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1. To enlarge any quantity by addition of the same quantity.

Rumour doth double voice and echo The numbers of the fear'd. Shaksp. Henry IV. Pay him six thousand, and deface the bond; Double six thousand, and then treble that. Shakspeare. Our foe's too proud the weaker to assail, Or doubles his dishonour if he fail. Dryden. This power of repeating or doubling any idea we have of any distance, and adding former, as often as we will, without being ever able to come to any stop or stint, is that which gives us the idea of immensity. Locke.

Here's a pot of good double, neighbour: drink, and fear not your man. Shaksp. Henry. 3. A turn used to escape pursuit. Man is frail,

Convulsions rack his nerves, and cares his
breast;

His flying life is chas'd by rav'ning pains,
Through all his doubles, in the winding veins.
Blackmore.

4. A trick; a shift; an artifice. to the These men are too well acquainted with the chase, to be flung off by any false steps or doubles.

This was only the value of the silver: there was besides a tenth part of that number of talents of gold, which, if gold was reckoned in a decuple proportion, will just double the sum.

Arbuthnot on Coins.

2. To contain twice the quantity.

Thus reinforc'd against the adverse fleet,. Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way. Dryden.

3. To repeat; to add.

He saw proud Arcite and fierce Palemon In mortal battle doubling blow on blow; Like lightning flam'd their falchions to and fro. Dryden. 4. To add one to another in the same order or parallel.

Thou shalt double the curtain in the tabernacle. Exodus. 5. To fold..

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He bought her sermons, psalms, and graces, And doubled down the useful places.

6. To pass round a headland.

Prior.

Sailing along the coast, he doubled the promontory of Carthage, yet famous for the ruins of that proud city. Knolles.

Now we have the Cape of Good Hope in sight, the trade-wind is our own, if we can but double it.

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Dryden.

1. To increase to twice the quantity. "Tis observed in particular nations, that within the space of three hundred years, notwithstanding all casualties, the number of men double.

Burnet's Theory. 2. To enlarge the stake to twice the sum in play.

Throw Ægypt's by, and offer in the stead,
Offer--the crown on Berenice's head:
I am resolv'd to double till I win.
3. To turn back, or wind in running.

Dryden.

Under the line the sun crosseth the line, and maketh two summers and two winters; but in the skirts of the torrid zone it doubleth and goeth back again, and so maketh one long summer. Bacon's Natural History. Who knows which way she points? Doubling and turning like a hunted hare! Find out the meaning of her mind who can, So keen thy hunters, and thy scent so strong, Dryden. Thy turns and doublings cannot save thee long. Swift.

4. To play tricks; to use sleights. DOUBLE. n. s.

J. Twice the quantity or number.

If the thief be found, let him pay double. Exod. In all the four great years of mortality above mentioned, I do not find that any week the plague increased to the double of the precedent Graunt's Mortality. 2. Strong beer; beer of twice the common strength.

week above five times.

Addison.

DOUBLENESS. n. s. [from double.] The state of being double.

If you think well to carry this as you may, the doubleness of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof. Shaksp. Do'UBLER. n. s. [from double.] He that doubles any thing.

DOUBLET. n. s. [from double.] 1. The inner garment of a man; the waistcoat so called from being double for warmth, or because it makes the dress double.

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Hudibras. It is common enough to see a countryman in the doublet and breeches of his great-grandfather. Addison on Italy.

They do but mimick ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest. Two; a pair.

Pope.

Those doublets on the sides of his tail seem to add strength to the muscles which move the tail fins. Grew's Museum.

DOUBLO'N. n. s. [French.] A Spanish coin containing the value of twe pistoles. DOUBLY. adv. [from double.] In twice the quantity; to twice the degree.

Young Hollis, on a muse by Mars begot, Born, Cæsar like, to write and act great deeds, Impatient to revenge his fatal shot, His right hand doubly to his left succeeds. Dryden,

Haply at night he does with horror shun A widow'd daughter, or a dying son: His neighbour's offspring he to-morrow sees, And doubly feels his want in their increase, Prior.

To DOUBT. v. n. [doubter, French; dubito, Latin.]

1. To question; to be in uncertainty.

Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt and suspend our judgment, inclining neither to one side or other; as, namely, touching the time of the fall both of man and angels. Hooker.

