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.
Semidouble :: Semidouble (a.) Having the outermost stamens converted into petals, while the inner ones remain perfect; -- said of a flower..
Birostrated :: Birostrated (a.) Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks..
Double :: Double (v. i.) To return upon one's track; to turn and go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction..
Dicephalous :: Dicephalous (a.) Having two heads on one body; double-headed.
Double-lock :: Double-lock (v. t.) To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security.
Glide :: Glide (n.) A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element)
Two-ply :: Two-ply (a.) Consisting of two thicknesses, as cloth; double..
Diplocardiac :: Diplocardiac (a.) Having the heart completely divided or double, one side systemic, the other pulmonary..
Duple :: Duple (a.) Double.
Alum :: Alum (n.) A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.
Barb :: Barb (n.) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
Contrabass :: Contrabass (n.) Double bass; -- applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the contrabass tuba or bombardon..
Bicorporate :: Bicorporate (a.) Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies..
Lunule :: Lunule (n.) A special area in front of the beak of many bivalve shells. It sometimes has the shape of a double crescent, but is oftener heart-shaped. See Illust. of Bivalve..
Double :: Double (a.) To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
Barrelled :: Barrelled (a.) Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun..
Paragon :: Paragon (n.) A size of type between great primer and double pica. See the Note under Type.
Lurch :: Lurch (n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
Diiambus :: Diiambus (n.) A double iambus; a foot consisting of two iambuses (/ / / /).
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