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A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice. Dryden.

The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt. Milton. Imperial anarchs doubling human woes. Byron.

An ornamental knot, with projecting lops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string.

A doubling together or folding; a duplication. [R.]

A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, howewer produced.

o contain or be worth twice as much as. Thus reënforced, against the adverse fleet, Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way. Dryden.

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.

A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication. Mummies . . . shrouded in a number of folds of linen. Bacon. Folds are most common in the rocks of mountainous regions. J. D. Dana.

The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication. The lower foldings of the vest. Addison.

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

A border made on sheet-metal ware by doubling over the edge of the sheet, to stiffen it and remove the sharp edge.

A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord.

in speaking or in composition, which consists in too frequent use of the letter l, or in doubling it erroneously.

A fold or doubling of a thread, cord, rope, etc., through which another thread, cord, etc., can be passed, or which a hook can be hooked into; an eye, as of metal; a staple; a noose; a bight. That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop To hang a doubt on. Shak.

The act of doubling, at each stake, that which has been lost on the preceding stake; also, the sum so risked; -- metaphorically derived from the bifurcation of the martingale of a harness. [Cant] Thackeray.

r in sport; as, a mischievous child. "Most mischievous foul sin." Shak. This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably mischievous to society. South.

A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait. The plaits and foldings of the drapery. Addison.

A fold; a doubling; a plication. Dr. H. More.