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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HATCH, v.t.
1. To produce young from eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat. In Egypt, chickens are hatched by artificial heat.
The partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not. Jeremiah 17
2. To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce in silence; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy.
HATCH, v.t. To shade by lines in drawing and engraving.
Those hatching strokes of the pencil.
1. To steep.
HATCH, v.i. To produce young; to bring the young to maturity. Eggs will not hatch without a due degree and continuance of heat.
HATCH, n. A brood; as many chickens as are produced at once, or by one incubation.
1. The act of exclusion from the egg.
2. Disclosure; discovery.
HATCH, or HATCHES, n.
1. Properly, the grate or frame of cross-bars laid over the opening in a ship's deck, now called hatch-bars. The lid or cover of a hatchway is also called hatches.
2. The opening in a ship's deck, or the passage from one deck to another, the name of the grate itself being used for the opening; but this is more properly called the hatchway.
3. A half-door, or door with an opening over it.
4. Floodgates.
5. In Cornwall, Eng. openings into mines, or in search of them.
6. To be under the hatches, to be confined, or to be in distress, depression or slavery.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the production of young from an egg [syn: hatch, hatching]
2: shading consisting of multiple crossing lines [syn: hatch, hatching, crosshatch, hachure]
3: a movable barrier covering a hatchway v
1: emerge from the eggs; "young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch"
2: devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software" [syn: think up, think of, dream up, hatch, concoct]
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; "hatch the sheet"
5: sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs" [syn: brood, hatch, cover, incubate]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English hache, from Old English hæc; akin to Middle Dutch hecke trapdoor Date: before 12th century 1. a small door or opening (as in an airplane or spaceship) <an escape hatch> 2. a. an opening in the deck of a ship or in the floor or roof of a building b. the covering for such an opening c. hatchway d. compartment 3. floodgate II. verb Etymology: Middle English hacchen; akin to Middle High German hecken to mate Date: 13th century intransitive verb 1. to produce young by incubation 2. a. to emerge from an egg, chrysalis, or pupa b. to give forth young or imagoes 3. to incubate eggs ; brood transitive verb 1. a. to produce (young) from an egg by applying natural or artificial heat b. incubate 1a 2. to bring into being ; originate; especially to concoct in secret <hatch a plot> • hatchability noun • hatchable adjective • hatcher noun III. noun Date: 1601 1. an act or instance of hatching 2. a brood of hatched young IV. transitive verb Etymology: Middle French hacher to chop, slice up, incise with fine lines, from Old French hachier — more at hash Date: 15th century 1. to inlay with narrow bands of distinguishable material <a silver handle hatched with gold> 2. to mark (as a drawing or engraving) with fine closely spaced lines V. noun Date: 1658 line; especially one used to give the effect of shading

U.S. Military Dictionary

An opening in a ship's deck giving access to cargo holds. (JP 4-01.6)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. 1 an opening between two rooms, e.g. between a kitchen and a dining-room for serving food. 2 an opening or door in an aircraft, spacecraft, etc. 3 Naut. a = HATCHWAY. b a trapdoor or cover for this (often in pl.: batten the hatches). 4 a floodgate. Phrases and idioms: down the hatch sl. (as a drinking toast) drink up, cheers! under hatches 1 below deck. 2 a down out of sight. b brought low; dead. Etymology: OE hæcc f. Gmc 2. v. & n. --v. 1 intr. a (often foll. by out) (of a young bird or fish etc.) emerge from the egg. b (of an egg) produce a young animal. 2 tr. incubate (an egg). 3 tr. (also foll. by up) devise (a plot etc.). --n. 1 the act or an instance of hatching. 2 a brood hatched. Etymology: ME hacche, of unkn. orig. 3. v.tr. mark (a surface, e.g. a map or drawing) with close parallel lines. Etymology: ME f. F hacher f. hache HATCHET

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hatch Hatch, n. 1. The act of hatching. 2. Development; disclosure; discovery. --Shak. 3. The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hatch 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 manner 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hatch 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hatch Hatch, n. [OE. hacche, AS. h[ae]c, cf. haca the bar of a door, D. hek gate, Sw. h["a]ck 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hatches, hatching, hatched) 1. When a baby bird, insect, or other animal hatches, or when it is hatched, it comes out of its egg by breaking the shell. As soon as the two chicks hatch, they leave the nest burrow... The young disappeared soon after they were hatched. VERB: V, be V-ed 2. When an egg hatches or when a bird, insect, or other animal hatches an egg, the egg breaks open and a baby comes out. The eggs hatch after a week or ten days... During these periods the birds will lie on the cage floor as if trying to lay or hatch eggs. VERB: V, V n 3. If you hatch a plot or a scheme, you think of it and work it out. He has accused opposition parties of hatching a plot to assassinate the Pope. VERB: V n 4. A hatch is an opening in the deck of a ship, through which people or cargo can go. You can also refer to the door of this opening as a hatch. He stuck his head up through the hatch... N-COUNT 5. A hatch is an opening in a ceiling or a wall, especially between a kitchen and a dining room, which you can pass something such as food through. (mainly BRIT) N-COUNT 6. If someone battens down the hatches, they prepare themselves so that they will be able to survive a coming difficulty or crisis. Many firms are battening down the hatches and preparing to ride out the storm. PHRASE: V inflects

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Breed (from eggs). 2. Quicken (by incubation or by heat). 3. Concoct, devise, plan, contrive, plot, design, scheme, project, brew, lay out, excogitate, think out. II. n. 1. Brood. 2. Hatchway. 3. Hatchway-grating.

Foolish Dictionary

To develop eggs. (See HATCHWAY)

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