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noun

Hatching n. 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.

verb

Hatch v. t. (past & past part. hatched; pres. part. hatching)

To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching. "Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched." "Those hatching strokes of the pencil."

To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. (Obs.) "His weapon hatched in blood."

Hatch v. t.

To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched. "As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not." "For the hens do not sit upon the eggs; but by keeping them in a certain equal heat they (the husbandmen) bring life into them and hatch them."

To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy. "Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness."

Hatch v. t. To close with a hatch or hatches. "'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched."

Hatch v. i. To produce young; said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.

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Etymology of 'Hatching'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hatching" Quotes from Famous Books

... young can-quaffing hucksters shoot off their pellets, so they would keep them from these English Flores poetarum; but now the world is come to that pass, that there starts up every day an old goose that sits hatching up those eggs which have been filched from the nest of crows and kestrels. Here is a book, Ingenioso; why, to condemn it to clear [fire,][39] the usual Tyburn of all misliving papers, were too fair a death ...

— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various

... "I suppose this is one of their great hatching places. They are going to lay their eggs ...

— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks

... over there just as soon as the lights are turned down," he said to Fred. "If they are hatching out any mischief perhaps we'll hear something ...

— The Rover Boys on a Hunt - or The Mysterious House in the Woods • Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)

... significantly. "Perhaps! but you can never be sure of men. They are about as uncertain calculations as the hatching of guinea eggs, or the sprouting of parsley seed. What is theirs can't be worth much; but what belongs to somebody else, is invaluable; moreover, they are liable to sudden tantrums of sheer obstinacy, that hang on like whooping-cough, or ...

— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson

... therefore, and went away by myself to where the birds were hatching, as I wished to secure a supply of eggs. When the night closed in, I lay down upon the guano, and felt no cold; for the gale was now over, and the weather ...

— The Little Savage • Captain Frederick Marryat

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