double touch (dubltuch)

A method of ma making magnets. See magnet. doubletree (dub'l-trē), n. Same as equalizing under bar1 ). of two plano-convex lenses placed a short distance apart in the eyepiece of a microscope. An important improvement on the single lens was introduced by Dr. Wollaston, who devised the doublet still known by his name. W. B. Carpenter , Micros., § 23. 3t. pl . A game with dice upon tables, somewhat resembling backgammon. They be at their doublets still. Latimer , 4th Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. What! where's your cloak?... To tell you truth, he hath lost it at doublets . Cartwright , Ordinary (1651). 4. An outer body-garment such as was worn by men from about the end of the fifteenth until about the middle of the seventeenth century. Originally it had short skirts, and was girded round the body with a belt of leather or similar material. Later it was cut and adjusted with great care, and even stuffed or IMG:content-3088.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Doublet, time of Edward IV. 2. Doublet, from portrait of Sir William Ru ell. 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 sometimes 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 without sleeves, and was thus the prototype of the modern waistcoat. So long as doublets were a common garment for men, they wer were frequently imitated in the fashions of feminine dre : 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, having sleeves and short skirts. Then lace his dublett euery hoole. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 178. A silken doublet ! a velvet hose! a scarlet cloak! 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. double-worked (dub'l-werkt), a . Grafted twice. See the extract. When we graft or bud a tree already budded or grafted, we call it double - worked. P. Barry, Fruit Garden, p. 100.