Hatch (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hatched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hatching.] [F. hacher to chop, hack. See Hash.] 1. To cross with lines in a peculiar manne in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched.
Chapman.
Those hatching strokes of the pencil.
Dryden.
2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. [Obs.]
His weapon hatched in blood.
Beau. & Fl.
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Hatch, v. t. [OE. hacchen, hetchen; akin to G. hecken, Dan. hekke; cf. MHG. hagen bull; perh. akin to E. hatch a half door, and orig. meaning, to produce under a hatch. .] 1. 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.
Paley.
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not.
Jer. xvii. 11.
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.
Robynson (More's Utopia).
2. 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.
Hooker.
Fancies hatched
In silken-folded idleness.
Tennyson.
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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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Hatch, n. 1. The act of hatching.
2. Development; disclosure; discovery.
Shak.
3. The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
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Hatch, n. [OE. hacche, AS. haec, cf. haca the bar of a door, D. hek gate, Sw. hack coop, rack, Dan. hekke manger, rack. Prob. akin to E. hook, and first used of something made of pieces fastened together. Cf. Heck, Hack a frame.] 1. A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
In at the window, or else o'er the hatch.
Shak.
2. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
3. A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
Ainsworth.
4. A bedstead. [Scot.]
Sir W. Scott.
5. An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening.
6. Mining An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
Booby hatch, Buttery hatch, Companion hatch, etc. See under Booby, Buttery, etc. -- To batten down the hatches Naut., to lay tarpaulins over them, and secure them with battens. -- To be under hatches, to be confined below in a vessel; to be under arrest, or in slavery, distress, etc.
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Hatch, v. t. To close with a hatch or hatches.
'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched.
Shak
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