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Double; twofold. Duplicate proportion or ratio (Math.), the proportion or ratio of squares. Thus, in geometrical proportion, the first term to the third is said to be in a duplicate ratio of the first to the second, or as its square is to the square of the second. Thus, in 2, 4, 8, 16, the ratio of 2 to 8 is a duplicat…

The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.

Having the quality of duplicating or doubling.

A doubling; a fold, as of a membrane.

Doubleness; a twofold state. [Archaic] Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things. I. Watts.

See 2d Dubber.

A cup used for holding an egg, at table.

To wrap up; to envelop. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava. Huxley.

iolent commotion. All Paris was quiet . . . to gather fresh strength for the next day's eruption. W. Irving.

Eruptive. [R.] R. A. Proctor.

Breaking out or bursting forth. The sudden glance Appears far south eruptive through the cloud. Thomson.

Right feeling. [R.] Harris.

A principle or mixture of principles extracted from various species of Eupatorium.

A genus of perennial, composite herbs including hemp agrimony, boneset, throughwort, etc.

One well born, or of noble birth.

Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs; good concoction or digestion; -- opposed to dyspepsia.

Of or pertaining to good digestion; easy of digestion; having a good digestion; as, eupeptic food; an eupeptic man. Wrapt in lazy eupeptic fat. Carlyle.

A figure in which a harts or indelicate word or expression is softened; a way of describing an offensive thing by an inoffensive expression; a mild name for something disagreeable.

Pertaining to euphemism; containing a euphemism; softened in expression. -- Eu`phe*mis"tic*al*ly, adv.