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Double :: Double (n.) A player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence; a substitute.

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..

Wind :: Wind (v. i.) To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds..

Double-tongued :: Double-tongued (a.) Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful.

Heddle :: Heddle (n.) One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom..

Double :: Double (n.) Among compositors, a doublet (see Doublet, 2.); among pressmen, a sheet that is twice pulled, and blurred..

Furring :: Furring (v. t.) Double planking of a ship's side.

Pericardium :: Pericardium (n.) The double baglike fold of serous membrane which incloses the heart.

Sawhorse :: Sawhorse (n.) A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck..

Ambidexter :: Ambidexter (n.) A double-dealer; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes.

Dispondee :: Dispondee (n.) A double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables.

Doublethreaded :: Doublethreaded (a.) Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.

Harpy :: Harpy (n.) A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged American eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). It ranges from Texas to Brazil..

Doublet :: Doublet (a.) One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc..

Redingote :: Redingote (n.) A long plain double-breasted outside coat for women.

Binocle :: Binocle (n.) A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double-barreled field glass or an opera glass..

Double-acting :: Double-acting (a.) Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump..

Double :: Double (n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice..

Contrafagetto :: Contrafagetto (n.) The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon..

Double-ripper :: Double-ripper (n.) A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other..

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