Word Meanings - DOUBLETONGUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Deceit; duplicity. Now cometh the sin of double-tongue, such as speak fair before folk and wickedly behind. Chaucer.

• Double-banked
  Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.
• Double-headed
  Having two heads; bicipital.
• Doubletree
  The bar, or crosspiece, of a carriage, to which the singletrees are attached.
• Tongue-shell
  Any species of Lingula.
• DOUBLEDYE
  To dye again or twice over. To double-dye their robes in scarlet. J. Webster.
• DOUBLETONGUED
  Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful. Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued. 1 Tim. iii.
• Double-barreled
  Alt. of -barrelled
• Doublehearted
  Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous.
• Tonguester
  One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip.
• DOUBLEDYED
  Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely colored; hence; firmly fixed in opinions or habits; as, a double-dyed villain.
• DOUBLETONGUING
  A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.
• Double-beat valve
  See under Valve.
• Double-hung
  Having both sashes hung with weights and cords; -- said of a window.
• Duplicity
  Doubleness; a twofold state.
• Tongue-tie
  Impeded motion of the tongue because of the shortness of the fraenum, or of the adhesion of its margins to the gums.
• DOUBLEENDER
  A locomotive with pilot at each end. Knight.
• TONGUEPAD
  A great talker. [Obs.]
• Beforehand
  In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with.

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