Double definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary DOUBLE, a. Dubl. [L., Gr. See Two.] 1. Two of a ... together; one corresponding to the other; being in pairs; as double chickens in the same egg; double leaves connected by one petiole. 2. Twice as much; containing the same quantity or length repeated. Take double money in your hand. Genesis 53. Let a double portion of thy spirit be on me. 2 Kings ...
double-breasted definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: (of ... of the front well over the other usually with a double row of buttons; "double-breasted jacket"; "double-breasted suit" [ant: single-breasted] Merriam Webster's adjective Date ... of the front lapped over the other and usually a double row of buttons and a single row of buttonholes < a double-breasted coat > 2. having a double-breasted coat < a ...
... Josephus states that the area of Herod's temple was double that of its predecessor (BJ, I, xxi, 1). The Mishna ... with the "Huldah" (mole) gates of the Mishna--the present Double and Triple Gates--which, opening low down in the wall ... forming three aisles, of which the middle was broader and double the height of the other two. The roofing was of ... carved cedar. The north, west, and east sides had only double colonnades. That on the east side was the "Solomon's ... the Sanhedrin (beth din) (Josephus places this elsewhere). In the wide spaces of this court took place the buying and selling ... was of great size--50 cubits high and 40 cubits wide--and was richly adorned, its brass glittering like gold ( ...
... unfit for drinking. This condition is doubtless due to the wide distribution of sewage, both intentionally (for irrigation of the gardens ... toward the desert and the mountains of Moab that any wide outlook is obtainable. This strange vision of wilderness and distant ... city, near the great water-parting, it descends as a wide and open valley in a southeasterly direction until, where it ... a little over one mile long by half a mile wide, is further subdivided into a number of distinct hills by ... the northwestern hill by but a narrow saddle--50 yards wide--near the Jaffa Gate. This hill sustains the citadel (the ... el-Edhemiyeh--popularly known as Gordon's Calvary--but the wide trench made here by quarrying somewhat obscures this fact. ...
... b. having the lips parted < stood there with his mouth wide open > c. not buttoned or zipped < an open shirt > 3 ... 22 Phonet. a (of a vowel) produced with a relatively wide opening of the mouth. b (of a syllable) ending in ... closed shop). 2 this system. open society a society with wide dissemination of information and freedom of belief. Open University (in ... land; as, an open harbor or roadstead. Through the gate, Wide open and unquarded, Satan passed. --Milton Note: Also, figuratively, used ... for an engagement. 9. (Phon.) (a) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; -- said of vowels; as, the ... the tones of which are widely dispersed, or separated by wide intervals. Open hawse (Naut.), a hawse in which the ...
... 3: fully extended in width; "outspread wings"; "with arms spread wide" [syn: outspread, spread] n 1: process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space [syn: spread, spreading] 2: a conspicuous disparity ... before us). 2 intr. (often foll. by out) have a wide or specified or increasing extent (on every side spread a ... in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space. Rose, as in a dance, the stately ... in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space. Rose, as in a dance, the stately ... extended on each side of the body, as in the double-headed eagle of Austria and Russia. See Displayed, 2. ...
... zik: I. IMPORTANCE 1. The Sole Art Cultivated 2. A Wide Vocabulary of Musical Terms 3. Place in Social and Personal ... fidelity with which that was obeyed is remarkable. 2. A Wide Vocabulary of Musical Terms: From the traces of it extant ... is headed by 5 men, 3 carrying harps, one a double flute, and one a dulcimer. Two of the harpists and ... skipping. Then follow 6 women; 4 have harps, one a double flute, and one a small drum which is fixed upright ... of the orifice of the tube. Besides this, there are double flutes, which, though apparently an advance on the single flute, are very ancient. These double flutes are either of equal or unequal length, and ...
... SCRIPTURE PASSAGES 1. Interpretation a Science 2. Scientific Accommodation III. DOUBLE REFERENCE IN SCRIPTURE 1. Allegory in Scripture 2. Hidden Truths ... terms, is dealt with in detail. See also INTERPRETATION. III. Double Reference in Scripture. The second use of the term accommodation ... emerges for discussion. Are we to infer the presence of double reference, or secondary meanings in Scripture? Here again we must ... quality of which, as a form of literature, is the double reference which it contains. To interpret the story of the ... or the Parables of our Lord without reference to the double meanings which they involve would be as false and arbitrary as any extreme of allegorizing. The double meaning is of the essence of the literary expression. ...
Machpelah definitions Hitchcock Bible Dictionary double Easton's Bible Dictionary portion; double cave, the cave which Abraham bought, together with the field ... mak-pe'-la (ha-makhpelah, "the Machpelah"; to diploun, "the double"): The name of a piece of ground and of a ... a place of sepulcher. The word is supposed to mean "double" and refers to the condition of the cave. It is translated "double cave" (to diploun spelaion) in the Septuagint in Ge 23 ... intervals, so as to leave pilasters 3 ft. 9 inches wide, with space between each of 7 ft. all round. ...
... Unmarried; as a single man; a single woman. 6. Not double; not complicated; as a single thread; a single strand of ... one on a stem, and in common usage, one not double. SIN'GLE, v.t. 1. To select, as an individual ... and may have more than one row of petals" [ant: double] 3: existing alone or consisting of one entity or part ... a room (as in a hotel) for one guest — compare double 7 III. verb (singled; singling) Date: 1628 transitive verb 1 ... Reference Dictionary adj., n., & v. --adj. 1 one only, not double or multiple. 2 united or undivided. 3 a designed or ... ale, beer, or drink, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] --Nares. Single bill ( ...
... as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention; having the mouth wide open. AG'APE, n. ag'apy. [Gr. Love.] Among the ... WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe; "the gaping audience"; "we ... 2. love 4a II. adjective or adverb Date: 1667 1. wide open ; gaping < with mouth agape > 2. being in a state ... as having their mouth agape, their mouth is open very wide, often because they are very surprised by something. (WRITTEN) She ... kinds of viands were used, a meal which had the double purpose of satisfying hunger and thirst and giving expression to ... s Dictionary of English Synonyms ad. 1. Yawning, with mouth wide open, with open chasm, wide asunder. 2. Wondering, gazing ...
... magnify or diminish objects at a certain distance. Lenses are double-convex, or convex on both sides; double-concave, or concave on both sides; plano-convex, or plano ... lentil. So named from the resemblance in shape of a double convex lens to the seed of a lentil. Cf. Lentil ... in the figures herewith given: viz., a plano-concave; b double-concave; c plano-convex; d double-convex; e converging concavo-convex, or converging meniscus; f diverging concavo-convex, or diverging meniscus. Crossed lens (Opt.), a double-convex lens with one radius equal to six times ...