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SIM'PLE, a. L. simplex sine, without and plex, plica, doubling, fold

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

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

3. Artless unaffected unconstrained inartificial plain. In simple manners all the secret lies.

4. Unadorned plain as a simple style or narration a simple dress.

5. Not complex or complicated as a machine of simple construction.

6. Weak in intellect not wise or sagacious silly. The simple believeth every word but the prudent looketh well to his going. Prov. 14.

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.

SIM'PLE, 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.

SIM'PLE, 5 1 To gather simples or plants. As simpling on the flowery hills he stray'd.