Let no man, while he lives here in the world, doubt whether there is any hell or no, and thereupon live So, as if absolutely there were none.

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And make us lose, by fearing to attempt The good we oft might win.

4. Uncertainty of condition.

He from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire. Milton's Paradise Lost.

3. To fear; to suspect.

He did ordain the interdicts and prohibitions which we have to make entrance of strangers, which at that time was frequent, doubting novelties and commixture of manners.

If they turn not back perverse;

But that I doubt.

Bacon.

Shaksp.

And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have no assurance of thy life.

I'm bound in

To saucy doubts and fears.

5. Suspicion; apprehension of ill.

Deut.

Shaksp

I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you." Galatians.

6. Difficulty objected.

You that will be less fearful than discreet, Milton. That love the fundamental part of state, More than you doubt the change of it, prefer A noble life before a long. Shaksp. Coriolanus. 4. To distrust; to hold suspected.

DOUBT. n. s.

To every doubt your answer is the samé, It so fell out, and so by chance it came. Blacken. Do'UBTER. n. s. [from doubt.] One who entertains scruples; one who hangs in uncertainty.

Pope.

To teach vain wits a science little known, T'admire superior sense, and doubt their own. 1. Uncertainty of mind; suspense; un[from the verb.] determined state of opinion.

DOUBTFUL. adj. [doubt and full.] 1. Dubious; not settled in opinion. Methinks I should know you, and know this

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man;

Yet I am doubtful.

Thus they their doubtful consultations ended.
Shaksp. King Lear.
Milton.

Ambiguous; not clear in its meaning: as, a doubtful expression. 3. That about which there is doubt; that is not yet determined or decided; obscure; questionable; uncertain.

Could any difficulty have been proposed, the resolution would have been as early as the proposal; it could not have had time to settle into doubt. Those who have examined it, are thereby got past doubt in all the doctrines they profess. South. Locke.

2. Question; point unsettled.

In handling the right of a war, I am not willing to intermix matter doubtful with that which is out of doubt; for, as in capital causes, wherein but one man's life is in question, the evidence ought to be clear; so much more in a judgment upon a war, which is capital to thousands. Bacon. In doubtful cases, reason still determines for the safer side; especially if the case be not only doubtful, but also highly concerning, and the venture be a soul, and an eternity. South.

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Hippocrates commends the flesh of the wild - Do'UBTFULLY. adv. [from doubtful.]

Sow above the tame and no doubt but the ani

mal is more or less healthy, according to the air

it lives in.

Arbuthnot on Aliments.

All Bedla:n or Parnassus is let out.

'Tis past a doubt,

3. Scruple; perplexity; irresolution.

Our doubts are traitors,

Pope.

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Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare Her alter'd mind, and alienated care. Dryden. DOUBTFULNESS. n.. [from doubtful.] 1. Dubiousness; suspense; instability of opinion.

Though doubtfulness or uncertainty seems to be a medium between certain truth and certain falsehood in our minds, yet there is no such medium in things themselves. Watts. 2. Ambiguity; uncertainty of meaning.

In arguing, the opponent uses as comprehen sive and equivocal terms as he can, to involve his adversary in the doubtfulness of his expressions: and therefore the answerer, on his side, makes it his play to distinguish as much as he

can.

Locke,

Most of his philosophy is in broken sentences, delivered with much doubtfulness. Baker. 3. Hazard; uncertainty of event or condition. Do'UBTINGLY. adv. [from doubt.] In a doubting manner; dubiously; without confidence.

Whatsoever a man imagineth doubtingly, or with fear, must needs do hurt, if imagination

have any power at all; for a man representeth

that oftener that he feareth, than the contrary. Bacon's Natural History. DOUBTLESS. adj. [from doubt.] Free from fear; void of apprehension of danger.

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Pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure, That Hubert, for the wealth of all the world, Will not offend thee.

I am doubtless, I can purge

Shaksp.

Shaksp.

Myself of many I am charg'd withal. DOUBTLESS, adv. Without doubt; without question; unquestionably. Doubtless he would have made a noble knight.

All their desires, deserts, or expectations, the Shaksp. Conqueror had no other means to satisfy, but by the estates of such as had appeared open enemies to him, and doubtless many innocent persons suffered in this kind. Hale.

Doubtless many men are finally lost, who yet

have no men's síns to answer for but their own. South.

