SIMPLE

Definitions

1. 1. Something not mixed or compounded. "Compounded of many simples." Shak.
2. 2. A medicinal plant; -- so called because each vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy. What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked simple itself as it comes over from the Indies. Sir W. Temple.
3. 3. A drawloom.
4. 4. A part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
5. 5. A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.