double (dubl)

and n. [Early mod. E. also dubble, dobble; F. double = Pr. doble = Sp. doblo, now usually doble = Pg. dobro = It. doppio (also Sp. Pg. It. duplo, E. duple ), IMG:content-3076.jpg:[graphic] So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem. Hee seemes not one, but double . Let. Shak., M. N. D., iii. 2. Milton, Eikon ok las tes, ii. The swan, on still St. Mary's lake, Float double , swan and shadow! Words worth, Yarrow Unvisited. 2. Having a twofold character or relation; comprising two things or subjects, either like or unlike; combining bining two in one: as, a double office; to play a double part on the stage or in society. Capt. Minott seems to have served our prudent fathers in the double capacity of teacher and representative. Emerson, Hist. Discourse at Concord. He [Clive] had to bear the double odium of his bad and of his good actions, of every Indian abuse and of every Indian reform. Macaulay , Lord Clive. 3. Twice as much or as large (according to some standard); multiplied by two; containing the same portion or measure, as to size, strength, etc., repeated: as, a ve el having double the capacity of another; a decoction of double strength; a double bed. Take double money in your hand. Gen. xliii. 12. Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. 2 Ki. ii. 9. 4. Of extra weight, thickne , size, or strength: as, double ale; a double letter. The haubreke was so stronge of dubble maile, and the squyer so full of prowe e, that he ne meved not for the stroke. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 198. Here's a pot of good double beer, neighbour; drink, and fear not your man. Shak ., 2 Hen. VI., ii. 3. 5. Acting in a twofold manner; diverse in manifestation; characterized by duplicity; de ceitful. With flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. Ps. xii. 2. You are too double In your di imulation. Ford , 'Tis Pity, ii. 2. She has found out the art of making me believe that I have the first place in her affection, and yet so puzzles me by a double tongue, and an ambiguous look, that about once a fortnight I fancy I have quite lost her. Steele, Lover, No. 7. 6. In bot., having the number of petals largely increased by a transformation of the stamens or pistils: applied to flowers.-7. In entom., geminate; being in pairs.-8. In musical instruments, ments, producing a tone an octave lower: as, a double ba oon, a double open diapason stop, etc. - Apparent double point. See apparent. - Cro double-claved, in her., a cro composed of double-warded keys, either radiating from a common ring or bow, or having the bow for one end of the cro , and three double double warded ends. - Cro double-cro ed, in her., a cro cro ed, the smaller arms of which are cro ed again. Also called cro cro let cro ly. - Cro double-parted. See cro 1. Cro double-parted flory, in her., a cro flory of which each part is cut in two and separated: it therefore resembles four flat crescents forming a cro .Cro double portant, in her., same as cro doublé (which see, under cro 1 ). - Double action, in mech.: (a) Action or power applied in two directions or according to two methods, or by the agency of two parts or members where a single part might be made to perform the work; or the property of exerting such action or power. (b) Specifically, in a steam-engine, the production of both motions of the piston by the agency of live steam, applied to each face alternately, as distinguished from single ac tion, in which the return motion of the piston is induced by atmospheric pre ure or by the weight of the parts. See double - acting. - Double algebra. ( a ) Ordinary algebra with imaginaries. (b) A multiple algebra in which the number of independent units is two. - Double angle of a quadrilateral, the sum of two opposite angles. - Double ba oon, a musical instrument, the largest and deepest of the oboe family, having a compa of 3 octaves upward from the third C below middie Cthat is, an octave lower than the ordinary ba oon. Its tube is conical, and more than 16 feet long, but so bent upon itself as to be compact and convenient. - Double bottle, a ve el made of two bottles combined at one or more points, so as to make a group: usually for fantastic effect, but sometimes for a useful purpose. - Double bourdon, the lowest stop in an organ, of 32-feet pitch. - Double cla (of feet), in anc. pros., same as diplasic cla . See diplasic. - Double consonant, a character representing two consonant-signs, as x = ks, Greek = ps.-Double contact, two points.