n. 1. a genus of Orthopteran insects consisting of common house and field crickets.
Syn. -- genus Acheta [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original. “One archetypal mind.” Gudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Among Platonists, the archetypal world is the world as it existed as an idea of God before the creation. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With reference to the archetype; originally. “Parts archetypally distinct.” Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. archetypum, Gr. 'arche`typon, fr. 'arche`typos stamped first and as model; 'arche = 'archi + ty`pos stamp, figure, pattern, ty`ptein to strike: cf. F. archétype. See Arch-, pref. ] 1. The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed. [ 1913 Webster ]

The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which now meet. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Types and shadows of that glorious archetype that was to come into the world. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Coinage) The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Biol.) The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to an archetype; archetypal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of light barouche. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as bratchet. [ Century Dict. 1906 ]

n. [ Sc. also bratchart; fr. ME. brachet, fr. OF. brachet; ML. brachetus, dim. of brache a hound. See brach. ] a kind of hound; a brach; -- applied contemptuously to a child. See also brach. [ Also spelled brachet. ] [ Century Dict. 1906 ]

The bratchet's bay
From the dark covert drove the prey. Scott, (Marmion, ii. int.). [ Century Dict. 1906 ]

To be plagued with a bratchet whelp -- Whence came ye, my fair-favoured little gossip? . Scott, (Kenilworth, II. xxi). [ Century Dict. 1906 ]

‖n. [ F., dim. of broche. See Broach, n. ] (Cookery) A small spit or skewer. [ 1913 Webster ]

--
En bro`chette" ety>[F.], on a brochette; skewered. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

‖n. [ F. fr. cacher to hide. ] A seal, as of a letter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lettre de cachet [ F. ], a sealed letter, especially a letter or missive emanating from the sovereign; -- much used in France before the Revolution as an arbitrary order of imprisonment. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;. See Catechise. ] Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching. [ 1913 Webster ]

Socrates introduced a catechetical method of arguing. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a catechetical manner; by question and answer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The science or practice of instructing by questions and answers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Cheetah. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Russ. chetverte one fourth. ] A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels. [ Russia ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. crochet small hook. See Croche. ] A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

Crochet hook,
Crochet needle, a small hook, or a hooked needle (often of bone), used in crochet work. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Crocheted p. pr. & vb. n. Crocheting ] To knit with a crochet needle or hook; as, to crochet a shawl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. something created by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle.
Syn. -- crochet. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. creating a garment of needlework. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. crochet, prop., a little hook, a dim. from the same source as croc hook. See Crook, and cf. Crochet, Crocket, Crosier. ] 1. A forked support; a crotch. [ 1913 Webster ]

The crotchets of their cot in columns rise. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Fort.) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mil.) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Print.) A bracket. See Bracket. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Med.) An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit. [ 1913 Webster ]

He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To play music in measured time. [ Obs. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Marked or measured by crotchets; having musical notation. Harmar (1587). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or character of being crotchety, or whimsical. [ 1913 Webster ]

This belief in rightness is a kind of conscientiousness, and when it degenerates it becomes crotchetiness. J. Grote. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Cf. OF. fisseau, fissel, OD. fisse, visse, vitsche, D. vies nasty, loathsome, E. fizz. ] (Zool.) The European polecat (Putorius fœtidus). See Polecat. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., dim. of fourche. See Fork. ] 1. A table fork. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) (a) A small fold of membrane, connecting the labia in the posterior part of the vulva. (b) The wishbone or furculum of birds. (c) The frog of the hoof of the horse and allied animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Surg.) An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the frænum. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Glove Making) The forked piece between two adjacent fingers, to which the front and back portions are sewed. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Card Playing) The combination of the card immediately above and the one immediately below a given card. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. hachette, dim. of hache ax. See 1st Hatch, Hash. ] 1. A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically, a tomahawk. [ 1913 Webster ]

Buried was the bloody hatchet. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

hatchet face, a thin, sharp face, like the edge of a hatchet; hence:
hatchet-faced, sharp-visaged. Dryden. --
To bury the hatchet, to make peace or become reconciled. --
To take up the hatchet, to make or declare war. The last two phrases are derived from the practice of the American Indians.

