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Having two faces designed for use; as, a double-faced hammer.

Having two hands.

Having two heads; bicipital. Double-headed rail (Railroad), a rail whose flanges are duplicates, so that when one is worn the other may be turned uppermost.

To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.

A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other. [Local, U. S.]

Having two surfaces; -- said specif. of aëroplane wings or aërocurves which are covered on both sides with fabric, etc., thus completely inclosing their frames.

Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple.

Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.

event. We . . . have sustained one day in doubtful fight. Milton. The strife between the two principles had been long, fierce, and doubtful. Macaulay.

nd a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one. Dovetail molding (Arch.), a molding of any convex section arranged in a sort of zigzag, like a series of dovetails. -- Dovetail saw (Carp.), a saw used in dove…

A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.

A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.

A small piece of artillery. [Obs.] Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger. Clarendon.

n entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. Macaulay.

The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.

Same as Drilling. Imperial drill, a linen fabric having two threads in the warp and three in the filling.

g one hump or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two humps.

A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth.

round. Other kinds of vehicles are now so called, esp. a kind of victoria drawn by one or two horses, and used as a public carriage in German cities. [Written also droitzschka, and droschke.]

A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called also oxycalcium light, or lime light.