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Hatching   /hˈætʃɪŋ/   Listen
Hatching

noun
1.
The production of young from an egg.  Synonym: hatch.
2.
Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines.  Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatch.


Hatch

verb
(past & past part. hatched; pres. part. hatching)
1.
Emerge from the eggs.
2.
Devise or invent.  Synonyms: concoct, dream up, think of, think up.  "No-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"
3.
Inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating.
4.
Draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper.
5.
Sit on (eggs).  Synonyms: brood, cover, incubate.  "The female covers the eggs"



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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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