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g ranks of teeth. The horizontal obliquity of the teeth, relatively to the central line of double-cut files, is about 55°, but in single-cut files the inclination is much less, and in some floats the teeth are square across the face of the file. Single-cut file. Sin′gle-flu′id Bat′ter-y. （Electro-magnetism.) A galvanic battery, having but a single fluid, in which the elements are submerged, or by which they are wetted. The original Voltaic pile was the first of this class. Cruikshank was the first to submerge the elements. Babbington and Wollaston had also submerged elements. See gravity-battery; Cal-Laud-battery. The term is in contradistinction to the double-fluid battery, invented by Daniell. Sin′gle-line. （Saddlery.) A single rein leading from the hand of the driver to a strap forked a little behind the hames, and proceeding thence to the bitrings. This is the favorite mode in most parts of the West of driving horses at work on the farm, or w