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Faced
·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Face>>.
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faced
Turned up with facings on the cuffs and collars of uniforms and regimentals.
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Double
·adv Twice; doubly.
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double
To tip any one the double; to run away in his or her debt.
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Apple-faced
·adj Having a round, broad face, like an <<Apple>>.
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Bald-faced
·adj Having a white face or a white mark on the face, as a stag.
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Bell-faced
·adj Having the striking surface convex;
— said of hammers.
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Black-faced
·adj Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.
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Bold-faced
·adj Having a conspicuous or heavy face.
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Chub-faced
·adj Having a plump, short face.
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Copper-faced
·adj Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.
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Cream-faced
·adj White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion.
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Dog-faced
·adj Having a face resembling that of a dog.
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Dough-faced
·adj Easily molded; pliable.
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False-faced
·adj <<Hypocritical>>.
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Fiber-faced
·adj ·Alt. of Fibre-faced.
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Fibre-faced
·adj Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of;
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Glass-faced
·adj Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another.
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Half-faced
·adj Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager.
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Janus-faced
·adj Double-faced; deceitful.
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Lean-faced
·adj Having a thin face.
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Moon-faced
·adj Having a round, full face.
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Mulberry-faced
·adj Having a face of a mulberry color, or blotched as if with mulberry stains.
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Pitch-faced
·adj Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true...
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Platter-faced
·adj Having a broad, flat face.
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Pug-faced
·adj Having a face like a monkey or a pug; monkey-faced.
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Putty-faced
·adj White-faced;
— used contemptuously.
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Quarry-faced
·adj Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point;
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Sheep-faced
·adj Over-bashful; sheepish.
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Smock-faced
·adj Having a feminine countenance or complexion; smooth-faced; girlish.
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Tallow-faced
·adj Having a sickly complexion; pale.
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Weasel-faced
·adj Having a thin, sharp face, like a weasel.
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Whey-faced
·adj Having a pale or white face, as from fright.
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Wizen-faced
·adj Having a shriveled, thin, withered face.
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bacon-faced
Full-faced.
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bracket-faced
Ugly, hard-featured.
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bran-faced
Freckled. He was christened by a baker, he carries the bran in his face.
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brandy-faced
Red-faced, as if from drinking brandy.
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brazen-faced
Bold-faced, shameless, impudent.
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chitty-faced
Baby-faced; said of one who has a childish look.
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corny-faced
A very red pimpled face.
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cribbage-faced
Marked with the small pox, the pits bearing a kind of resemblance to the holes in a cribbage-board.
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platter-faced
Broad-faced.
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ruby faced
Red-faced.
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smock-faced
Fair faced.
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stub-faced
Pitted with the smallpox: the devil ran over his face with horse stabs (horse nails) in his shoes.
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weasel-faced
Thin, meagre-faced. Weasel-gutted; thin-bodied; a weasel is a thin long slender animal with a sharp ...
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mezzil-faced
red with pimples. Lane.
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liver-faced
Mean and cowardly, independent of complexion.
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Double dealer
·- One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person.
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Double dealing
·- False or deceitful dealing. ·see Double dealing, under <<Dealing>>.
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Double first
·- A degree of the first class both in classics and mathematics.
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Double pedro
·add. ·- Cinch (the game).
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Double-acting
·adj Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a d...
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Double-bank
·vt To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
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Double-banked
·adj Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being ...
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Double-barreled
·adj ·Alt. of Double-barrelled.
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Double-barrelled
·adj Having two barrels;
— applied to a gun.
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Double-breasted
·adj Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, ...
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Double-charge
·vt To <<Overcharge>>.
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Double-decker
·noun A man-of-war having two gun decks.
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Double-dye
·vt To dye again or twice over.
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Double-dyed
·adj Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely colored; hence; firmly fixed in opinions or habits; as, a d...
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Double-ender
·noun A locomotive with pilot at each end.
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Double-entendre
·noun A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or in...
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Double-eyed
·adj Having a deceitful look.
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Double-handed
·adj Having two hands.
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Double-headed
·adj Having two heads; bicipital.
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Double-hung
·adj Having both sashes hung with weights and cords;
— said of a window.
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Double-lock
·vt To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security.
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Double-milled
·adj Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine;
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Double-quick
·noun Double-quick time, step, or march.
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Double-ripper
·noun A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the othe...
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Double-shade
·vt To double the natural darkness of (a place).
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Double-surfaced
·add. ·adj Having two surfaces;
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Double-tongue
·noun Deceit; duplicity.
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Double-tongued
·adj Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful.
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Double-tonguing
·noun A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rap...
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double jug
A man's backside. Cotton's Virgil.
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double, to
To cover a ship with an extra planking, usually of 4 inches, either internally or externally, when t...
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double-banked
When two opposite oars are pulled by rowers seated on the same thwart; or when there are two men lab...
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double-bitted
Two turns of the cable round the bitts instead of one.
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double-block
One fitted with a couple of sheaves, in holes side by side.
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double-breeching
Additional breeching on the non-recoil system, or security for guns in heavy weather.
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double-capstan
One shaft so constructed as to be worked both on an upper and lower deck, as in ships of the line, o...
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double-crown
A name given to a plait made with the strands of a rope, which forms part of several useful and orna...
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double dutch coiled against the sun
Gibberish, or any unintelligible or difficult language.
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double eagle
A gold coin of the United States, of 10 dollars; value £2, 1 s. 8 d., at the average rate of exchang...
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double-futtocks
Timbers in the cant-bodies, extending from the dead-wood to the run of the second futtock-head.
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double insurance
Where the insured makes two insurances on the same risks and the same interest.
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double-ironed
Both legs shackled to the bilboe-bolts.
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double-jack
See jack-screw.
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double-land
That appearance of a coast when the sea-line is bounded by parallel ranges of hills, rising inland o...
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double-sided
A line-of-battle ship painted so as to show the ports of both decks; or a vessel painted to resemble...
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double-star
Two stars so close together as to be separable only with a telescope. They are either optically so o...
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double-tide
Working double-tides is doing extra duty. (See work double-tides, to.)
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double-whip
A whip is simply a rope rove through a single block; a double whip is when it passes through a lower...
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star, double
See double-star.
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pig-faced lady
n.
an old name in Tasmania forthe Boar-fish (q.v.).
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Double-beat valve
·- ·see under <<Valve>>.
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Double Hand Court
See Double Hood Court.
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Double Hood Court
North out of Upper Thames Street by Campion Lane in Dowgate Ward (Boyle, 1799).
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double-acting engine
One in which the steam acts upon the piston against a vacuum, both in the upward and downward moveme...
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double deck-nails
See deck-nails.
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double-headed maul
One with double faces; top-mauls in contradistinction to pin-mauls.
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double-headed shot
Differing from bar-shot by being similar to dumb-bells, only the shot are hemispherical.
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double-image micrometer
Has one of its lenses divided, and separable to a certain distance by a screw, which at the same tim...
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double upon, to
See doubling upon.
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double wall-knot
With or without a crown, or a double crown, is made by intertwisting the unlaid ends of a rope in a ...
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physical double-star
See double-star and binary system.
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double cocoa-nut
See sea cocoa-nut
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East Smithfield Double Passage
On Tower Hill (Dodsley, 1761).
Not named in the maps.
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work double-tides, to
Implying that the work of three days is done in two, or at least two tides' work in twenty-four hour...
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double-bank a rope, to
To clap men on both sides.
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