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   devil lily
         n 1: east Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-
               spotted flowers with reflexed petals [syn: {tiger lily},
               {devil lily}, {kentan}, {Lilium lancifolium}]

English Dictionary: devil lily by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
double helix
n
  1. a pair of parallel helices intertwined about a common axis; "the shape of the DNA molecule is a double helix"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
double leg circle
n
  1. a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast (with legs together) swings his legs in a circle while alternating hands on the pommels
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Bilalo \[d8]Bi*la"lo\, n.
      A two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the bay
      of Manila.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Paleola \[d8]Pa*le"o*la\, n.; pl. {Paleol[91]}. [NL., dim. of
      L. palea.] (Bot.)
      A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Palulus \[d8]Pal"u*lus\, n.; pl. {Paluli}. [NL., dim. of L.
      palus a stake.] (Zo[94]l.)
      Same as {Palus}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Velella \[d8]Ve*lel"la\, n. [NL., dim. from L. velum a veil, a
      sail.] (Zo[94]l.)
      Any species of oceanic Siphonophora belonging to the genus
      {Velella}.
  
      Note: These creatures are brilliantly colored and float at
               the surface of the sea. They have an oblong, disklike
               body, supported by a thin chitinous plate, from which
               rises a thin diagonal crest which acts as a sail. The
               feeding and reproductive zooids hang down from the
               under side of the disk.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Silky, [or] Silk-bark}, {oak}, an Australian tree
            ({Grevillea robusta}).
  
      {Green oak}, oak wood colored green by the growth of the
            mycelium of certain fungi.
  
      {Oak apple}, a large, smooth, round gall produced on the
            leaves of the American red oak by a gallfly ({Cynips
            confluens}). It is green and pulpy when young.
  
      {Oak beauty} (Zo[94]l.), a British geometrid moth ({Biston
            prodromaria}) whose larva feeds on the oak.
  
      {Oak gall}, a gall found on the oak. See 2d {Gall}.
  
      {Oak leather} (Bot.), the mycelium of a fungus which forms
            leatherlike patches in the fissures of oak wood.
  
      {Oak pruner}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Pruner}, the insect.
  
      {Oak spangle}, a kind of gall produced on the oak by the
            insect {Diplolepis lenticularis}.
  
      {Oak wart}, a wartlike gall on the twigs of an oak.
  
      {The Oaks}, one of the three great annual English horse races
            (the Derby and St. Leger being the others). It was
            instituted in 1779 by the Earl of Derby, and so called
            from his estate.
  
      {To sport one's oak}, to be [bd]not at home to visitors,[b8]
            signified by closing the outer (oaken) door of one's
            rooms. [Cant, Eng. Univ.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Elephant apple} (Bot.), an East Indian fruit with a rough,
            hard rind, and edible pulp, borne by {Feronia elephantum},
            a large tree related to the orange.
  
      {Elephant bed} (Geol.), at Brighton, England, abounding in
            fossil remains of elephants. --Mantell.
  
      {Elephant beetle} (Zo[94]l.), any very large beetle of the
            genus {Goliathus} (esp. {G. giganteus}), of the family
            {Scarab[91]id[91]}. They inhabit West Africa.
  
      {Elephant fish} (Zo[94]l.), a chim[91]roid fish
            ({Callorhynchus antarcticus}), with a proboscis-like
            projection of the snout.
  
      {Elephant paper}, paper of large size, 23 [times] 28 inches.
           
  
      {Double elephant paper}, paper measuring 26[frac34] [times]
            40 inches. See Note under {Paper}.
  
      {Elephant seal} (Zo[94]l.), an African jumping shrew
            ({Macroscelides typicus}), having a long nose like a
            proboscis.
  
      {Elephant's ear} (Bot.), a name given to certain species of
            the genus Begonia, which have immense one-sided leaves.
  
      {Elephant's foot} (Bot.)
            (a) A South African plant ({Testudinaria Elephantipes}),
                  which has a massive rootstock covered with a kind of
                  bark cracked with deep fissures; -- called also
                  {tortoise plant}. The interior part is barely edible,
                  whence the plant is also called {Hottentot's bread}.
            (b) A genus ({Elephantopus}) of coarse, composite weeds.
                 
  
      {Elephant's tusk} (Zo[94]l.), the tooth shell. See
            {Dentalium}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Double \Dou"ble\, a. [OE. doble, duble, double, OF. doble,
      duble, double, F. double, fr. L. duplus, fr. the root of duo
      two, and perh. that of plenus full; akin to Gr. [?] double.
      See {Two}, and {Full}, and cf. {Diploma}, {Duple}.]
      1. Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent;
            made twice as large or as much, etc.
  
