Double (a.) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
Double (v. i.) To be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value; to increase or grow to twice as much.
Double (v. i.) To return upon one's track; to turn and go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction.
Double (v. i.) To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false.
Double (v. i.) To set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet.
Double (n.) Twice as much; twice the number, sum, quantity, length, value, and the like.
Double (n.) Among compositors, a doublet (see Doublet, 2.); among pressmen, a sheet that is twice pulled, and blurred.
Double (n.) That which is doubled over or together; a doubling; a plait; a fold.
Double (n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice.
Double (n.) Something precisely equal or counterpart to another; a counterpart. Hence, a wraith.
Double (n.) A player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence; a substitute.
Double (n.) Double beer; strong beer.
Double (n.) 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.
Double (n.) A game between two pairs of players; as, a first prize for doubles.
Double (n.) An old term for a variation, as in Bach's Suites.
Double-acting (a.) Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump.
Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
Double-banked (a.) 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.
Double-barreled (a.) Alt. of -barrelled
-barrelled (a.) Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun.
Double-beat valve () See under Valve.
Double-breasted (a.) Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, a double-breasted coat.
Double-charge (v. t.) To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder.
Double-charge (v. t.) To overcharge.
Double dealer () One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person.
Double dealing () False or deceitful dealing. See Double dealing, under Dealing.
Double-decker (n.) A man-of-war having two gun decks.
Double-decker (n.) A public conveyance, as a street car, with seats on the roof.
Double-dye (v. t.) To dye again or twice over.
Double-dyed (a.) Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely colored; hence; firmly fixed in opinions or habits; as, a double-dyed villain.
Double-ender (n.) A vessel capable of moving in either direction, having bow and rudder at each end.
Double-ender (n.) A locomotive with pilot at each end.
Double-entendre (n.) A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate.
Double-eyed (a.) Having a deceitful look.
Double-faced (a.) Having two faces designed for use; as, a double-faced hammer.
Double-faced (a.) Deceitful; hypocritical; treacherous.
Double first () A degree of the first class both in classics and mathematics.
Double first () One who gains at examinations the highest honor both in the classics and the mathematics.
Double-handed (a.) Having two hands.
Double-handed (a.) Deceitful; deceptive.
Double-headed (a.) Having two heads; bicipital.
Doublehearted (a.) Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous.
Double-hung (a.) Having both sashes hung with weights and cords; -- said of a window.
Double-lock (v. t.) To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security.
Double-milled (a.) Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere.
Doubleminded (a.) Having different minds at different times; unsettled; undetermined.
Doubleness (n.) The state of being double or doubled.
Doubleness (n.) Duplicity; insincerity.
Double-quick (a.) Of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run; as, a double-quick step or march.
Double-quick (n.) Double-quick time, step, or march.
Double-quick (v. i. & t.) To move, or cause to move, in double-quick time.
Doubler (n.) One who, or that which, doubles.
Doubler (n.) An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.
Double-ripper (n.) A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other.
Double-shade (v. t.) To double the natural darkness of (a place).
Doublet (a.) Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple.
Doublet (a.) A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time.
Doublet (a.) A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century.
Doublet (a.) A counterfeit gem, composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color them, and thus giving the appearance of a naturally colored gem. Also, a piece of paste or glass covered by a veneer of real stone.
Doublet (a.) An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
Doublet (a.) Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets.
Doublet (a.) A game somewhat like backgammon.
Doublet (a.) One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.
Doublethreaded (a.) Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
Doublethreaded (a.) Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads.
Double-tongue (n.) Deceit; duplicity.
Double-tongued (a.) Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful.
Double-tonguing (n.) A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.
Doubletree (n.) The bar, or crosspiece, of a carriage, to which the singletrees are attached.
Doublets (n. pl.) See Doublet, 6 and 7.
Doubling (n.) The act of one that doubles; a making double; reduplication; also, that which is doubled.
Doubling (n.) A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice.
Doubling (n.) The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.
Doubling (n.) The process of redistilling spirits, to improve the strength and flavor.
Doubloon (a.) A Spanish gold coin, no longer issued, varying in value at different times from over fifteen dollars to about five. See Doblon in Sup.
Doubly (adv.) In twice the quantity; to twice the degree; as, doubly wise or good; to be doubly sensible of an obligation.
Doubly (adv.) Deceitfully.
Dou/ted (imp. & p. p.) of Doubt
Doubting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doubt
Doubt (v. i.) To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined.
Doubt (v. i.) To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive.
Doubt (v. t.) To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it.
Doubt (v. t.) To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of.
Doubt (v. t.) To fill with fear; to affright.
Doubt (v. i.) A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation.
Doubt (v. i.) Uncertainty of condition.
Doubt (v. i.) Suspicion; fear; apprehension; dread.
Doubt (v. i.) Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point unsettled; objection.
Doubtable (a.) Capable of being doubted; questionable.
Doubtable (a.) Worthy of being feared; redoubtable.
Doubtance (n.) State of being in doubt; uncertainty; doubt.
Doubter (n.) One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples.
Doubtful (a.) Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure.
Doubtful (a.) Admitting of doubt; not obvious, clear, or certain; questionable; not decided; not easy to be defined, classed, or named; as, a doubtful case, hue, claim, title, species, and the like.
Doubtful (a.) Characterized by ambiguity; dubious; as, a doubtful expression; a doubtful phrase.
Doubtful (a.) Of uncertain issue or event.
Doubtful (a.) Fearful; apprehensive; suspicious.
Doubtfully (adv.) In a doubtful manner.
Doubtfulness (n.) State of being doubtful.
Doubtfulness (n.) Uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness.