Part 493

Thus reënforced, against the adverse fleet, Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way.

Dryden.

4. To pass around or by; to march or sail round, so as to reverse the direction of motion.

Sailing along the coast, the doubled the promontory of Carthage.

Knolles.

5. (Mil.) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.

Dou"ble, v. i. 1. To be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value; to increase or grow to twice as much.

'T is observed in particular nations, that within the space of three hundred years, notwithstanding all casualties, the number of men doubles.

T. Burnet.

2. To return upon one's track; to turn and go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction.

Doubling and turning like a hunted hare.

Dryden.

Doubling and doubling with laborious walk.

Wordsworth.

3. To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false.

What penalty and danger you accrue, If you be found to double.

J. Webster.

4. (Print.) To set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet.

To double upon (Mil.), to inclose between two fires.

Dou"ble, n. 1. Twice as much; twice the number, sum, quantity, length, value, and the like.

If the thief be found, let him pay double.

Ex. xxii. 7.

2. Among compositors, a doublet (see Doublet, 2.); among pressmen, a sheet that is twice pulled, and blurred.

3. That which is doubled over or together; a doubling; a plait; a fold.

Rolled up in sevenfold double Of plagues.

Marston.

4. A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice.

These men are too well acquainted with the chase to be flung off by any false steps or doubles.