Word Meanings - DINAPHTHYL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C20H14, obtained from naphthylene, and consisting of a doubled naphthylene radical.

• Obtainment
  The act or process of obtaining; attainment.
• 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-eyed
  Having a deceitful look.
• Doublethreaded
  Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
• Double-tongue
  Deceit; duplicity.
• DOUBLEENDER
  A locomotive with pilot at each end. Knight.
• Double-faced
  Having two faces designed for use; as, a double-faced hammer.
• Double-tongued
  Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful.
• Radicalism
  The quality or state of being radical; specifically, the doctrines or principles of radicals in politics or social reform.
• DOUBLEENTENDRE
  A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate.
• Double-acting
  Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump.
• Double first
  A degree of the first class both in classics and mathematics.
• Double-tonguing
  A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.
• Radicality
  Germinal principle; source; origination.
• DOUBLEEYED
  Having a deceitful look. [R.] "Deceitful meanings is double- eyed." Spenser.

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