3. To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false.

What penalty and danger you accrue,

If you be found to double.

J. Webster.

4. (Print.) To set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet.

To double upon (Mil.), to inclose between two fires.

Dou"ble, n. 1. Twice as much; twice the number, sum, quantity, length, value, and the like.

If the thief be found, let him pay double.

Ex. xxii. 7.

2. Among compositors, a doublet (see Doublet, 2.); among pressmen, a sheet that is twice pulled, and blurred.

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