Simple

Simple
Simple Sim"ple, n. [F. See {Simple}, a.] 1. Something not mixed or compounded. ``Compounded of many simples.'' --Shak. [1913 Webster]

2. (Med.) A medicinal plant; -- so called because each vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy. [1913 Webster]

What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked simple itself as it comes over from the Indies. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster]

3. (Weaving) (a) A drawloom. (b) A part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom. [1913 Webster]

4. (R. C. Ch.) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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