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A unit of energy, or work, being equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against the force of gravity the height of one foot.

An object of scorn; a dupe; a gull. [Obs.] To become the geck and scorn O'the other's villainy. Shak.

A doubling; duplication; repetition. [R.] Boyle.

grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram.

A person easily duped or cheated. Swift.

Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery. Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John i. 47. To wage by force or guile eternal war. Milton.

One easily cheated; a dupe. Shak.

Easily gulled; that may be duped. -- Gul"li*bii`i*ty, n. Burke.

A measure of weight, containing a hundred grams, or about 3.527 ounces avoirdupois.

A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short…

t in writing between two or more parties, whereof each party has usually a counterpart or duplicate; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master. The law is the best expositor of the gospel; they are like a pair of indentures: they a…

Repetition; reduplication; reiteration. De Quincey. That Sacred ingemination, Amen, Amen. Featley. Happiness with an echo or ingemination. Holdsworth.

To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass. [Obs.] How doth it [sin] perplex and intrique the whole course of your lives! Dr. J. Scott.

Double-faced; deceitful. Janus-faced lock, one having duplicate faces so as to go upon a right or a left hand door, the key entering on either side indifferently. Knight.

A measure of weight, being a thousand grams, equal to 2.2046 pounds avoirdupois (15,432.34 grains). It is equal to the weight of a cubic decimeter of distilled water at the temperature of maximum density, or 39º Fahrenheit.

up of rodents, including the hares. They have four incisors in the upper jaw. Called also Duplicidentata.

aining to Machiavel, or to his supposed principles; politically cunning; characterized by duplicity or bad faith; crafty.

An East Indian weight, varying in different localities from 25 to about 82 pounds avoirdupois.

ng two mean proportionals between two given lines, required in solving the problem of the duplication of the cube. Brande & C.

Other; duplicate, corresponding to; resembling; hence, metameric; as, meta-arabinic, metaldehyde.