- Double crown, an English printing-paper if the size method incheieren in teleg., a of signaling a current first in one direction and then in the other is used for each signal. In some cases the line is kept closed, and to transmit a signal the current is reversed. In other cases, as in the Wheat stone fast-speed automatic system, a current in one direction is used to put the recorder in action, and a current in the opposite direction to put it out of action and discharge the line. - Double demisemiquaver, in mus i cal notation, a sixty-fourth note. --Double generator of a ruled surface, a line in the surface, the intersection of two tangent planes. - Double gloster, a rich kind of cheese made in Gloucestershire, England, from new milk. -Double horizontal dial, a sun-dial having two gnomons and so arranged that the meridian can be found, as well as the time. Many problems can be solved by means of the instrument. - Double image, the appearance of two objects in binocular vision. - Double Joe, a Portuguese coin, the double Joannes, about equal in value to a Spanish doub loon. The fair Rose-Noble, the bright Moidore, And the broad Double - Joe from ayont the sea. Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 54. Double medium, an American printing-paper of the size 24 x 38 inches. - Double negative, a sign of negation repeated. - Double pistole, a former gold coin in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, generally worth about $8: but several kinds of Swi double pistoles were worth about $9.20.- Double point (NL. punctum duplex ), a point upon a curve or surface which counts for two in re gard to the intersections; on a curve, a point having two tangents, a node; on a surface, a point where a curve of the second order is tangent to the surface, a conical point. Double pot, an English printing-paper of the size 17 × 25 inches. Double question, one that offers two alternatives between which the determination is to be made. A double question standeth not in one woorde, but in two several sentences, as thus: Is the studie of Philosophie praise worthie, or is it not? Sir T. Wilson , Rule of Reason (1551). Double rose. See rose. Double royal, an American printing-paper of the size 26 × 40 inches. - Double secant of a skew cubic, a right line cutting the cubic three times. - Double sense of Scripture. See sense. - Double shuffle. See shufle . Double sixes. (a) Two sixes thrown at once with two dice. (b) A certain system of lines on a cubic surface. - Double slider. See slider . - Double spiral, in math ., the isogonal trajectory of a sheaf of circles; a rhumb-line as it appears on a stereographic projection.-Double tangent, a line which is tangent to a curve at two points. - Double-tangent plane, a plane which is tangent to a surface at two points. - Order of the Double Crescent. See crescent. (For other phrases, as double bar, consciousne , function, relation, refraction, etc., see the nouns.) [ Double is much used in composition with participles to denote twice the regular number or quantity: as, double -headed, double -jointed.] II. n. 1. A twofold quantity or size; a number, sum, value, or measure twice as great as the one taken as a standard. And whereas he saith the emperour had but for his part a dobble , as far as I can see, knowing what the wares cost in those partes, he had trible. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 353. If the thief be found, let him pay double . Ex. xxii. 7. In all the four great years of mortality... I do not find that any week the plague increased to the double of the precedent week above five times. Graunt, Bills of Mortality. It is a dangerous way of reasoning in physics, as well as morals, to conclude, because a given proportion of anything is advantageous, that the double will be quite as good, or that it will be good at all. Contemporary Rev. , I. 38 2. A backward turn in running to escape pur suers. When each double and disguise To baffle the pursuit he tries. Scott , Rokeby, iii. 2. Hence-3. A turn; a place where a doubling or turning is made, as by game in hunting. 1742 Often Lord Rothschild's hounds run a deer for a couple of hours over the wide pastures, the doubles , and the brooks of the Vale of Aylesbury. Edinburgh Rev., CLXVI. 389. 4. A trick; a shift; an artifice to deceive. I would now rip up All their arch-villanies and all their doubles , Which are more than a hunted hare ere thought on. Fletcher, Tamer Tamed, iii. 1. 