Part 5145

<blockquote>Those <b>hatching</b> strokes of the pencil. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>His weapon <b>hatched</b> in blood. <i>Beau. & Fl.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Hatch</h1> <Xpage=673>

<hw>Hatch</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>hacchen</ets>, <ets>hetchen</ets>; akin to G. <ets>hecken</ets>, Dan. <ets>hekke</ets>; cf. MHG. <ets>hagen</ets> bull; perh. akin to E. <ets>hatch</ets> a half door, and orig. meaning, to produce under a hatch. <?/<?/<?/.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); <as>as, the young when <ex>hatched</ex></as>.</def>

<i>Paley.</i>

<blockquote>As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and <b>hatcheth</b> them not. <i>Jer. xvii. 11.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>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 <b>hatch</b> them. <i>Robynson (More's Utopia).</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; <as>as, to <ex>hatch</ex> mischief; to <ex>hatch</ex> heresy.</as></def>

<i>Hooker.</i>

<blockquote>Fancies <b>hatched</b> In silken-folded idleness. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Hatch</h1> <Xpage=673>

<hw>Hatch</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.</def>

<h1>Hatch</h1> <Xpage=673>

<hw>Hatch</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of hatching.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Development; disclosure; discovery.</def>

<i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.</def>

<h1>Hatch</h1> <Xpage=673>

<hw>Hatch</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>hacche</ets>, AS. <ets>h\'91c</ets>, cf. <ets>haca</ets> the bar of a door, D. <ets>hek</ets> gate, Sw. <ets>h\'84ck</ets> coop, rack, Dan. <ets>hekke</ets> manger, rack. Prob. akin to E. <ets>hook</ets>, and first used of something made of pieces fastened together. Cf. <er>Heck</er>, <er>Hack</er> a frame.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.</def>

<blockquote>In at the window, or else o'er the <b>hatch</b>.

<i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A flood gate; a a sluice gate.</def>

<i>Ainsworth.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A bedstead.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>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.</def>