Words that rhyme with lysandra

n 1: a throne that is the official chair of a bishop [syn: cathedra, bishop's throne]

n 1: clock that measures time by the escape of water [syn: water clock, clepsydra, water glass]

adv 1: downward and forward; "he was bent double with pain" 2: two together; "some people sleep better double" 3: to double the degree; "she was doubly rewarded"; "his eyes were double bright" [syn: doubly, double, twice] adj 1: having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities; "a double (or dual) role for an actor"; "the office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence"- R.W.Emerson; "every episode has its double and treble meaning"-Frederick Harrison [syn: double, dual, twofold, two-fold, treble, threefold, three-fold] 2: consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs; "an egg with a double yolk"; "a double (binary) star"; "double doors"; "dual controls for pilot and copilot"; "duple (or double) time consists of two (or a multiple of two) beats to a measure" [syn: double, dual, duple] 3: twice as great or many; "ate a double portion"; "the dose is doubled"; "a twofold increase" [syn: double, doubled, twofold, two-fold] 4: used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements; "double chrysanthemums have many rows of petals and are usually spherical or hemispherical" [ant: single] 5: used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis [syn: bivalent, double] [ant: multivalent, univalent] 6: large enough for two; "a double bed"; "a double room" 7: having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a sly double meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue" [syn: double, forked] n 1: a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base; "he hit a double to deep centerfield" [syn: double, two- base hit, two-bagger, two-baser] 2: a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts; "his first job in Hollywood was as a double for Clark Gable" [syn: double, stunt man, stunt woman] 3: someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother" [syn: double, image, look-alike] 4: a quantity that is twice as great as another; "36 is the double of 18" 5: raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff" [syn: doubling, double] v 1: increase twofold; "The population doubled within 50 years" [syn: double, duplicate] 2: hit a two-base hit 3: bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain; "He doubled and vomited violently" [syn: double over, double, double up] 4: do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions; "She doubles as his wife and secretary" 5: bridge: make a demand for (a card or suit) 6: make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate]

n 1: (Greek mythology) monster with nine heads; when struck off each head was replaced by two new ones; "Hydra was slain by Hercules" 2: a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer [syn: Hydra, Snake] 3: trouble that cannot be overcome by a single effort because of its many aspects or its persistent and pervasive quality; "we may be facing a hydra that defies any easy solution" 4: small tubular solitary freshwater hydrozoan polyp

n 1: any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover

n 1: a vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen

n 1: (Greek mythology) a prophetess in Troy during the Trojan War whose predictions were true but were never believed

n 1: jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds [syn: ephedra, joint fir]

n 1: a member of the lowest or worker Hindu caste [syn: Shudra, Sudra] 2: the lowest of the four varnas: the servants and workers of low status [syn: sudra, shudra]