Buried was the bloody hatchet.
Longfellow.
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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.
{ Hatch"et*tine (hch"t*tn), Hatch"et*tite (-tt), } n. [Named after the
discoverer, Charles Hatchett.] (Min.) Mineral tallow; a waxy or
spermaceti-like substance, commonly of a greenish yellow color.
Hatch"ing, 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.