Word Meanings - DOUBLEDYE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To dye again or twice over. To double-dye their robes in scarlet. J. Webster.

• Double-lock
  To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security.
• DOUBLEENDER
  A locomotive with pilot at each end. Knight.
• Double-breasted
  Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, a double-breasted coat.
• Double-milled
  Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere.
• DOUBLEENTENDRE
  A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate.
• Double-charge
  To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder.
• Double dealer
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person.
• Doubleminded
  Having different minds at different times; unsettled; undetermined.
• DOUBLEEYED
  Having a deceitful look. [R.] "Deceitful meanings is double- eyed." Spenser.
• Double dealing
  False or deceitful dealing. See Double dealing, under Dealing.
• Doubleness
  The state of being double or doubled.
• Websterite
  A hydrous sulphate of alumina occurring in white reniform masses.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• Double-decker
  A man-of-war having two gun decks.
• Double-quick
  Of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run; as, a double-quick step or march.

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