double-quick 
double-quick (dub'1-kwik'), n. and a. I. n. 
Milit., the quickest step next to the run, con- 
sisting of 165 steps to the minute, each 33 
inches long. Also double-time. 
The soldiers pushed doggedly ahead, and, thinking to 
pass the crowd, broke into a double-quick. 
The Century, XXXV. 009. 
II. a. 1. Performed in the time of the double- 
quick; pertaining to or in conformity with the 
double-quick: as, double-quick step. 2. Very 
quick or hurried : as, he disappeared in double- 
quick time. 
double-quick (dub'1-kwik'), adv. Milit., in 
double-quick step: as, we were marching dou- 
ble-gitick. 
double-quick (dub'1-kwik'), )i. Lintrans. Milit., 
to march in double-quick step. 
H. trans. Milit., to cause to march in dou- 
ble-quick step: as, the colonel double-quicked 
them. 
Berry double-quicked his men to the point, but was too 
late. The Century, XXXV. 962. 
doubler 1 (dub'ler), . [< double, v., + -er 1 ; = 
D. dobbelaar = ODan. doblere = Dan. dobler, 
gambler, gamester.] 1 . One who or that which 
doubles; particularly, an instrument for aug- 
menting a very small quantity of electricity, 
so as to render it manifest by sparks or the 
electrometer. 
The earliest of such continuous electrophori was Ben- 
net's Doubler, the latest is Holtz's machine. 
S. P. Thompson, Elect, and Mag., p. 26. 
2. A still arranged for intercepting vapors of 
distillation, and redistilling them. 3. A ma- 
chine for doubling and drawing silk. 4. The 
felting placed between a fabric to be printed 
and the printing-cylinder. 5. Same as dou- 
ble-ripper Norremberg doubler, a form of polari- 
scope. 
doubler 2 (dub'ler), n. [< ME. doubler, dobler, 
dobeler, < OF. doublier (= Pr. dobler, doblier), a 
large plate, < double, double : see double, a.] A 
dish or platter used in gathering and remov- 
ing fragments from the table. Minsheu. [Now 
prov. Eng.] 
And wisshed witterly with wille ful egre, 
That disshes and dobleres bifor this ilke doctour, 
Were molten led in his maw ! 
Piers Plowman (B), xiii. 81, 
A bassyn, a bolle, other a scole, 
A dysche other a dobler. 
Alliterative Poem (ed. Morris), II. 1146. 
double-ripper (dub'l-rip'6r), n. Two sleds 
placed one behind the other and connected by 
a plank, upon which boys coast down-hill. Also 
doubler, double-runner, bob-sled. [New Eng.] 
The double-ripper is now laid aside with other engines 
of calamity. Newspaper. 
double-ruff (dub'1-ruf), n. An old game at 
cards. 
I can play at nothing so well as double-ru/. 
Heywood, Woman Killed with Kindness. 
double-runner (dub'l-run'er), n. Same as dou- 
ble-ripper or bob-sled. 
double-shade (dub'1-shad), v. t. To double the 
natural darkness of. 
Now began 
Night with her sullen wings to double-shade 
The desert. Milton, P. R., i. 600. 
double-shining (dub'l-shl"mng), a. Shining 
with double luster. 
The sports of double-shining day. Sidney. 
boudle-shqt (dub'1-shot), v. t. To load, as a 
camion, with double the usual weight of shot, 
for the purpose of increasing the destructive 
power. This practice is not employed with the 
heavier and more perfect guns of the present 
day. 
double-snipe (dub'1-snip'), . A name of the 
greater snipe, Gallinago major. 
double-stop (dub'1-stop), . t. In playing the 
violin, to stop two strings of simultaneously 
with the fingers, and thus produce two-part 
harmony. 
double-Stopping (dub'l-stop'ing), n. In play- 
ing musical instruments of 
the viol family, the play- 
ing of two strings at once, 
especially where both of 
them are stopped that is, 
shortened by the finger. 
