double-biting 
double-biting (dub '1-bi* ting), a. Biting or 
cutting on either side: as, a double-biting ax. 
l>ri/ilcn. [Hare.] 
double-bitt (dub'1-bit), v. t. Naut,, to pass, as 
a cable, round another bitt besides its own, or 
give it two turns round the bitts, so that it will 
be more securely fastened. 
double-bodied (dub'l-bod''id), a. Having two 
bodies. Double-bodied microscope. Sec microscope. 
Double-bodied signs, in astrot. , the four zodiacal signs 
Gemini, Virgo, Sii^iUiirius, and Pisces. 
double-breasted (dub'l-bres'ted), a. Made 
alike on both sides of the breast, as a coat or 
waistcoat having two rows of buttons and but- 
tonholes, so that it may be buttoned on either 
side. 
He wore a pair of plaid trousers, and a large rongh 
double-breasted waistcoat. Dickens. 
double-breather (dub'l-bre'THer), n. An am- 
phirhine animal, or one which breathes through 
two nostrils; one of the Amphirhina (which 
see), or any vertebrate above the Monorhina. 
Haeckel. 
double-brooded (dub'l-bro'ded), a. Inentom., 
having two broods annually: applied to those 
species which have two generations during the 
year, one brood generally appearing in the 
spring and the other in the autumn. 
double-charge (dub'l-charj'), v. t. To charge, 
intrust, or distinguish with a double portion. 
Master Robert Shallow, choose what office thou wilt in 
the land, 'tis thine. Pistol, I wiil double-charge thee with 
dignities. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., v. 3. 
double-concave (dub'l-kon'kav), a. Same as 
concavo-concave. 
double-cone (dub'1-kon'), a. In arch., consist- 
Double-conc Molding. Stoneleigh Church. Warwickshire, England. 
ing of cones joined base to base and apex to 
apex, as a Romanesque style of molding. 
double-convex (dub'l-kon'veks), a. Same as 
convexo-convex. 
double-crown (dub'l-kroun'), n. A gold coin 
of the value of 10 or 11 shillings, current in Eng- 
Doublc-crown of James 1., in the British Museum. 
( Size of the original. ) 
land in the seventeenth century. It was first 
issued by James I. 
double-darken (dub'l-dar'kn), v. t. To make 
doubly dark or gloomy. [Rare.] 
When clouds arise 
Such natures double-darken gloomy skies. 
LoweU, To O. W. Curtis. 
double-dealer (dub'l-de'ler), n. One who acts 
two different parts in the same business or at 
the same time ; one who professes one thing 
and intends another ; one guilty of duplicity. 
Well, T will be -so much a sinner to be a double dealer. 
Shak., T. N., v. 1. 
double-dealing (dub'l-de'ling), . and a. I. 
n. Duplicity; deceitful practice; the profes- 
sion of one thing and the practice of another. 
David, now satisfied as to the priests, thought he owed 
to the Abuna a mortification for his double-dealing. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 590. 
The affairs of the universe are not carried on after a sys- 
tem of benign double-dealing. 
U. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 613. 
II. a. Given to duplicity; artful; treacherous. 
There were parsons at Oxford as double-dealing and dan- 
gerous as any priests out of Koine. Thackeray, 
double-decker (dub'l-dek'er), n. 1. A ship 
with two decks above the water-line. 2. A 
street-car having a second floor and seats on 
top. 3. A freight- or cattle-car with two floors. 
4. A steam-boiler with two tiers of firing- 
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chambers. 6. A tenement-house having two 
families on one floor: so termed by the police 
of New York city. 
double d'or (do'bl ddr). A kind of French 
jewelry, formed from a plate of gold soldered 
upon a copper plate eleven times as thick. 
The compound plate thus formed is rolled thin 
and made into any desired shape. 
double-dye (dub'l-dl), v. t. To dye twice over. 
double-dyed (dub'1-did), p. o. 1. Twice dyed. 