5. Something precisely like another thing; a counterpart; a duplicate; an exact copy. No gloom that stately shape can hide, No change uncrown its brow; behold! Dark, calm, large-fronted, lightning-eyed, Earth has no double from its mould! O. W. Holmes , Birthday of Daniel Webster, Jan. 18, 1856. My charming friend has, I am almost sure, a dou- ble , who preaches his afternoon sermons for him. E. E. Hale , My Double. It seemed as if her double had suddenly glided forward and peered at me through her evasive eyes. T. Winthrop, Cecil Dreeme, xv. The host of hay-cocks seemed to float With doubles in the water. H. P. Spofford , Poems, p. 10. Hence-6. A person's apparition or spirit, appearing to himself or to another, as to admonish him of his approaching death; a wraith.-7. fold or plait; a doubling. A 8. Rolled up in sevenfold double . Marston . Milit ., a contraction of double - quick (which see).-9. In music: ( a ) A variation. (b) A repetition of words in a song. (c) [F.] A turn. (d) In the opera, a singer fitted to supply the place of a principal in an emergency. (e) An instrument, or especially an organ-stop, sounding the octave below the usual pitch: as, to play an organ-piece with the doubles drawn (that is, with the 16-feet stops). (f) pl. In change-ringing, changes on five bells: so called because two pairs of bells change places. Also called grandsire.-10. A size of Tav i stock roof slates, 13 × 16 inches.-11. Eccles., a feast on which the antiphon is doubled; a double feast. See feast, and to double an antiphon, under double, v. t.-12. In short whist, a game by which the winners score two points, their adversaries having scored only one or two to their five.-13. pl. In lawn - tennis, games played by two on a side: opposed to singles, played by one on a side.-14. In printing, same as doublet. -15. pl. Thick narrow ribbons for shoestrings and the like, usually made of silk or cotton. - To make a double, in shooting, to kill two birds or beasts in succe ion, one with each barrel of a double-barreled gun. double (dub'l), adv. [ To do a wilful ill, and glory in it, Is to do it double , double to be damn'd too. Fletcher, Wife for a Month, iv. 2. None Double see like Men in Love. Cowley , Ode, st. 5. Arched double, beveled double, cottised double, etc. See the adjectives. - To carry double, to carry two riders at once, as a horse. His father, without any trouble, Set her up behind him, and bad her not fear, For his gelding had oft carried double . Robin Hood's Birth (Child's Ballads, V. 345). To see double, to see, by illusion, two images of the same object: an experience common in drunkenne . double (dub'l), v.; pret. and pp. doubled , ppr. doubling. [Early mod. E. also dubble ; dublen , dubblen , doubler , dobler , F. doubler = Pr. Sp. doblar = Pg. dobrar = It. doppiare (cf. D. dubbelen , ver - dubbelen = G. doppeln , ver - doppeln = Dan. for - doble = Sw. för- dubbla , double, = MLG. dobbelen , dubbelen = Dan. doble = Sw. dobbla , gamble, play, with dice), duplare , double, duplus , double: see double , a.] I. trans. 1. To make double; increase, enlarge, or extend by adding an equal portion, measure, or value to: as, to dou ble a sum of money; to double the quantity or size of a thing; to double a task. As if equitie pretended were not iniquitie doubled . IMG:content-3077.png:[blocks in formation] 6. To pa round or by; march or sail round, so as to proceed along both sides of: as, to double Cape Horn. Sailing along the coast, he doubled the promontory of Carthage. Knolles, Hist. Turks. John Gonsalez and Tristan Vaz,. having obtained a small ship from him [the prince), resolved to double Cape Bojador, and discover the coast beyond. Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 97. 7. In music, to add the or lower octave to the tones of (the melody or harmony). Doubled gla . See gla . - To double an antiphon, to say an antiphon in full both before and after its psalm or canticle, is done double feasts. To double twist, to add (one thread) to another and twist (them) together. II. in trans. 1. To increase to twice the sum, number, value, or measure; grow twice as great. 'Tis observed in particular nations, that within the space of three hundred years, notwithstanding all casualties, the number of men doubles . T. Burnet, Theory of the Earth. 2. To turn in the opposite direction, or wind, in running. Doubling and turning like a hunted hare. But I began To thrid the musky-circled mazes, wind And double in and out the boles, and race Dryden. By all the fountains. Tennyson, Prince , iv. 3. To put on more effort or speed. He doubled to his work in a moment, and left the Cantab, who shortly afterwards gave up. Bury and Hillier , Cycling, p. 104. 4. Milit., to march at the double-quick.-5. To play tricks; practise deception. Om. An 't please your honour Count F. Tut, tut, leave pleasing of my honour, dili IMG:content-3078.png:[blocks in formation] To double upon. (a) Naval, to inclose between two fires, as an enemy's fleet. ( b ) To elude (pursuers) by turning back in running.