a. That aches; continuously painful. See Ache. -- Ach"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

The aching heart, the aching head. Longfellow. [1913 Webster]

n. (Hort.) The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The arched part of a structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) Hogging; -- opposed to sagging. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look. -- Be*seech"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seech"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming. -- Be*witch"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*witch"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art, act, or occupation or catching birds or wild fowls. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. an informal intensifier; as, we had a bitching good time. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

n. complaining; griping. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

n. The act or process of whitening, by removing color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bleaching powder, a powder for bleaching, consisting of chloride of lime, or some other chemical or chemicals. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shaded with branching palm. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sciences, with their numerous branchings. L. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech. [ 1913 Webster ]

I view the prince with Aristarchus' eyes,
Whose looks were as a breeching to a boy. Marlowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Infectious; contagious. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Captivating; alluring. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of seizing or taking hold of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Catching bargain (Law), a bargain made with an heir expectant for the purchase of his expectancy at an inadequate price. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the job of a professional coach.
Syn. -- coaching job. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. (Med.) The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Healing the distemper of cows. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mode of etching upon metals by electrolytic action. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By way of encroachment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act, art, or practice of engraving by means of acid which eats away lines or surfaces left unprotected in metal, glass, or the like. See Etch, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A design carried out by means of the above process; a pattern on metal, glass, etc., produced by etching. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An impression on paper, parchment, or other material, taken in ink from an etched plate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Etching figures (Min.), markings produced on the face of a crystal by the action of an appropriate solvent. They have usually a definite form, and are important as revealing the molecular structure. --
Etching needle, a sharp-pointed steel instrument with which lines are drawn in the ground or varnish in etching. --
Etching stitch (Needlework), a stitch used outline embroidery. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Seizing the attention; as, eye-catching posters; as, she wore an eye-catching low-cut gown.
Syn. -- attention-getting. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. having a wide range or effect; as, far-reaching (or extensive) forests; a far-reaching reform.
Syn. -- extensive. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. drawing favorable attention; as, a fetching new hat.
Syn. -- appealing, taking, winning. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. By pilfering or petty stealing. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a flinching manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having the habit of catching insects on the wing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 1st Hatch. ] A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. im- in + bench. ] A raised work like a bench. [ Obs. ] Parkhurst. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A method of ingrafting. See Inarch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Knowledge. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail; -- called also latch and lasket. [ Usually in pl. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the act of moving a newly-built vessel into the water for the first time. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the act of beginning something new.
Syn. -- debut, first appearance, unveiling, introduction, entry. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. the act of propelling with force.
Syn. -- launch. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the act of eating lunch. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. & n., fr. March, v. [ 1913 Webster ]

Marching money (Mil.), the additional pay of officer or soldier when his regiment is marching. --
In marching order (Mil.), equipped for a march. --
Marching regiment. (Mil.) (a) A regiment in active service. (b) In England, a regiment liable to be ordered into other quarters, at home or abroad; a regiment of the line. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having identical or closely similar appearance or properties; as, a pair of matching candlesticks.
Syn. -- duplicate, twin(prenominal), twinned. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Harmonious and pleasing in appearance when used together; as, a matching skirt and blouse.
Syn. -- coordinated; color-coordinated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Hiding; skulking; cowardly. [ Colloq. ] [ Written also meaching and meeching. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small hollows. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The small hollow, or hollows, cut; a notch or notches. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Carp.) A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Engin.) A method of excavating, as in a bank, by a series of cuttings side by side. See also Gulleting. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Forming an arch (over something). [ PJC ]

2. Dominating or overshadowing all other considerations. [ PJC ]

a. Scorching; burning; drying. “Summer's parching heat.” Shak. -- Parch"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. The act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. Knavishly; deceitfully. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See pattern. ] (Computers) A technique in automated data analysis, usually performed on a computer, by which a group of characteristic properties of an unknown object is compared with the comparable groups of characteristics of a set of known objects, to discover the idenity or proper classification of the unknown object. There are two major types of pattern matching, statistical pattern matching and syntactic pattern matching. In statistical pattern matching, the criteria used to recognize identity or class membership vary, but in general some combination of the differences in the groups of characteristics of known and unknown objects are considered to be a measure of the difference ("distance") between them, and the closest known object or objects are viewed as presenting the most likely identity or class for the unknown object. In syntactic pattern matching, a set of known patterns, e.g. as in the possible order of parts of speech in a language, is defined, and the unknown pattern is compared to find that known pattern or patterns which matches the unknown exactly. In general, statistical pattern matching is used where properties of objects with continuous values are being compared, and syntactic pattern matching where a complex arrangement of at least two different objects may be built by application of a set of rules (a "grammar") for combining the objects in a specified order. Examples of the latter are natural and formal languages. [ PJC ]

n. Extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.
Syn. -- parsimony, parsimoniousness, thrift. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. Scrimping; reluctant to spend money; stingy; miserly; same as cheesparing.
Syn. -- cheeseparing, close. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. A photo-engraving produced by any process involving the etching of the plate. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pinching bar, a pinch bar. See Pinch, n., 4. --
Pinching nut, a check nut. See under Check, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a pinching way. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone. Mayhew. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Hydraul. Eng.) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pitching piece (Carp.), the horizontal timber supporting the floor of a platform of a stairway, and against which the stringpieces of the sloping parts are supported. [ 1913 Webster ]