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To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal. I was etching a plate at the beginning of 1875. Hamerton.

One who etches.

acid which eats away lines or surfaces left unprotected in metal, glass, or the like. See Etch, v. t.

A leguminous plant (Lathyrus sativus), with broad flattened seeds which are sometimes used for food.

See Drecche. [Obs.]

A mode of etching upon metals by electrolytic action.

Stretched beyond ordinary limits.

Stretched beyond ordinary limits.

To bring from far; to seek out studiously. [Obs.] To farfetch the name of Tartar from a Hebrew word. Fuller.

Brought from far, or from a remote place. Every remedy contained a multitude of farfetched and heterogeneous ingredients. Hawthorne.

oint of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get. Time will run back and fetch the age of gold. Milton. He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bred in…

One wo fetches or brings.

To feather, as an arrow. Bp. Warburton. [Congress] fletched their complaint, by adding: "America loved his brother." Bancroft.

One who fletches of feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows. [Obs.] Mortimer.

Same as Hatchel.

by Richard Jaquett, where felons for a long time were executed; from whence we have Jack Ketch. Lloyd's MS., British Museum. [Monmouth] then accosted John Ketch, the executioner, a wretch who had butchered many brave and noble victims, and whose name has, during a century and a half, been vulgarly given to all who have…

and a mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden. Bomb ketch. See under Bomb.

A sauce. See Catchup.

Strong desire; passion. (Archaic.) Some people have a letch for unmasking impostors, or for avenging the wrongs of others. De Quincey.

See Leachy.