Chapter Dormant to Dredge-box of D by Soule's Synonymes

2. Be over-fond, be foolishly fond.

Dote on or upon. Love very fondly, love excessively, be foolishly fond of.

Do the honors. Bestow honor (as on a guest), show civilities.

Double, a.

1. Coupled, in pairs.

2. Twice as much.

3. Twofold.

4. Deceitful, dishonest, knavish, false, perfidious, hollow, insincere, double-minded, double-faced, double- tongued, full of duplicity.

Double, ad. Twice, doubly, twofold.

Double, v. a.

1. Fold, plait.

2. Duplicate, multiply by two, make twice as much.

3. (Naut.) Sail round.

Double, v. n.

1. Increase twofold, be doubled.

2. Return upon the same track.

Double, n.

1. Twice as much.

2. Doubling, plait, fold.

3. Returning upon one’s track (to elude pursuit).

4. Trick, stratagem, ruse, shift, artifice, wile, manœuvre.