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into new earth; as, on the contrary part, double flowers, 
by neglecting, and not removing, prove tingle. Bacon. — 
Twofold ; of two kinds : 
Thus cnrfed (leel, and more accurfed gold, 
Gave mi (chief birth, and made that mifchief bold, 
And double death did wretched man invade, 
By fleel affaulted, and by gold betray’d. Drydcn. 
Two in number: 
And if one power did not botli fee and hear. 
Our fights and founds would always double be. Davies. 
Having twice the eflcCt or influence; having the power 
of two. Not ufed: 
The magnifico is much belov’d, 
And hath in its effeCt a voice potential, 
As double as the duke’s. Shakefpeare. 
Deceitful; r,Cling two parts, one openly, the other in fe- 
cret,—Fifty thoufand could keep rank, that were not of 
double heart, i Chron. xii. 33. 
I’ th’ prefence 
He would fay untruths, and be ever double 
Both in his words and meaning. Shakefpeare. 
DO'UBLE, adj. Twice over.—I am not fo old in pro¬ 
portion to them as I formerly was, which I can prove by 
arithmetic; for then I was double their age, which now I 
am not. Swift. 
To DO'UBLE, v. a. To enlarge any quantity by addi¬ 
tion of the lame quantity.—This power of repeating or 
doubling any idea we have of any diftance, and adding it to 
the former, as often as we will, without being ever able 
to come to any flop or (lint, is that which gives us the 
idea of immenfity. Locke. 
Rumour doth double voice and echo 
The numbers of the fear’d. Shakefpeare. 
To contain twice the quantity: 
Thus reinforc’d againft the adverfe fleet, 
Still doubling ours,.brave Rupert leads the way. Dryd. 
To repeat; to add : 
He faw proud Arcite and fierce Palemon 
In mortal battle doubling blow on blow ; 
Like lightning flam’d their falchions to and fro. Dryd. 
To add one to another, in the fame order or parallel.— 
Thou (halt double the curtain in the tabernacle. Exodus. —• 
To fold : 
He bought her fermons, pfalms, and graces, 
And doubled down the ufeful places. Prior. 
To pafs round a headland.—Sailing along the confl, he 
doubled the promontory of Carthage, yet famous for the 
ruins of that proud city. Knolles. 
To DO'UBLE, v. n. To increafe to twice the quantity. 
-—’Tis obferved, in particular nations, that within the 
fpace of three hundred years, notwithftanding all cafual- 
ties, the number of men double. Burnet. —To enlarge the 
(lake to twice the fum in play: 
Throw Egypt by, and ofl’er in the (lead ; 
Offer—the crown on Berenice’s head : 
I am refolvcd to double till I win. Dryden. 
To’turn back, or wind in running.—Ulider the line the 
fun crolfeth, and maketh two fummers and two winters; 
but in the fkirts of the torrid zone it doubletli and goeth 
back again, and fo maketh one long Cummer. Bacon. 
So keen thy hunters, and thy feent fo (Irong, 
Thy turns and doublings cannot fave thee long. Swift, 
To play tricks; to ufe Heights. 
DO'UBLE, f. Twice the quantity or number.—If the 
thief be found, let him pay double. Exodus. —Strong beer; 
beer of twice the common (Irength.—Here’s a pot of 
good double , neighbour : drink, and fear not your man, 
Shakefpeare. —A turn ufed to efcape purfuit; 
Vol. VI. No, 328. 
Man is frail, 
Convulfions rack his nerves, and cares his bread; 
His flying life is chas’d by rav’ning pains, 
Through all his doubles, in thg winding veins. B'ackm. 
A trick; a drift; an artifice.—Thefe men are too well 
acquainted with the chafe, to be flung off by any falfe 
devisor doubles. Addifon. —A fold; a duplicate. 
DO'UBLE is much ufed in compofition, generally for 
doubly , two ways ; as, double-edged, having an edge on each 
fide : or for twice the number or quantity ; as, double-died, 
twice died. 
BOU'BLE-BITING, adj. Biting or cutting on either 
fide: 
But mod their looks on the black monarch bend, 
His rifing inufcles and his brawn commend ; 
His double-biting ax, and beaming fpear. 
Each a(king a gigantic force to rear. Dryden. 
DOU'BLE-BUTTONED, adj. Having two rows of 
buttons: 
Others yon fee, when all the town’s afloat. 
Wrapt in th’ embraces of a kerfey coat, 
Or double-button'd frieze. Gay. 
DOU'BLE-DEALER, /. A deceitful, fubtle, infi- 
dious fellow ; one who acts two parts at the fame time ; 
one who fays one thing and thinks another.— Double-dealers 
may pafs mufter for a while ; but all parties \va(h their 
hands of them in the conclufion. L'EJlrange. 
DOU'BLE-DEALING, f. Artifice; diflimulation; 
low or wicked cunning ; the aCtion of one thing with the 
profeflion of another.—Thou Hr alt not be the vvorfe for 
me ; there’s gold.—But that would be double-dealing, fir. 
Shakefpeare. —Our poets have joined together fuch quali¬ 
ties as are by nature mod compatable ; valour with an¬ 
ger, meeknefs with piety, and prudence with diflimu- 
lation : this lad union was neceffary for the goodnefs of 
Ulyffes ; for, without that, his diflimulation might have 
degenerated into wickednefs and double-dealing. Broome. 
To DOU'BLE-DIE, v. a. To die twice over : 
Yes, I’ll to the royal bed, 
Where firfl the myfleries of our love were added, 
And double-die it with imperial crimfon. Dryden. 
DOU'BLE-FACED, adj. With two faces.—Fame, if 
not doublefacd, is double-mouth’d. Milton. 
DOU'BLE-FORM'ED, adj. Of mixed form: 
Till drfl I know of thee, 
What thing thou art, thus double-form'd. Milton. 
DOU'BLE-FOUNTED, adj. Having two fources: 
Here tire double-founted dream 
Jordan, true limit eadward. Milton. 
DOUBLE-HANDED, adj. Having two hands.—All 
things being double-handed, and having the appearances 
both of truth and falfehood, where our affections have 
engaged us, we attend only to the former. Gla'nville. 
DOU'BLE-HEAD'ED, adj. Having the flowers grow¬ 
ing one to another.—Tire double rich fcarlet nonfuch is 
a large double-head flower, of the richefl fcariet colour. 
Mortimer. 
DOU'BLE-ISLAND POINT, a cape on the north-ead 
v coaft of New Holland. Lat. 25.5S.S. Ion. 133. 12. E. 
Greenwich. 
To DOU'BLE-LOCK, v. a. To (hoot the lock twice ; 
to faden with double fecurity.—He immediately double, 
locked his door, and fat down carefully to reading and 
comparing both his orders. Tatler. 
DOU'BLE-MINDED, adj. Unfettled; undetermined. 
,—A double-minded man is undable in all his ways. "James . 
DOU'BLE-MOUTHED, adj. Wj*h two different 
mouths.—See the example in Double-Faced. 
DOU'BLE-PLEA, f. in law, is where a defendant al- 
legeth for himfelf two feveral matters, in bar of the 
plaintiff’s aCtion, when one of them is fufficient; which 
(hall not be admitted; as if a man plead feveral things, 
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