The two simultaneous 
tones thus produced are 
called double-stops. 
double-struck (dub'l- 
struk), a. In numis., show- 
ing a double impression 
of the device (type) or in- 
1744 
scription, as a coin or medal, owing to the fact 
that the metal blank accidentally shifted while 
the specimen was being struck off from the die. 
doublet (dub'let), . [< ME. dublet, dobbelet, 
doblette, doplyt, etc., < OP. doublet, m., also dou- 
blette, P. doublet, double stone, a garment so 
doubloon 
Whether matrons of the holy assembly 
May lay their hair out, or wear doublets. 
B. Jonson, Alchemist, iii. 2. 
His doublet was of sturdy buff, 
Anil though not sword, yet cudgel-proof. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, I. i. 305. 
oietle, t. doublet, double stone, a garment so Doublet of defense or fencet, a brigandine.- To dight 
called (also called doublier; ef. doublier, dou- one's doublet, see dight. 
blour, lining for a garment), < double, double, double-time (dub'1-tim'), n. Milit., same as 
+ dim. -et.j 1. One of a pair of like things; double-quick. 
a duplicate: in most uses commonly in the double-tonguet (dub'1-tung'), n. [ME. double- 
plural. tonge.'} Duplicity; deceitfulness. 
Those doublets on the side of his tail seem to add Now comith the sinne of double tonge, swiche as speke 
strength to the muscles which move the tail-fins. 'aire biforn folk and wikkedly bihynde. 
N. Grew, Museum. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
The occurrence of doublets, or pairs of variant versions, double-tongue (dub'1-tung), v. i. In music, in 
Amer. Jour. Philol. , VIII. 427. playing the flute and certain brass instruments, 
Specifically (a) In typography, an unintentional dupli- 
cation of a word, phrase, passage, etc. Also double, (b) 
In philol., a duplicate form of a word ; one of two (or, by 
extension, three or more) words originally the same, but 
having come to differ in form, and usually more or less 
like the cornet, to apply the tongue rapidly to 
*}, tf> fl th ami SIB linrrl nnlatfi nltprnntplv sn us 
J " ara P a ' ate alternately, so as 
to insure a brilliant execution of a staccato pas- 
sa 
being generally descended and the later directly borrowed 
from the same original (as benison, benediction; malison, 
malediction, etc.), or two accidental variations of one ori- 
gmal, sometimes slightly discriminated.^ otorni, alarum, 
tlln \ ^ ~* n n Anr l n .^ lit-...*- -.1 _ Ji_l__i..l t __ /-L 
t 
on the same subject at dif- 
lerent times; deeeittul. 
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued. 
i Tim Iii 8 
il.Ml. 11. u. 
spota : usually in the plural : "as, to "throw doublets. a ble them to reduce sail with greater rapidity. 
2. Something formed by a union of two like In thia rig tne lower topsail-yard is fixed to the cap, and 
things; a duplicate combination. Specifically- ^ ^^the upper topsail are lashed to the lower top- 
(a) A counterfeit gem composed of two pieces of crystal <|MI<I**.II /vi,,i,'i +,,,0, /\ . A , ,\,, \ * 
wfthalayerof color between them, giving the effect of a dOUble-tOUCh (dub 1-tuch ), n. A method of 
genuine colored stone. making magnets. See magnet. 
You may have a brass ring gilt with a doublet for a small doubletree (dub'1-tre), n. Same as equalizing- 
matter. X. Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, p. 330. bar (b) (which see, under bar 1 ). 
(6) In optics, a combination of two simple lenses, with the double-trouble (dub'l-trub'l), n. A character- 
object of diminishing the chromatic and spherical aberra- istic step of a rustic dance or breakdown, de- 
tion : in the former use called specifically an achromatic rived from the plantation negroes. Ti 
doublet. The Wollaston doublet (see the extract) consists 
of two plano-convex lenses placed a short distance apart 
in the eyepiece of a microscope. 
An important improvement on the single lens was in- 
troduced by Dr. Wollaston, who devised the doublet still 
known by his name. W. B. Carpenter, Micros., 23. 
It usually 
has a banjo accompaniment. [Southern U. S.] 
