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A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation. And on the stick ten equal notches makes. Swift.

The board which receives the ends of the steps in a staircase.

The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small hollows.

A foul-smelling weed, the stinking goosefoot (Chenopodium Vulvaria).

d the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.

A secondary notch in the pulse curve, obtained in a sphygmographic tracing.

Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.

Pecked; pitted; notched. [Obs.] Chaucer. Bicched bones, pecked, or notched, bones; dice.

A notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened.

; a handspike.. -- To pawl the capstan, to drop the pawls so that they will catch in the notches of the pawl ring, and prevent the capstan from turning back. -- To rig the capstan, to prepare the for use, by putting the bars in the sockets. -- To surge the capstan, to slack the tension of the rope or cable wound aro…

f wire in front of the tubes of a locomotive, to arrest the escape of cinders. -- Cinder notch (Metal.), the opening in a blast furnace, through which melted cinder flows out.

manac, a primitive kind of almanac or calendar, formerly used in England, made by cutting notches and figures on the four edges of a clog, or square piece of wood, brass, or bone; -- called also a Runic staff, from the Runic characters used in the numerical notation. -- Clog dance, a dance performed by a person wearin…

The notch of an arrow or crossbow.

A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface.

The notched scale of a wire micrometer.

A cottager; a cottier. Burns. Through Sandwich Notch the West Wind sang Good morrow to the cotter. Whittier.

Pertaining to a cotyloid cavity; as, the cotyloid ligament, or notch.

A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.

Having the margin cut into rounded teeth notches, or scallops.

A rounded tooth or notch of a crenate leaf, or any part that is crenate; -- called also crenelle.