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Doublehearted :: Doublehearted (a.) Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous.

Barge :: Barge (n.) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat..

Thread :: Thread (n.) A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted..

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..

Fuchsia :: Fuchsia (n.) A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation..

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

Macule :: Macule (n.) A blur, or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little; a mackle..

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

Blank :: Blank (n.) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the double blank; the six blank..

Spare :: Spare (n.) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare..

Zirconoid :: Zirconoid (n.) A double eight-sided pyramid, a form common with tetragonal crystals; -- so called because this form often occurs in crystals of zircon..

Geminous :: Geminous (a.) Double; in pairs.

Close :: Close (n.) A double bar marking the end.

Janus-headed :: Janus-headed (a.) Double-headed.

Monomphalus :: Monomphalus (n.) A form of double monster, in which two individuals are united by a common umbilicus..

Bewit :: Bewit (n.) A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a hawk's legs.

Double-handed :: Double-handed (a.) Deceitful; deceptive.

Basso :: Basso (a.) The double bass, or contrabasso..

Double :: Double (a.) To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length..

Iceland Spar :: Iceland spar () A transparent variety of calcite, the best of which is obtained in Iceland. It is used for the prisms of the polariscope, because of its strong double refraction. Cf. Calcite..

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