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- English Word Double Definition To pass around or by; to march or sail round, so as to reverse the direction of motion.
- English Word Double Definition To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
- English Word Double Definition To be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value; to increase or grow to twice as much.
- English Word Double Definition To return upon one's track; to turn and go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction.
- English Word Double Definition To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false.
- English Word Double Definition To set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet.
- English Word Double Definition Twice as much; twice the number, sum, quantity, length, value, and the like.
- English Word Double Definition Among compositors, a doublet (see Doublet, 2.); among pressmen, a sheet that is twice pulled, and blurred.
- English Word Double Definition That which is doubled over or together; a doubling; a plait; a fold.
- English Word Double Definition A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice.
- English Word Double Definition Something precisely equal or counterpart to another; a counterpart. Hence, a wraith.
- English Word Double Definition A player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence; a substitute.
- English Word Double Definition Double beer; strong beer.
- English Word Double Definition A feast in which the antiphon is doubled, hat is, said twice, before and after the Psalms, instead of only half being said, as in simple feasts.
- English Word Double Definition A game between two pairs of players; as, a first prize for doubles.
- English Word Double Definition An old term for a variation, as in Bach's Suites.
- English Word Double dealer Definition One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person.
- English Word Double dealing Definition False or deceitful dealing. See Double dealing, under Dealing.
- English Word Double first Definition A degree of the first class both in classics and mathematics.
- English Word Double first Definition One who gains at examinations the highest honor both in the classics and the mathematics.
- English Word Double-acting Definition Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump.
- English Word Double-bank Definition To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
- English Word Double-banked Definition Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.
- English Word Double-barreled Definition Alt. of -barrelled
- English Word Double-beat valve Definition See under Valve.
- English Word Double-breasted Definition Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, a double-breasted coat.
- English Word Double-charge Definition To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder.
- English Word Double-charge Definition To overcharge.
- English Word Double-decker Definition A man-of-war having two gun decks.
- English Word Double-decker Definition A public conveyance, as a street car, with seats on the roof.