Mountains have been doubtless much higher than they are at present: the rains have washed away the soil, that has left the veins of stones shooting out of them. Woodward.

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Dryden.

Do ́VETAIL. n, s. [dove and tail.] A form of joining two bodies together, where that which is inserted has the form of a wedge reversed, and therefore cannot DOUGH. n. s. [bah, Sax. deegh, Dutch.] fall out. 1. The paste of bread, or pies, yet unbaked.

When the gods moulded up the paste of man, Some of their dough was left upon their hands, For want of souls, and so they made Egyptians. Dryden. You that from pliant paste would fabricks

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Expecting thence to gain immortal praise, Your knuckles try, and let your sinews know, Their power to knead, and give the form to

dough.

King 2. My cake is DOUGH. My affair has miscarried; my undertaking has never come to maturity.

My cake is dough, but I'l in among the rest; Out of hope of all, but my share of the feast. Shaksp DOUGHBA'KED. adj. [dough and baked.] Unfinished; not hardened to perfection; soft.

For when, through tasteless flat humility, In dougbbak'd men some harmlessness we see, "Tis but hus phlegm that's virtuous, and not he

Donne.

Doubtless, oh guest! great laud and praise Do'UGHTY. adj. [dohug, Saxon; deught,

were mine,

If, after social rites and gifts bestow'd,
I stain'd my hospitable hearth with blood.

Pope's Odyssey. DOUCE T. n. s. [doucet, French.] Acustard. This word I find only in Skin. ner and in Ainsworth,

Do'UCKER. n. s. [colymbus; from To douck, corrupted from To duck.] A bird that dips in the water.

The colymbi, or douckers, or loons, are admirably conformed for diving, covered with thick plumage, and their feathers so slippery that water cannot moisten them. Ray DOVE. n. s. [palambus; duvo, old Téútonick; taub, daub, German.] 3. A wild pigeon.

So shews a snowy dove trooping with crows, As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. Shaksp. Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the deve!

Pope.

virtue, Dutch.]

1. Brave; noble; illustrious; used of men and things.

eminent:

Such restless passion did all night torment The flatt'ning courage of that fairy knight, Devising how that doughty tournament With greatest honour he achieven might. Fairy Queen.

2. It is now seldom used but ironically, or in burlesque.

If this doughty historian hath any honour or conscience left, he ought to beg pardon. Stilling fleet.

She smil'd to see the doughty hero slain; But, at her smile, the beau reviv'd again. Pope. Do'UGHY. adj. [from dough.] Unsound; soft; unhardened.

Your son was misled with a snipt taffata fellow there, whose villanous saffron would have made all the unbaked and doughy youth of a nation in Shaksp

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Shall be call'd queen; but princess dowager,
And widow to prince Arthur.
Do'wDY. 2.s. An awkward, ill-dressed,
Shaksp
inelegant woman.

Laura, to his lady, was but a kitchen wench;
Dido, a doudy; Cleopatra, a gipsy; Helen and
Hero, slidings and harlots.

Shaksp

The bedlam train of lovers use
Tenhance the value, and the faults excuse;
And therefore 'tis no wonder if we see
They doat on dosudies and deformity. Dryden.
Do'woy. adj. Awkward.

No housewifery the dowdy creature knew;
To sum up all, her tongue confess'd the shrew.
DO'WER.

Gay.
DO'WERY. n. s. [douaire, French.]
1. That which the wife brings to her
husband in marriage.

His wife brought in dow'r Cilicia's crown,
And in herself a greater daw'r alone. Dryden.
His only daughter in a stranger's pow'r;
For very want, he could not pay a d'r. Pope.
Rich, though depriv'd of all her little store,
For who can seize fair virtue's better dow'r?

Melmoth.

2. That which the widow possesses.
His patrimonial territories of Flanders were
in deer to his mother-in-law.

3. The gifts of a husband for a wife..
Bacon's Henry VII.
Ask me never so much dowery and gift, and I
will give according as you shall say unto me;
but give me the damsel to wife.

4. Endowment, gift.

Genesis.

What spreading virtue, what a sparkling fire,
How great, how plentiful, how rich a dozer,
Dost thou within this dying flesh inspire!

2.

Do'WERED. adj. [from dower.] PortionDavies. ed; supplied with a portion.

Will

But

Shaksp.

