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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Hatch \Hatch\ (h[a^]ch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hatched} (h[a^]cht); 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}. [1913 Webster] Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched. --Chapman. [1913 Webster] Those hatching strokes of the pencil. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] His weapon hatched in blood. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Hatch \Hatch\, n. 1. The act of hatching. [1913 Webster] 2. Development; disclosure; discovery. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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 originally meaning, to produce under a hatch. [root]12.] 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. [1913 Webster] As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not. --Jer. xvii. 11. [1913 Webster] 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). [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Hatch \Hatch\, n. [OE. hacche, AS. h[ae]c, cf. haca the bar of a door, D. hek gate, Sw. h[aum]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. [1913 Webster] In at the window, or else o'er the hatch. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish. [1913 Webster] 3. A flood gate; a sluice gate. --Ainsworth. [1913 Webster] 4. A bedstead. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 6. (Mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Hatch \Hatch\, v. t. To close with a hatch or hatches. [1913 Webster] 'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched. --Shak. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: hatch 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}]