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Bimetallic :: Bimetallic (a.) Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency..

Ligature :: Ligature (n.) A double character, or a type consisting of two or more letters or characters united, as ae, /, /..

Borosilicate :: Borosilicate (n.) A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc..

Dinaphthyl :: Dinaphthyl (n.) A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C20H14, obtained from naphthylene, and consisting of a doubled naphthylene radical..

Dupion :: Dupion (n.) A double cocoon, made by two silkworms..

Duplicate :: Duplicate (a.) Double; twofold.

Semidouble :: Semidouble (a.) Having the outermost stamens converted into petals, while the inner ones remain perfect; -- said of a flower..

Barrelled :: Barrelled (a.) Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun..

Rackett :: Rackett (n.) An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys..

Rust :: Rust (n.) A minute mold or fungus forming reddish or rusty spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses (Trichobasis Rubigo-vera), now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew (Puccinia graminis). As rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish..

Straddling :: Straddle (n.) A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a put and a call, i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities..

Doublet :: Doublet (a.) Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple.

Bicrescentic :: Bicrescentic (a.) Having the form of a double crescent.

Diiambus :: Diiambus (n.) A double iambus; a foot consisting of two iambuses (/ / / /).

Double :: Double (a.) Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc..

Hydrazine :: Hydrazine (n.) Any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, resembling the amines and produced by the reduction of certain nitroso and diazo compounds; as, methyl hydrazine, phenyl hydrazine, etc. They are derivatives of hydrazine proper, H2N.NH2, which is a doubled amido group, recently (1887) isolated as a stable, colorless gas, with a peculiar, irritating odor. As a base it forms distinct salts. Called also diamide, amidogen, (or more properly diamidogen), etc..

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song..

Lead :: Lead (v. t.) To begin a game, round, or trick, with; as, to lead trumps; the double five was led..

Violone :: Violone (n.) The largest instrument of the bass-viol kind, having strings tuned an octave below those of the violoncello; the contrabasso; -- called also double bass..

Double :: Double (v. i.) To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false.

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