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phate 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 a…

A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout. [Archaic] Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment. Smollett.

A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n.,

To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play. [Obs.] Him old and young Exploded, and seized with violent hands. Milton.

An uproar; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl.

A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy. [Slang, U. S.]

Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds; as, the garrulous roller.

Noisy merriment; as, a high go. [Colloq.]

To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones. Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, And waste their music on the savage race. Young.

a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting. Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and harangues are heard. Milton.

German, or High Dutch. See under German. -- High jinks, an old Scottish pastime; hence, noisy revelry; wild sport. [Colloq.] "All the high jinks of the county, when the lad comes of age." F. Harrison. -- High latitude (Geog.), one designated by the higher figures; consequently, a latitude remote from the equator. -…

Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.

Mirthful; noisy; merry.

A noisy or unrestrained carousal or frolic; a spree. [Slang] Kipling.

A wrangling, noisy fellow.

gon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds; to talk unintelligibly, or in a harsh and noisy manner. The noisy jay, Jargoning like a foreigner at his food. Longfellow.

A merrymaking; noisy festivity. [Colloq.] We have had a jollification or so together. Sir W. Scott.

Jollity; noisy mirth. Chaucer.

Noisy mirth; gayety; merriment; festivity; boisterous enjoyment. Chaucer. All now was turned to jollity and game. Milton. He with a proud jollity commanded him to leave that quarrel only for him, who was only worthy to enter into it. Sir P. Sidney.

Noisy mirth; joviality. Hewyt.