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Double-decker :: Double-decker (n.) A man-of-war having two gun decks.

Macule :: Macule (v.) To blur; especially (Print.), to blur or double an impression from type. See Mackle..

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

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

Dittology :: Dittology (n.) A double reading, or twofold interpretation, as of a Scripture text..

Yataghan :: Yataghan (n.) A long knife, or short saber, common among Mohammedan nations, usually having a double curve, sometimes nearly straight..

Water Plate :: Water plate () A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket.

Quinone :: Quinone (n.) A crystalline substance, C6H4O2 (called also benzoketone), first obtained by the oxidation of quinic acid and regarded as a double ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone proper is the type..

Doubling :: Doubling (n.) The act of one that doubles; a making double; reduplication; also, that which is doubled..

Doublet :: Doublet (a.) A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time.

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..

Ferricyanide :: Ferricyanide (n.) One of a complex series of double cyanides of ferric iron and some other base.

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..

Pourpoint :: Pourpoint (n.) A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries; also, a name for the doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians..

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

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

Folium :: Folium (n.) A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches, which have a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its equation is x3 + y3 = axy..

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..

Gastrula :: Gastrula (n.) An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). See Illust. under Invagination. In a more general sense, an ideal stage in embryonic development. See Gastraea..

Quadruplicate :: Quadruplicate (v. t.) To make fourfold; to double twice; to quadruple.

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