                     Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. -- 2
                                                                              Kings ii. 9.
  
                     Darkness and tempest make a double night. --Dryden.
  
      2. Being in pairs; presenting two of a kind, or two in a set
            together; coupled.
  
                     [Let] The swan, on still St. Mary's lake, Float
                     double, swan and shadow.                     --Wordsworth.
  
      3. Divided into two; acting two parts, one openly and the
            other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere.
  
                     With a double heart do they speak.      -- Ps. xii. 2.
  
      4. (Bot.) Having the petals in a flower considerably
            increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result
            of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens
            and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants
            have their blossoms naturally double.
  
      Note: Double is often used as the first part of a compound
               word, generally denoting two ways, or twice the number,
               quantity, force, etc., twofold, or having two.
  
      {Double base}, [or] {Double bass} (Mus.), the largest and
            lowest-toned instrument in the violin form; the
            contrabasso or violone.
  
      {Double convex}. See under {Convex}.
  
      {Double counterpoint} (Mus.), that species of counterpoint or
            composition, in which two of the parts may be inverted, by
            setting one of them an octave higher or lower.
  
      {Double court} (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for four
            players, two on each side.
  
      {Double dagger} (Print.), a reference mark ([Dagger]) next to
            the dagger ([dagger]) in order; a diesis.
  
      {Double drum} (Mus.), a large drum that is beaten at both
            ends.
  
      {Double eagle}, a gold coin of the United States having the
            value of 20 dollars.
  
      {Double entry}. See under {Bookkeeping}.
  
      {Double floor} (Arch.), a floor in which binding joists
            support flooring joists above and ceiling joists below.
            See Illust. of Double-framed floor.
  
      {Double flower}. See {Double}, a., 4.
  
      {Double-framed floor} (Arch.), a double floor having girders
            into which the binding joists are framed.
  
      {Double fugue} (Mus.), a fugue on two subjects.
  
      {Double letter}.
            (a) (Print.) Two letters on one shank; a ligature.
            (b) A mail requiring double postage.
  
      {Double note} (Mus.), a note of double the length of the
            semibreve; a breve. See {Breve}.
  
      {Double octave} (Mus.), an interval composed of two octaves,
            or fifteen notes, in diatonic progression; a fifteenth.
  
      {Double pica}. See under {Pica}.
  
      {Double play} (Baseball), a play by which two players are put
            out at the same time.
  
      {Double plea} (Law), a plea alleging several matters in
            answer to the declaration, where either of such matters
            alone would be a sufficient bar to the action. --Stephen.
  
      {Double point} (Geom.), a point of a curve at which two
            branches cross each other. Conjugate or isolated points of
            a curve are called double points, since they possess most
            of the properties of double points (see {Conjugate}). They
            are also called {acnodes}, and those points where the
            branches of the curve really cross are called {crunodes}.
            The extremity of a cusp is also a double point.
  
      {Double quarrel}. (Eccl. Law) See {Duplex querela}, under
            {Duplex}.
  
      {Double refraction}. (Opt.) See {Refraction}.
  
      {Double salt}. (Chem.)
            (a) A mixed salt of any polybasic acid which has been
                  saturated by different bases or basic radicals, as the
                  double carbonate of sodium and potassium,
                  {NaKCO3.6H2O}.
            (b) A molecular combination of two distinct salts, as
                  common alum, which consists of the sulphate of
                  aluminium, and the sulphate of potassium or ammonium.
                 
  
      {Double shuffle}, a low, noisy dance.
  
      {Double standard} (Polit. Econ.), a double standard of
            monetary values; i. e., a gold standard and a silver
            standard, both of which are made legal tender.
  
      {Double star} (Astron.), two stars so near to each other as
            to be seen separate only by means of a telescope. Such
            stars may be only optically near to each other, or may be
            physically connected so that they revolve round their
            common center of gravity, and in the latter case are
            called also binary stars.
  
      {Double time} (Mil.). Same as {Double-quick}.
  
      {Double window}, a window having two sets of glazed sashes
            with an air space between them.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Double-lock \Dou"ble-lock`\, v. t.
      To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security.
      --Tatler.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   doubly linked list
  
      A data structure in which each element contains
      pointers to the next and previous elements in the list, thus
      forming a bidirectional linear list.
  
      (1995-03-28)
  
  
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