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Borosilicate :: Borosilicate (n.) A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc..

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..

Doubler :: Doubler (n.) An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope..

Cordonnet :: Cordonnet (n.) Doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc..

Double First :: Double first () One who gains at examinations the highest honor both in the classics and the mathematics.

Strain :: Strain (n.) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement..

Paragon :: Paragon (n.) A size of type between great primer and double pica. See the Note under Type.

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..

Equivocal :: Equivocal (a.) (Literally, called equally one thing or the other; hence:) Having two significations equally applicable; capable of double interpretation; of doubtful meaning; ambiguous; uncertain; as, equivocal words; an equivocal sentence..

Double :: Double (n.) Something precisely equal or counterpart to another; a counterpart. Hence, a wraith..

Whittle :: Whittle (n.) A grayish, coarse double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl..

Double-charge :: Double-charge (v. t.) To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder..

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

Double-quick :: Double-quick (v. i. & t.) To move, or cause to move, in double-quick time..

Lurch :: Lurch (n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.

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

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..

Duplex :: Duplex (a.) Double; twofold.

Double :: Double (a.) To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle; to fold one part upon another part of; as, to double the leaf of a book, and the like; to clinch, as the fist; -- often followed by up; as, to double up a sheet of paper or cloth..

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