Hence 2. Deeply imbued, as with guilt; 
thorough; complete: as, a double-dyed villain. 
double-dyeing (dub'l-di'ing), n. A method 
of dyeing mixed woolen and cotton goods, by 
which the wool is first dyed with a color which 
has no affinity for cotton, after which the cot- 
ton is dyed with some color having no affinity 
for wool. 
double-eafle (dub'1-e'gl), . 1. A gold coin 
of the United States, worth two eagles or 820, 
or 4 2s. 2d. English money. 2. The heraldic 
representation of an eagle with two heads, as 
in the national arms of Russia and Austria. It 
is the ancient emblem of the Byzantine and 
Holy Roman empires. 
double-edged (dub'1-ejd), a. 1. Having two 
edges. 
" Your Delphic sword," the panther then replied, 
" Is double -edged, and cuts on either side." 
Dryden, Hind and Panther, 111. 192. 
2. Figuratively, cutting or working both ways : 
applied to an argument which makes both for 
and against the person employing it, or to any 
statement having a double meaning. 
Double-edged as Is the argument from rudimentary or- 
gans, there Is probably none which has produced a greater 
effect in promoting the general acceptance of the theory 
of evolution. Huxley, Evolution in Biology. 
double-ender (dub'l-n'der), n. 1. Anything 
with two ends alike, as a boat designed to move 
forward or backward with equal ease. 
Two ships, the Peruvian corvette "America "and the 
United States double-ender " Wateree," were carried [by a 
great sea-wave] nearly half a mile to the north of Arica, 
beyond the railroad which runs to Tacua, and there left 
stranded high and dry. 
R. A. Proctor, Light Science, p. 219. 
It may be styled a double-ender spear, for each extrem- 
ity of it is pointed In an Identical manner. 
AHO'I: Antiquarian, IX. 370. 
2. A cross-cut sawing-machine, with a pair of 
adjustable circular saws, for equalizing pieces 
of stuff by sawing both ends at once. 
double entendre (do'bl on-ton'dr). [F. dou- 
ble, double, and entendre, to understand, used 
in the sense of entente, meaning, sense. The 
French has no such phrase ; its nearest equiva- 
lent is mot a double entente, a word or phrase of 
double sense, for which the E. phrase seems a 
blundering substitute, with modified meaning.] 
A word or phrase with two meanings, or ad- 
mitting of two interpretations, one of which is 
usually obscure or indelicate. 
The French know no such expression as double entendre, 
the nearest approach to it being double entente, a double 
meaning : which is, however, wholly devoid of the ulterior 
significance attached to double entendre. Saturday Rev. 
Double entendre, whether right or wrong, has been nat- 
uralized in English, and will be found in many of the best 
dictionaries. Had I lieen writing in French, I should have 
used double entente. If. and Q., 7th ser., IV. 87. 
double-eyed (dub'l-id), a. Watching in all di- 
rections ; having keen sight. 
Prevelie he (the kid) peeped out through a chinck, 
Yet not so preville buf the Foxe him spyed ; 
For deceit full meaning is double eyed. 
Spemer, Shep. Cal., May. 
double-face (dub'1-fas), . Duplicity; insin- 
cerity; hypocrisy. 
double-faced (dub'1-fast), a. 1. Having two 
faces or aspects : as, the double-faced god Janus. 
Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouth'd, 
And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds. 
Milton, 8. A., 1. 971. 
2. Having both surfaces finished, so that either 
may be used as the right side : as, a double- 
faced cloth, shawl, or other fabric. 3. Deceit- 
ful ; hypocritical ; practising duplicity. 
O Lord, I am sure Mr. Sneer has more taste and sin- 
cerity than to A damn'd double-faced fellow ! 
Sheridan, The Critic, 1. 1. 
A man decided, unscrupulous, and energetic : a double- 
faced, but not a double-minded man (Warwick!. 
R. W. Dixon, Hist. Church of Eng., xvii. 
double-facedness (dub'1-fa'sed-nes), n. The 
state of being double-faced ; duplicity. 
\Ve accustom ourselves and our children to live under 
this double-faced morality, which is hypocrisy, and to 
conciliate our double-facedness by sophistry. 
nineteenth Century, XXI. 251. 
double-nostriled 
double-first (dub'l-fersf), n. In Oxford Uni- 
versity: (a) One who gains the highest place 
in the examinations in both classics and math- 
ematics. 
The Calendar does not show an average of two Double 
First! annually for the last ten years, out of one hundred 
and thirty-eight graduates in Honors and more tlinti twice 
that number of graduate* altogether. 
