Word Meanings - DOUBLEGANGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.

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• LIVINGLY
  In a living state. Sir T. Browne.
• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• LIVRAISON
  A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
• LIVINGNESS
  The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.
• LIVED
  Having life; -- used only in composition; as, long-lived; short-lived.
• LIVE
  liven, livien, AS. libban, lifian; akin to OS. libbian, D. leven, G. leben, OHG. lebn, Dan. leve, Sw. lefva, Icel. lifa to live, to be left, to remain, Goth. liban to live; akin to E. leave to forsake, and life, Gr. lip to anoint, smear; -- the
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• 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
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• DOUBLE-LOCK
  To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.
• LIVERWORT
  1. A ranunculaceous plant with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups. 2. A flowerless plant , having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond. Note: From this plant many others of the same
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
• LIVING PICTURE
  A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
• 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.
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• PERSONATE
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
• PERSONATOR
  One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
• DELIVERANCE
  Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
• REDELIVER
  1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.
• OLIVARY
  Like an olive. Olivary body , an oval prominence on each side of the medulla oblongata; -- called also olive.
• OLIVINE
  A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks.
• COD LIVER
  The liver of the common cod and allied species. Cod-liver oil, an oil obtained fron the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.
• WOLLASTON'S DOUBLET
  A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.
• OLIVERIAN
  An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay.
• DELIVERABLE
  Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale.
• REDELIVERY
  1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.