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Double-faced :: Double-faced (a.) Having two faces designed for use; as, a double-faced hammer..

Double-ender :: Double-ender (n.) A locomotive with pilot at each end.

Superfete :: Superfetation (n.) The formation of a fetus at the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation but before the birth of the offspring produced by it. This is possible only when there is a double uterus, or where menstruation persists up to the time of the second impregnation..

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..

Sea Cocoa :: Sea cocoa () A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut..

Bassoon :: Bassoon (n.) A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc..

Quadruplex :: Quadruplex (a.) Fourfold; folded or doubled twice.

Pink :: Pink (v. t.) A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx..

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.

Bi- :: Bi- () In the composition of chemical names bi- denotes two atoms, parts, or equivalents of that constituent to the name of which it is prefixed, to one of the other component, or that such constituent is present in double the ordinary proportion; as, bichromate, bisulphide. Be- and di- are often used interchangeably..

Di- :: Di- () A prefix, signifying twofold, double, twice.

Double :: Double (a.) To pass around or by; to march or sail round, so as to reverse the direction of motion..

Double-quick :: Double-quick (n.) Double-quick time, step, or march..

Double :: Double (n.) Twice as much; twice the number, sum, quantity, length, value, and the like..

Dicephalous :: Dicephalous (a.) Having two heads on one body; double-headed.

Shotgun :: Shotgun (n.) A light, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game..

Geminate :: Geminate (v. t.) To double.

Semidouble :: Semidouble (n.) An office or feast celebrated with less solemnity than the double ones. See Double, n., 8..

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.

Doublethreaded :: Doublethreaded (a.) Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads.

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