Word Meanings - DOUBLE-ENTENDRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate. (more info) This is a barbarous compound of French words. The true French

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• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• DOUBLE
  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
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• DOUBLE-LOCK
  To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• DOUBLEHEARTED
  Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys.
• DOUBLETHREADED
  Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads. (more info) 1. Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
• INDELICATE
  Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior. Macaulay. -- In*del"i*cate*ly, adv. Syn. -- Indecorous; unbecoming; unseemly; rude; coarse;
• ADMITTANCE
  The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ADMITTABLE
  Admissible. Sir T. Browne.
• DOUBLE-BARRELED; DOUBLE-BARRELLED
  Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun.
• WOLLASTON'S DOUBLET
  A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.