double struck (dublstruk)

In numis., showing a double impre ion of the device (type) or in 1744 script i on, 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), n. [ Those doublets on the side of his tail seem to add strength to the muscles which move the tail-fins. N. Grew, Museum. The occurrence of doublets, or pairs of variant versions. Amer. Jour. Philol., VIII. 427. Specifically-(a) In typography, an unintentional duplication of a word, phrase, pa age, 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 le in meaning. Doublets are very common in English. They usually consist of an older and a later form, the older being generally descended and the later directly borrowed from the same original (as benison, benediction; malison, malediction, etc.), or two accidental variations of one original, sometimes slightly discriminated (as alarm, alarum, church, kirk; lord, laird, etc.). See dimorphism, 5. (c) In her., a chevron-shaped bearing which i ues from either side of the field, and reaches nearly to the opposite side without touching it. (d) One of a pair of dice turned up in throwing when they both present the same number of spots usually in the plural: as, to throw doublets. 2. Something formed by a union of two like things; a duplicate combination. Specifically (a) A counterfeit gem composed of two pieces of crystal with a layer of color between them, giving the effect of a genuine colored stone. You may have a bra ring gilt with a doublet for a small matter. N. Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, p. 330. or of a standard literary and a dialectal form (as (b) In optics, a combination of two simple lenses, with the object of diminishing the chromatic and spherical aberra tion: in the former use called specifically an achromatic doubloon Whether matrons of the holy a embly May lay their hair out, or wear doublets . B. Jonson, Alchemist, iii. 2. His doublet was of sturdy buff, And though not sword, yet cudgel-proof. S. Butler , Hudibras, I. i. 305. Doublet of defense or fencet, a brigandine. - To dight one's doublet. See dight . double-time (dub'l-tim'), n. Milit ., same as double-quick.