Noun

''The notches in that tribe's warrior axe handles stand for killed enemies.

''This car is a notch better than the other.

A better team might also have done more to expose Uruguay’s occasionally brittle defence, but England’s speed of thought and movement in their attacking positions was a good notch or two down from the Italy game.

Noun

Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish , of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.

Any foot shape deviating from this model is conceived as a blemish , and the animal is unclean.

There are a very large number of types of blemish' and the smallest ' blemish visible to a human can be surprisingly small, for example less than 10?m deep, which may be on the surface of a heavily embossed tile.

It comes as a surprise to some people, but blemishes' can strike at any age. To minimize the appearance of facial '''blemishes''' or pimples, use a concealer with a dry texture; it will cling to the ' blemish better, last throughout the day, and not irritate the skin or initiate more breakouts.

As piety is the peculiar ornament of old people, so the want of it is a peculiar blemish in their character.

The processes of categorization, stereotyping, discrimination, and self-fulfilling prophecy can also apply to stigmas based on blemishes of individual character.

There is no reason to think that the enlivening possible blemish' was his hypocritical show of repentance, since there are so many other candidate ' blemishes to choose among.