He [Peter Stuyvesant] likewise ordered that the ladies, 
and indeed the gentlemen, should use no other step in 
dancing than "shuffle and turn " and " double-trouble." 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 406. 
3f. pi. A game with dice upon tables, some- double-worked (dub'l-werkt), a. Graftedtwice. 
what resembling backgammon. 
They be at their doublets still. 
Latimer, 4th Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. 
What ! Where's your cloak? . 
See the extract. 
When we graft or bud a tree already budded or grafted, 
we call it double-worked. P. Barry, 1'ruit Garden, p. 100. 
doubling (dub'ling), n. [Verbal n. of double, .] 
1. Something doubled or folded over; a fold; 
.ere s yi 
To tell you truth, he hath lost it at doublets. 
Cartwright, Ordinary (1651). a plait; specifically (naut.), the doubled edge 
4. An outer body-garment such as was worn by or skirt of a sail. 2. That the addition of 
men from about the end of the fifteenth until 
about the middle of the seventeenth century, 
which makes double. Specifically (a) In her., the 
""ing of a mantle or mantling. (6) In slating, the double 
, . , 
Originally it had short skirts, and was girded round the course * slates at the eaves of a house : sometimes ap- 
body with a belt of leather or similar material. Later it plled to tne eaves-board. (c) In music, the addition to a 
was cut and adjusted with great care, and even stuffed or 
(Size of original.) 
,'. Douhlet ' " me of Edward IV. a. Doublet, from portrait of Sir 
William Russell. 3. Peasecod-bellied Doublet. (Both 2 and 3 time 
of Elizabeth. ) 4. Doublet, time of Charles I. 
bombasted into an exact shape. At this period it some- 
times had skirts, but was more often made without them. 
Throughout the sixteenth century the doublet usually 
had sleeves ; under the reign of Charles I. of England it 
became universally an undergarment, being made with- 
out sleeves, and was thus the prototype of the modern 
waistcoat. So long as doublets were a common garment 
for men, they were frequently imitated in the fashions of 
feminine dress : thus, a similar body-garment for women 
was worn about 1580, and again in the reign of Charles II 
of England, corresponding nearly to the modern sack hav- 
ing sleeves and short skirts. 
Then lace his dublett euery hoole. 
Babees Boole (E. E. T. S.), p. 178. 
A silken doublet I a velvet hose ! a scarlet cloak ! 
Shah., T. of the S., v. 1. 
tone of its upper or lower octave. 
3. pi. Naut., that part of a mast included be- 
tween the trestletrees and the cap. 4. The 
second distillation of wine. 5. The act of 
marching at the double-quick. [Rare.] 6. 
In bot., same as chorisis. Doubling of tne bow 
See bow3. 
doubling (dub'ling), a. Shifting; maneuvering. 
Lord Egmont was doubling, absurd, and obscure. 
Walpole, Letters, II. 484. 
doubling-frame (dub'ling-fram), n. A machine 
on which double silk threads are wound. 
doubling-nail (dub'ling-nal), n. A nail used 
to fasten the lining of the gun-ports in a ship. 
doubloon (dub-Ion'), n. [< F. doublon, < Sp. 
doblon (= Pg. dobrcto = It. doppione), a doub- 
loon, so called because it was originally of dou- 
ble the value of a pistole, aug. of doblo (= Pg. 
dobro = It. dopnio), double : see double. Cf. 
dobla, dobra.~\ A gold coin of Spain and the 
Spanish-American states, originally of double 
the value of the pistole, the double pistole be- 
ing equivalent from 1730 to 1772 to $8.24, from 
1772 to 1786 to $8.08, and from 1786 to 1848 to 
f 7.87. The current doubloon of Spain (doblon de Isabel, 
1848) is of 100 reals, and worth a little more than $5.02. 
Doubloon of Isabella II.. Queen of Spain, in the British Museum, 
i Size of the original. ) 
The old double doubloon, also called doubloon onza (ounce 
of gold), is of 320 reals, or 16 hard dollars, being equiva- 
lent to a quadruple pistole. The coinage of doubloons 
has ceased in Sjiain. 
