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Alum :: Alum (n.) A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.

Spare :: Spare (n.) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare..

Pink :: Pink (v. t.) A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx..

Double-banked :: Double-banked (a.) 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..

Violone :: Violone (n.) The largest instrument of the bass-viol kind, having strings tuned an octave below those of the violoncello; the contrabasso; -- called also double bass..

Doubled :: Doubled (imp. & p. p.) of Doubl.

Worm :: Worm (n.) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms..

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc..

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

Double-hung :: Double-hung (a.) Having both sashes hung with weights and cords; -- said of a window.

Catling :: Catling (n.) A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife..

Furring :: Furring (v. t.) Double planking of a ship's side.

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

Diptych :: Diptych (n.) A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints..

Reduplication :: Reduplication (n.) The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled..

Binocle :: Binocle (n.) A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double-barreled field glass or an opera glass..

Berthierite :: Berthierite (n.) A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color..

Fluophosphate :: Fluophosphate (n.) A double salt of fluoric and phosphoric acids.

Double :: Double (n.) A game between two pairs of players; as, a first prize for doubles..

Double :: Double (n.) Something precisely equal or counterpart to another; a counterpart. Hence, a wraith..

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