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Same as Duboisine.

n ancient musical instrument in use among the Jews. Dan. iii. 5. It is supposed to be the same with the psaltery.

es made with the screen set at different angles, and usually printed in two shades of the same color or in black and one tint.

Any picture printed in two shades of the same color, as duotypes and duographs are usually printed.

A print made from two half-tone plates made from the same negative, but etched differently.

zley & W. -- Duplex telegraphy, a system of telegraphy for sending two messages over the same wire simultaneously. -- Duplex watch, one with a duplex escapement.

An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original. Burrill.

Same as Doorga.

from Holland. -- Dutch concert, a so-called concert in which all the singers sing at the same time different songs. [Slang] -- Dutch courage, the courage of partial intoxication. [Slang] Marryat. -- Dutch door, a door divided into two parts, horizontally, so arranged that the lower part can be shut and fastened, whil…

One of two Roman officers or magistrates united in the same public functions.

The union of two men in the same office; or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome.

Pertaining to the number two; of two parts or elements. Dyadic arithmetic, the same as binary arithmetic.

Same as Die, a lot. Spenser.

A race or succession of kings, of the same line or family; the continued lordship of a race of rulers.

Same as Eagre.

Same as Acroterium (a).

Earnest money. Same as Arles penny. [Obs.]

Same as Cologne.

-- called also eaves catch and eaves lath. -- Eaves channel, Eaves gutter, Eaves trough. Same as Gutter,

Not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to concentric.