Noun
a movable barrier covering a hatchway

Noun
shading consisting of multiple crossing lines

Noun
the production of young from an egg

Verb
sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"

Verb
emerge from the eggs; "young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch"

Verb
draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper; "hatch the sheet"

Verb
devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"

Verb
inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating

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v. t.
To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

v. t.
To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.

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.

v. t.
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.

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

n.
The act of hatching.

n.
Development; disclosure; discovery.

n.
The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.

n.
A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.

n.
A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.

n.
A flood gate; a a sluice gate.

n.
A bedstead.

n.
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.

n.
An opening into, or in search of, a mine.

v. t.
To close with a hatch or hatches.

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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 manne in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched.

Those hatching strokes of the pencil.

2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. [Obs.]

His weapon hatched in blood.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hatch

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

Hatch

Hatch, n. [OE. hacche, AS. h'91c, cf. haca the bar of a door, D. hek gate, Sw. h'84ck 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.

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.

Hatch

Hatch, v. t. To close with a hatch or hatches.

'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched.

To cross with lines in a peculiar manne in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

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.

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

The act of hatching.

A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.

To close with a hatch or hatches.