It appeared that minute, life bearing spores drifting in clouds across a distant galaxy had been touched by unknown rays from a dying sun, and had hatched into a colossal monster
n. [ See 1st Hatch. ] A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching. [ 1913 Webster ]