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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..

Dilogical :: Dilogical (a.) Ambiguous; of double meaning.

Doubler :: Doubler (n.) One who, or that which, doubles..

Double-beat Valve :: Double-beat valve () See under Valve.

Link :: Link (n.) Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair..

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

Double-tonguing :: Double-tonguing (n.) A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing..

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

Thiophthene :: Thiophthene (n.) A double thiophene nucleus, C6H4S2, analogous to thionaphthene, and the base of a large series of compounds..

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

Two-tongued :: Two-tongued (a.) Double-tongued; deceitful.

Bimarginate :: Bimarginate (a.) Having a double margin, as certain shells..

Female Rhymes :: Female rhymes () double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line..

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

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..

Double-bank :: Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.

Antherogenous :: Antherogenous (a.) Transformed from anthers, as the petals of a double flower..

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

Diapason :: Diapason (n.) One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like..

Lorgnette :: Lorgnette (n.) elaborate double eyeglasses.

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