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D — Dormant to Dredge-box (Part 3 of 11)

    5. Counterpart.

Double-dealer, n. Deceiver, cheat, trickster, tricker.

Double-dealing, n. Deceit, duplicity, dissimulation, artifice, deception, fraud, dishonesty, trickery, Machiavelism.

Double-entendre, n. [English coinage for French double entente.]

    1. Pun, équivoque, quirk, quibble, calembour, play upon words, paronomasia.
    2. Indelicate pun, smutty équivoque.

Double-faced, a. Hypocritical, deceitful, knavish, dishonest, false, perfidious, double.

Double-headed, a. Bicipital, with two heads.

Double-hearted, a. Deceitful, treacherous, false-hearted, perfidious, false.

Double-minded, a. Unsettled, undetermined, undecided, changeable, fickle, vacillating, wavering.

Doublet, n.

    1. Body-garment, jacket, jerkin.
    2. One of a pair.

Doublets, n. pl. Pair, couple, two, twins.

Double upon. (Mil.) Enclose between two fires.

Doubling, n.

    1. Fold, plait.
    2. Artifice, trick, shift, stratagem.

Doubly, ad. Twice, double.

Doubt, v. n.

    1. Hesitate, waver, be doubtful, be in suspense, withhold judgment, be undetermined, entertain doubts, be in a state of uncertainty, not know what to think.
    2. (Rare.) Suspect, fancy, apprehend.

Doubt, v. a.

    1. Question, hesitate to believe, consider questionable, have doubts about.