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Bight :: Bight (v.) The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop..

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 :: Double (a.) To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.

Reglet :: Reglet (n.) A flat, narrow molding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. See Illust. (12) of Column..

Ingeminate :: Ingeminate (a.) Redoubled; repeated.

Peony :: Peony (n.) A plant, and its flower, of the ranunculaceous genus Paeonia. Of the four or five species, one is a shrub; the rest are perennial herbs with showy flowers, often double in cultivation..

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

Fold :: Fold (v. t.) To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair..

Benzile :: Benzile (n.) A yellowish crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.CO.C6H5, formed from benzoin by the action of oxidizing agents, and consisting of a doubled benzoyl radical..

Double :: Double (n.) That which is doubled over or together; a doubling; a plait; a fold.

Binal :: Binal (a.) Twofold; double.

Trombone :: Trombone (n.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whos

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

Gastraea :: Gastraea (n.) A primeval larval form; a double-walled sac from which, according to the hypothesis of Haeckel, man and all other animals, that in the first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two-layered structural stage, or gastrula form, must have descended. This idea constitutes the Gastraea theory of Haeckel. See Gastrula..

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

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)..

Plaited :: Plaited (a.) Folded; doubled over; braided; figuratively, involved; intricate; artful..

Joist :: "Joist (n.) A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed; -- called, according to its position or use, binding joist, bridging joist, ceiling joist, trimming joist, etc. See Illust. of Double-framed floor, under Double, a..

Barb :: Barb (n.) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.

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

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