- 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.