C. A. Brw//,T5ngllsh University, p. 120. 
(6) The degree itself: as, he took a double-Jir*i 
at Oxford. 
double-flowered (dub'l-flou'erd), . Having 
double flowers, as a plant. 
double-footed (dub'l-fut'ed). . Diplopod: 
applied to those myriapods (the chiloguaths) 
which have two pairs of limbs to each segment 
of the body that is, the round centipeds. 
double-gear (dub'1-ger'), In mach., the gear- 
ing attached to the headstock of a lathe to 
vary its speed. 
double-gild (dub'1-gild), v. t. To gild with 
double coatings of gold ; hence, to gloze over ; 
cover up by flattery or cajolement. 
England shall dmible gild his treble guilt. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., IT. . 
double-handed (dub'l-han'ded), a. 1. Hav- 
ing two hands. 2f. Double-dealing; deceitful. 
Glanville. 
double-headed (dub'l-hed'ed), a. 1. Having 
two heads : as, a double-headed eagle in a coat 
of arms. 2. Supposed to have two heads: as, 
the double-headed serpent (the amphisbeena). 
double-header (dub'l-hed'er), 71. A railroad- 
train drawn by two engines, or pulled by one 
engine and pushed by another. [Colloq., U.S.] 
A freight engine dashed into the rear of the train, crush- 
ing the ends of nearly all the cars on the train, as well a." 
damaging the second engine, the train being a double- 
header. Philadelphia Ledger, Dec. 30, 1887. 
double-hearted (dub'l-har'ted), a. False at 
heart; deceitful; treacherous. 
double-hung (dub'1-hung), a. In arch., beins: 
both suspended so as to move upward or down- 
ward : said of the two sashes of a window pro- 
vided with cords, pulleys, and weights. 
double-lock (dub'1-lok), . t. 1 . To fasten with 
two bolts; secure with double fastenings. 2. 
To lock by turning the key twice, as in some 
forms of lock. 
double-lunged (dub'l-lungd), .' Having two 
lungs : specifically applied to the Diviieumones. 
double-man (dub 1-man), n. In the iJniversity 
of Cambridge, one proficient both in mathe- 
matics and in classics. Compare double-first. 
double-manned (dub'1-mand), . Furnished 
with twice the complement of men, or with two 
men instead of one. 
double-meaning (dub'l-me'ning), . Having 
or conveying two meanings; misleading; de- 
ceitful. 
He has deceived me, like a double-meaning prophesler. 
Shak., All's Well, Iv. 3. 
double-milled (dub'1-mild), a. Twice milled 
or fulled, as cloth, to make it finer. 
double-minded (dub'l-min'ded), a. Waver- 
ing; unstable; unsettled; undetermined. 
A double-minded man is unstable in all his wnys. 
Jas. i. 8. 
double-mindedness (dub'1-min'ded-nes), . 
Indecision; inconstancy; instability, 
double-natured (dub'l-na'turd), a. Having a 
twofold nature. 
Two kinds of life hath double-natured man, 
And two-of death. Youny, Night Thoughts. 
doubleness (dub'1-nes), . [< ME. doublenesse ; 
< double + -ness.'] 1. The state of being dou- 
ble or doubled. 
If you think well to carry this, as you may, the double- 
ne#s of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof. 
Shak., M. for M., lit 1. 
Doublenett is sometimes connected with proliflcation, or 
the continued growth of the axis of the flower. Double- 
ness is strongly Inherited. 
Darm'n, Var. of Animals and Plants, p. 151. 
2. Duplicity; deceit. 
For in oure dayes ills but covetise, 
Doublenexs and tresoun and envye, 
Poyson and manslawhtre and mordre in sondry wyse. 
Chaucer, Former Age, 1. 63. 
It is clear to you, I hope, that Stephen was not a hypo- 
crite capable of deliberate doubleness for a selfish end. 
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, vi. 9. 
double-nostriled (dub'l-nos'trild), a. Having 
two nasal passages ; amphirhiue: a translation 
of the term Amphirhina, applied to all skulled 
vertebrates excepting the lampreys and hags, 
or Monorhina. Haeckel. 
