notched (nocht)

1. Having a notch or notches; nicked; indented. The middle claw of the heron and cormorant is toothed and notched like a saw. Paley, Nat. Theol., xiii. -3. A narrow defile or pa age between mountains; or, more properly, the entrance to such a defile, when it is nearly closed by precipices or walls of rock on either hand. The word is apparently limited in use to the region of the White Mountains in New Hampshire and of the A dir on dacks, and has nearly the same meaning as gap in the central parts of the Appal a chi an range. [U. S.] They landed, and struck through the wilderne to a gap or notch of the mountains. Irving. 4. A step or degree; a grade. [Colloq.] -5. A point in the game of cricket. (Rare.] A match at cricket between the gentlemen of Hampshire and Kent on the one side and All England on the other [1788]. The former won, says the "Annual Register," by "twenty-four notches." Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLIII. 377. 6. In zoöl. and an at., an incision or incisure; an emargination: as, the interclavicular notch, the depre ion over the breast-bone between the prominent ends of the clavicles.-7. In armor, the bouche of a shield. - Anterior notch of the liver, a deep angular incisure in the front border of the liver, between the right and left lobes. Also called umbilical or interlobular incisure or notch. - Clavicular notch, one of the superior lateral depre ed surfaces of the presternum, for articulation with the clavicles. - Co tyloid, craniofacial, dicrotic notch. See the adjec tives. - Ethmoidal notch, the mesial excavation between the orbital plates of the frontal bone, for the reception of the ethmoid bone. - Great scapular notch, the notch formed by the neck of the scapula and the acromion proce . Inter condylar notch, the notch or fo a between ween the femoral condyles behind. - Interlobular notch, See anterior notch of the liver. - Intervertebral notch, a concavity on the upper and lower borders of the pedicle, forming, when in apposition with those of the contiguous vertebræ, the intervertebral foramina. - Jugular notch, a notch in front of the jugular proce of the occipital bone, which contributes, with one on the temporal bone, to form the jugular foramen. - Lacrymal notch, an excavation on the internal border of the orbital surface of the maxilla, for the reception of the lacrymal bone.-Nasal notch. (a) A serrated surface of the frontal bone, for ar the Cavaliers to the Round heads. She had no resemblance to the rest of the notch'd rascals. Sir R. Howard , The Committee, i. ( Davies .) 3. In zoöl., having one or more angular incisions in the margin; emarginate.-4. In bot., very coarsely dentate, the upper side of the teeth being nearly horizontal, as in the leaves of Rhus toxicodendron.- Notched falcon. See falcon. notchel (noch'el), v. t. See nochel. notching (noch'ing), n. [Verbal n. of notch, v.] 1. A notch or series of notches.-2. In eng in., same as gullet ing. -3. In carp., a simple method of joining timbers in a frame, either by dovetails or by square joints or lap-joints. Calking, halving, and scarfing are forms of it. A light adz