n. 1. A person hired to murder or physically attack another; a hit man. [ PJC ]

2. A person who deliberately tries to ruin the reputation of another, often unscrupulously, by slander or other malicious communication, often with a political motive, and sometimes for pay. [ PJC ]

{ } n. [ Named after the discoverer, Charles Hatchett. ] (Min.) Mineral tallow; a waxy or spermaceti-like substance, commonly of a greenish yellow color. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. Knit. ] A number of things tied or knit together; a bundle; a fagot. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

When they [ stems of asphodel ] be dried, they ought to be made up into knitchets, or handfuls. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. lachet, from an OF. dialect form of F. lacet plaited string, lace dim. of lacs. See Lace. ] The string that fastens a shoe; a shoestring. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ F. ] Goggles intended to rectify strabismus by permitting vision only directly in front. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes. J. Stevens.
Syn. -- matchet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread. [ Archaic ] Bacon. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation; usually called machete.
Syn. -- machete, panga. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ , n. [ LL. marcheta; of uncertain origin. ] In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Oligochaeta. [ archaic ]
Syn. -- oligochaetous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Perichæth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. planchette a small board, dim. of planche. See Planch. ] A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Planchet. ] 1. A circumferentor. See Circumferentor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes translated as of oracular or supernatural import. [ 1913 Webster ]

See Pouncet box. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Properly a diminutive from the same word as rack: cf. F. rochet. See 2d Ratch, Rack the instrument. ] 1. A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ratchet brace (Mech.), a boring brace, having a ratchet wheel and pawl for rotating the tool by back and forth movements of the brace handle. --
Ratchet drill, a portable machine for working a drill by hand, consisting of a hand lever carrying at one end a drill holder which is revolved by means of a ratchet wheel and pawl, by swinging the lever back and forth. --
Ratchet wheel (Mach.), a circular wheel having teeth, usually angular, with which a reciprocating pawl engages to turn the wheel forward, or a stationary pawl to hold it from turning backward. [ 1913 Webster ]

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☞ In the cut, the moving pawl c slides over the teeth in one direction, but in returning, draws the wheel with it, while the pawl d prevents it from turning in the contrary direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] 1. A rebound or skipping, as of a bullet bouncing off a hard surface, or off the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a flat stone thrown along the surface of water. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A peculiar gait used by certain animals such as the kangaroo who move by a type of bouncing motion. [ PJC ]

Kangaroos and wallabies (macropodids) as well as kangaroo mice and jerboas, locate themselves differently, though, and do not use the forelimbs at all in their distinctive modus locatus, to which Muybridge applied the term “ricochet”, . . . Jaime A. Headden [ PJC ]

Ricochet firing (Mil.), the firing of guns or howitzers, usually with small charges, at an elevation of only a few degrees, so as to cause the balls or shells to bound or skip along the ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ricochetted; p. pr. & vb. n. Ricochetting. ] To operate upon by ricochet firing. See Ricochet, n. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See Ricochet, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., dim. fr. OHG. rocch coat, G. rock. ] 1. (Eccl.) A linen garment resembling the surplise, but with narrower sleeves, also without sleeves, worn by bishops, and by some other ecclesiastical dignitaries, in certain religious ceremonies. [ 1913 Webster ]

They see no difference between an idler with a hat and national cockade, and an idler in a cowl or in a rochet. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. [ Obs. ] Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Probably corrupted fr. F. rouget the red gurnet, from rouge red. CF. Rouge. ] (Zool.) The red gurnard, or gurnet. See Gurnard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The European red gurnard (Trigla pini). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., dim. of sac. See Sac. ] A scent bag, or perfume cushion, to be laid among handkerchiefs, garments, etc., to perfume them. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. Gr. &unr_; holding back. ] Of or pertaining to the habit of the body; constitutional. [ Obs. ] Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Treacher. ] A traitor. [ Obs. ] “Treachour full of false despite.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]