Definition of double

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Double (a.) Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double..

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Bicrescentic :: Bicrescentic (a.) Having the form of a double crescent.
Double-faced :: Double-faced (a.) Having two faces designed for use; as, a double-faced hammer..
Double-bank :: Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
Double :: Double (a.) To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
Double-dye :: Double-dye (v. t.) To dye again or twice over.
Double-tonguing :: Double-tonguing (n.) A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing..
Doublet :: Doublet (a.) Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple.
Ferrocyanide :: Ferrocyanide (n.) One of a series of complex double cyanides of ferrous iron and some other base.
Quinone :: Quinone (n.) A crystalline substance, C6H4O2 (called also benzoketone), first obtained by the oxidation of quinic acid and regarded as a double ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone proper is the type..
Amphirhina :: Amphirhina (n. pl.) A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double..
Strain :: Strain (n.) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement..
Doublets :: Doublets (n. pl.) See Doublet, 6 and 7..
Air Bladder :: Air bladder () An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus..
Silicotungstic :: Silicotungstic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of a series of double acids of silicon and tungsten, known in the free state, and also in their salts (called silicotungstates)..
Double :: Double (v. i.) To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false.
Birostrated :: Birostrated (a.) Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks..
Fluophosphate :: Fluophosphate (n.) A double salt of fluoric and phosphoric acids.
Diesis :: Diesis (n.) The mark /; -- called also double dagger.
Diptych :: Diptych (n.) A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints..
Quadruplex :: Quadruplex (a.) Fourfold; folded or doubled twice.
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