Wotton

Virtue is the roughest way;
proves at night a bed of down.
Leave, leave, fair bride! your solitary bed,
No more shall you return to it alone;
It nurseth sadness: and your body's print,
Like to a grave, the yielding down doth dint.

Donne

We tumble on our down, and court the blessing

Of a short minute's slumber.

Denbam

A tender weakly constitution is very much owing to the use of down beds. Lockes

Any thing that soothes or mollifies.
Thou bosom softness! down of all my cares!
I could recline my thoughts upon this breast
To a forgetfulness of all my griefs,

And yet be happy.

Southern

3. Soft wool, or tender hair.
I love my husband still;
But love him as he was when youthful grace,
And the first down, began to shade his face.

you, with those infirmities she owes, Unfriended, new adapted to our hate, Dower'd with our curse, and stranger'd with our

oath,

Take her, or leave her?

Shaksp. King Lear.

DO WERLESS. adj. [from dower.] Wanting a fortune; unportioned.

4.

Thy doorless daughter, king, thrown to my

chance,

Is queen of us, and ours, and our fair France.

DOWLAS.

2. 5. A coarse kind of linen.
Shaksp.

Dryden

On thy chin the springing beard began To spread a doubtful down, and promise' man. Prier. The soft fibres of plants which wing the seed.

air.

Any light thing that moveth, when we find no wind, sheweth a wind at hand; as when feathers, or down of thistles, fly to and fro in the Bacon's Natural History. Like scatter'd doren, by howling Eurus blown By rapid whirlwinds from his mansion thrown. DOWN. n.s. [dun, Saxon; dune, Erse, Sandyz a hill.] A large open plain; properly a flat on the top of a hill.

On the downs we see, near Wilton fair, A hasten'd hare from greedy greyhound go.

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To compass this, his building is a town, His pond an ocean, his parterre a down. Pope. Down. prep. [aduna, Saxon.] 1. Along a descent; from a higher place to a lower.

Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down hill, lest it break thy neck with following it; but the great one that goes upward, let him draw after. A man falling down a precipice, though in Shaksp. King Lear. motion, is not at liberty, because he cannot stop that motion if he would. Locke.

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Whom they hit, none on their feet might stand,

Though standing else as rocks; but down they fell

By thousands.

Milton's Paradise Lost. Down sinks the giant with a thund'ring sound, His pond'rous limbs oppress the trembling ground. Dryden.

2. Tending toward the ground.
3. From former to latter times: as, this
has been the practice down from the
conquest.

Out of sight; below the horizon.
How goes the night, boy?

-The moon is down; I have not heard the clock,

And she goes down at twelve. Shaksp. 3. To a total subjection: used of men and things.

What remains of the subject, after the decoction, is continued to be boiled down, with the addition of fresh water, to a sapid fat. Arbuthn. 6. Into disgrace; into declining reputa

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Do WNFALLEN. participial adj. [down and fall.] Ruined; fallen.

Carew

The land is now divorced by the downfallen steep cliffs on the farther side. Do wNGYRED. adj. [down and gyre.] Let down in circular wrinkles. Lord Hamlet, with his stockings loose, Ungarter'd, and downgyred to his ancles. Shakspeare Do wNHILL. n. s. [down and bill.] Declivity; descent.

Heavy the third, and stiff, he sinks apace; And though 'tis downbill all, but creeps along the race. Dryden Do'wNHILL. adj. Declivous; descending.

And the first steps a dornbill greensward yields. Congreve DOWNLOOKED. adj. [down and look.] Having a dejected countenance; gloomy; sullen; melancholy.

Jealousy, suffus'd with jaundice in her eyes, Discolouring all she view'd, in tawney dress'd Downlook'd, and with a cuckoo on her fist. Dryden. DOWNLY ING. adj. [down and lie.] About to be in travail of childbirth. DOWNRIGHT. adv. [down and right.] I. Straight or right down; down perpendicularly.

A giant 's slain in fight, Or mow'd o'erthwart, or cleft downright. Audibras. 2. In plain terms; without ceremony. Elves, away!

3.

Arbuthnot.

We shall chide downright if I longer stay. Shakspeare. Completely; without stopping short. This paper put Mrs. Bull in such a passion, that she fell downright into a fit. DOWNRIGHT. adj.. 1. Plain; open; apparent; undisguised. An admonition from a dead author, or a caveat from an impartial pen, will prevail more

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