double milled (dublmild)

Twice milled or fulled, as cloth, to make it finer. double-minded (dubʻl-minded), a. Wavering; unstable; unsettled; undetermined. A double - minded man is unstable in all his ways. Jas. i. 8. double-mindedne (dub'l-minded-nes), n. Indecision; inconstancy; instability. double-natured (dub'l-nā"tūrd), a . Having a twofold nature. Two kinds of life hath double - natured man, And two-of death. Young , Night Thoughts. doublene (dub'l-nes), n. [ doublene e ; double + -ne .] 1. The state of being double or doubled. If you think well to carry this, as you may, the double ne of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof. Shak., M. for M., iii. 1. Doublene is sometimes connected with prolification, or the continued growth of the axis of the flower. Doublene is strongly inherited. Darwin , Var. of Animals and Plants, p. 151. 2. Duplicity; deceit. For in oure dayes nis but covetise, Doublene 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 hypocrite-capable of deliberate doublene for a selfish end. George Eliot , Mill on the Flo , vi. 9. double-nostriled (dub'l-nos"trild), a. bi-nostrild), Having two nasal pa ages; a mph i rhine: a translation of the term Amphirhina, applied to all skulled vertebrates excepting the lampreys and hags, or Monorhina. Haeckel. IMG:content-3085.png:[blocks in formation] 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'l-kwik'), adv. Milit., in double-quick step: as, we were marching dou ble-quick. double-quick (dub'l-kwik'), v. I. in trans. Milit., to march in double-quick step. II, trans. Milit ., to cause to march in double-quick step: as, the colonel double - quicked them. Berry double - quicked his men to the point, but was too The Century , XXXV. 962. late.