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Show PO D What fhould a bald fellow do with a comb dumb dorer with a pipe, or a blind man with looking-glafs Burton 2. A man fondly, weakly, and exceflivel in love And therefore is fhe born to make black fair Shakefpeare Our doters upon red and white are inceffantl perpiexed by the incertainty both of the continuance of their miftrefs's kindnefs, and of the lafting of her beauty Boyle Do'rineLy. adv: [from doting.] Fondly by exceflive fondnefs ‘That he, to wedlock dotingly betray'd Dryden's Fuwvenal Do'rrarp. 2 /. This word feems to fignify a tree kept low by cutting For great trees, we fee almoft all overgrow trees in church-yards, or near ancient buildings and the like, are pollards and dottards, and no Bacon Do'rrerEL. 7. /. [from dote.] The nam of a bird that mimicks geftures We fee how ready apes and monkeys are t imitate all motions of manj and in catching o the foolifh bird playeth th ape in geftures DO'UBLE adj Bacon [double, French; duplex Latin; duple, Erfe. 1. Two of a fort; one correfpondin the other; in pairs t All things are double one againft another, an he hath made nothing imperfe&t. Ecc/us. xlii. 24 2. Twice as much; containing the fam quantity repeated. It is fometimes ufe with 70, and fometimes without Great honours ave great burthens ; but on who They are caft with envy, he doth bear two loads His cares muft &ill be doxble o his joys In any dignity Ben Fonfor's Cataline This fum of forty thonfand pounds is almof double to what is fufficient Swift's Drapier's Letters 3. Having one added to another ; havin more than one in the fame order or parallel It is a curiofity alfo to make flowers double which is effected by often removing them int rew earth 5 as, on the contrary part, dowble flowers, by negleting, and not removing, prove fingle Bacon's Natural Hiftory 1 met a reverend, fat, old gouty friar With a paunch fwoln fo high, his dozble chi Might reft upon 't Dryden's Sparifb Friar 4. Twofold ; of two kinds Thus curfed fteel, and more accurfed gold « Gave mifchief birth, and made that mifchief bol And deuble death did wretched man invade By fteel affaulted, and by gold betray'd Dryden's Owid No ftar appears to dend his friendly light Darknefs and tempeft make a double night l‘)rjdcn 5. Two in number 6. Having twice the effe& or influence having the power of two Not nfed The magnifico is much belov'd And hath in his effect a yoice potential Shakefpeare's Othells Deceitful; ating two parts, one open ly, the other in fecret keep rank nels of Ylygfsi for, without that, his g tion might have degenerat that were no action whereof either i Jordan Coavell DousLE adv for twice the number or quantity donble-died, twice died as buttoned. tons Havin adj tw [doubl row an of but er. Glanvilles Scéfi I The double rich fearlet nonfuch i ble-beaded fower, of the richeft fcarlctaczzier.dw' DouBLE-MINDED soldii adj b Du ) m [dubl an tongue.] Deceitful ; giving contraiyaccounts of the fame thing g The deacons muft be grave, not double-tongued not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy Il;fire u For much the fear'd the Tyrians double-torgi'd A 1 Tim And knew the town to Juao's care belong'd Diyden's Virgil H?("‘; 70 Do'uBLE. w. 4. [from the adjetive 1. To enlarge any quantity by additio of the fame quantity. Rumour doth dozble voice and ech The numbers of the fear'd. - Shakefp. HemryIV b A Pay him fix thoufand, and deface the bond Double fix thoufand, and then treble that. Shak Our foe's too proud the weaker to affail Drydit Or doubles his difhonour if he fail This power of repeating or dzubling any ideav have of any diftance, and adding it to the former as often as we will, without being ever able t come to any ftop or fint, is that which givesu the idea of immenfity This was only the valu wa Lucke of the filver: ther befides a teath part of that number of : & (E m r f n l t u r W l deu f k j o i t o o p decup r v a t n a a ' r f i r T m é % t a l g g R a b Still doubling our a ‘; " t b _ n . o b n l u d l t In mortal b } w h l f e t ' a f lightnin Lik ‘A 9 1 t 2. To e t}leet m l P c e f a t c A : He fav? pro I i n c l e ; ; v l g i h i w l g o lent - But that it would be double-dealing, Sir, T would 2. To repeat ; to add Our poets have joined together fuch gualities a are by nature moft compatible 5 valour with anger T "Amorg the reft that there did take deligh To fee the fports of double-pining dag Sidwy DOUBLE-TONGUED adj. [from dublan He wa ; DouBLE-sHININGad.). [ doublsand fhine Shining with double luftre fhalt not be the worfe for me; there' Shake[peare's Tavelfth Night A double-minded man is unttable in all his WayseFames L Eftrange you could make it another i mixd.] Unfettled ; undetermined DOvBLE-DEALING. . /. [ double and deal gho [a He immediately double-locked his door, and fa down careully to reading and comparing bothhi orders Tathr Double-dealers may pafs mufter for a while; bu all parties wafh their hands of them in the conclu wicked cunning; the altion of one thin with the profeflion of another O double fecurity infidious fel diffimulation ; low o ]flT To fhoot the lock twice ; to faften wit another Artifice age 7o DouBLE-LOCK. . a. [doubleand fpes low; one who acts two parts at the fam time ; one who fays one thing and think ing. Morting 2. /i [double and deal deceitful, fubtle ther Others you fee, when all the town 's afloat Worape in th' embraces of a kerfey: coat Or double-button'd frieze Gay's Trivia DovpLE-DEALER Having the flowers growing one to ang Bu DoverLE-sBUTTONED fi D.OUB[',E-HEADED. adj. [double and o DouBLE-BITING, adj. [double and bize. Biting ‘or cutting on either fide moft their looks on the black monarc bend His rifing mufcles and his brawn commend His double bizing ax, and beamy fpear Each alking a gigantick force to rear Diryden's Fables o I am not {o old in proportion to them as I for Dovuzre is much ufed in compofition, generally for doubly, two ways ; as, doubleedged, having an edge on each fide: o double-p former. Twice over mecly was, which I can prove by arithmetick for then I was double their age, which now I a not Savift appearancesg both o%' truth andmf{:llj;e;g:) h:';l: us, we attend gn,y t':‘t'; en affe@tions hav quarrel, becaufe it 1s moft commonl made againft both the judge, and hi at whofe petition juftice is delayed doubl Here the doub/e-_fiuntcd ft ea true limit eaftward All things bein to all clerks of hi ceed to perform the juftice required And this {eems to be termed a double adj DouBreL -nax DED. ad dj. [ double and han d Having two hands the archbithop directs his letters, unde faid ordinary, that if he neither performs the thing enjoined, nor appear at the day afligned, he himfelf will pro a '7 Diyden ang 1 Jount.] Having two fources. The effe& is, tha province, commanding them to admonifh the {aid ordinary within nine day to do the jultice required, or otherwif to cite him to appear before him or hi official ; and laftly to intimate to th dob l w, g DovuBLE -Fou ) TED of the province, againit an inferiour ordinary, for delaying juftice in fom the authentical feal CWON To die twice over Leeutl an'd, d'u Yes, T'll to the roya Where firft the myferies of our lzs tf; And double-die it with imperial crimfyy fufficient to effect his defire in debarrin the plaintiff Cowell DouBLE-QUARREL, isa complaint mad by any clerk or other to the archbifho ecclefiaftical 7o DOUBLE-DIE tin.] Is that in which the defendant alleges for himfelf two feveral matters in bar of th 190W1 Gl Broome's Vieqy :}'Efiégm double-dealing 1 Chron. Xii. 33 fion And if one power did not both fee and hear Our fights and founds would always dowble be Dawics As double as the duke's "Fifty thoufand coul cauf Should hope in this lewd town to find a maid fee ho lation: this laft union was necefT DourLe-PLEA. n. [o [duplex placitum, La Should ravith dorers with a falfe afpect daiterels, w meeknefs with piety, an Both in his words and meaning Shakefpeare's Henry VIII of double heart If in black my lady's brow be deckt It mourns that painting and ufurping hai trees at their full height I' th' prefenc He would fay untruths, and be ever doubl ..b-lr h .,I |