWAD SIMILITUDE.3

SIMILITUDINARY, a. Denoting resemblance or comparison. NWAD SIMILITUDINARY.1

SIMILOR, n. A name given to an alloy of red copper and zinc, made in the best proportions to imitate silver and gold. NWAD SIMILOR.1

SIMITAR. [See Cimiter.] NWAD SIMITAR.1

SIMMER, v.i. [Gr. zumhm, zumow, to ferment.] To boil gently, or with a gentle hissing. Simmering is incipient ebullition, when little bubbles are formed on the edge of the liquor, next to the vessel. These are occasioned by the escape of heat and vapor. NWAD SIMMER.1

SIMMERING, ppr. Boiling gently; NWAD SIMMERING.1

SIMNEL, n. A kind of sweet cake; a bun. NWAD SIMNEL.1

SIMONIAC, n. [See Simony.] One who buys or sells preferment in the church. NWAD SIMONIAC.1

SIMONIACAL, a. NWAD SIMONIACAL.1

1. Guilty of simony. NWAD SIMONIACAL.2

2. Consisting in simony, or the crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; as a simoniacal presentation. NWAD SIMONIACAL.3

SIMOIACALLY, adv. With the guilt or offense of simony. NWAD SIMOIACALLY.1

SIMONIOUS, a. Partaking of simony; given to simony. NWAD SIMONIOUS.1

SIMONY, n. [from Simon Magus, who wished to purchase the power of conferring the Holy Spirit. Acts 8:18.] The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; or the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice of money or reward. By Stat. 31 Elizabeth, c. 6. severe penalties are enacted against this crime. NWAD SIMONY.1

SIMOOM, n. A hot suffocating wind, that blows occasionally in Africa and Arabia, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains. Its approach is indicated by a redness in the air, and its fatal effects are to be avoided by falling on the face and holding the breath. NWAD SIMOOM.1

SIMOUS, a. [L. simo, one with a flat nose, Gr. simoV.] NWAD SIMOUS.1

1. Having a very flat or snub nose, with the end turned up. NWAD SIMOUS.2

2. Concave; as the simous part of the liver. NWAD SIMOUS.3

SIMPER, v.i. To smile in a silly manner. NWAD SIMPER.1

SIMPER, n. To smile with an air of silliness. NWAD SIMPER.2

SIMPERING, ppr. Smiling foolishly. NWAD SIMPERING.1

SIMPERING, n. The act of smiling with an air of silliness. NWAD SIMPERING.2

SIMPERINGLY, adv. With a silly smile. NWAD SIMPERINGLY.1

SIMPLE, a. [L. simplex; sine, without and plex, plica, doubling, fold;] NWAD SIMPLE.1

1. Single; consisting of one thing; uncompounded; unmingled; uncombined with any thing else; as a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound. NWAD SIMPLE.2

2. Plain; artless; not given to design, stratagem or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; harmless. A simple husbandman in garments gray. NWAD SIMPLE.3

3. Artless; unaffected; unconstrained; inartificial; plain. In simple manners all the secret lies. NWAD SIMPLE.4

4. Unadorned; plain; as a simple style or narration; a simple dress. NWAD SIMPLE.5

5. Not complex or complicated; as a machine of simple construction. NWAD SIMPLE.6

6. Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; silly. The simple believeth every word; but the prudent looketh well to his going. Proverbs 14:15. NWAD SIMPLE.7

7. In botany, undivided, as a root, stem or spike; only one on a petiole, as a simple leaf; only one on a peduncle, as a simple flower; having only one set of rays, as an umbel; having only one row of leaflets, as a simple calyx; not plumose or fathered, as a pappus. A simple body, in chemisty, is one that has not been decomposed, or separated into two or more bodies. NWAD SIMPLE.8

SIMPLE, n. Something not mixed or compounded. in the materia medica, the genral denomination of an herb or plant. as each vegetable is supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy. NWAD SIMPLE.9

SIMPLE, v.i. To gather simples or plants. As simpling on the flowery hills he stray’d. NWAD SIMPLE.10

SIMPLE-MINDED, a. Artless; undesigning; unsuspecting. NWAD SIMPLE-MINDED.1

SIMPLENESS, n. NWAD SIMPLENESS.1

1. The state or quality of being simple, single or uncompounded; as the simpleness of the elements. NWAD SIMPLENESS.2

2. Artlessness; simplicity; NWAD SIMPLENESS.3

3. Weakness of intellect. NWAD SIMPLENESS.4

SIMPLER, n. One that collects simples; as herbalist; asimplist. NWAD SIMPLER.1

SIMPLESS, for simplicity or silliness, is not in use. NWAD SIMPLESS.1

SIMPLETON, n. A silly person; a person of weak intellect; a trifler; a foolish person. NWAD SIMPLETON.1

SIMPLICAIN, n. An artless, unskilled or undesigning person. [Not in use.] NWAD SIMPLICAIN.1

SIMPLICITY, n. [L. simplicitas.] NWAD SIMPLICITY.1

1. Singleness; the state of being unmixed or uncompounded; as the simplicity of metals or of earths. NWAD SIMPLICITY.2

2. The state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as the simplicity of a machine. NWAD SIMPLICITY.3

3. Artlessness of mind; freedom from a propensity to cunning or stratagem; freedom from duplicity; sincerity. Marquis Dorset, a man for his harmless simplicity neither misliked nor much regarded. NWAD SIMPLICITY.4

4. Plainness; freedom from artificial ornament; as the simplicity of a dress, of style, of language, etc. Simplicity in writing is the first or excellences. NWAD SIMPLICITY.5

5. Plainness; freedom from subtilty or abstruseness; as the simplicity of scriptural doctrines or truth. NWAD SIMPLICITY.6

6. Weakness of intellect; silliness. Godly simplicity, in Scriptures, is a fair open profession and practice of evangelical truth, with a single view to obedience and to the glory of God. NWAD SIMPLICITY.7