Chapter Dormer to Dougal of D by Brewer's Readers Handbook

to be chaste as Diana, but has a liaison with Careless. On the other hand, Brisk pretends to entertain friendship for lord Froth, but makes love to his wife; and Ned Careless pretends to respect and honour lord Pliant, but bamboozles him in a similar way.—Congreve (1700).

Double-headed Mount (The), Parn assus, in Greece; so called from its two chief summits, Tithoreo and Lycorea.

Double Lines (in Lloyd’s books), a technical word for losses and accidents.

One morning the subscribers were reading the “double lines,” and among the losses was the total wreck of this identical ship.—Old and New London, i. 513.

Doublefee (Old Jacob), a moneylender, who accommodates the duke of Buckingham with loans.—Sir W. Scott: Peveril of the Peak (time, Charles II.).

Doubting Castle, the castle of giant Despair, into which Christian and Hopeful were thrust; but from which they escaped by means of the key called “Promise.”—Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress, i. (1678).

Dougal, turn-key at Glasgow Tolbooth. He is an adherent of Rob Roy.—Sir W. Scott: Rob Roy (time, George I.).