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noun

Hatching n. 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.

verb

Hatch v. t. (past & past part. hatched; pres. part. hatching)

To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching. "Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched." "Those hatching strokes of the pencil."

To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. (Obs.) "His weapon hatched in blood."

Hatch 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. "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."

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. "Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness."

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

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

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Etymology of 'Hatching'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hatching" Quotes from Famous Books

... the date on which this history began, the new arrangements of the household and the relations which grew up between the Abbe Birotteau and Mademoiselle Gamard revealed to the former the existence of a plot which had been hatching for the last ...

— The Vicar of Tours • Honore de Balzac

... could better endure to see those young can-quaffing hucksters shoot off their pellets, so they would keep them from these English Flores poetarum; but now the world is come to that pass, that there starts up every day an old goose that sits hatching up those eggs which have been filched from the nest of crows and kestrels. Here is a book, Ingenioso; why, to condemn it to clear [fire,][39] the usual Tyburn of all misliving papers, were too fair a death for so ...

— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various

... should not be allowed to set on more than twenty-five eggs, although such is her fecundity that she lays more than that in a season. The best time for hatching is from the spring to the autumn equinox. Eggs laid before or after this season, or the first eggs laid by a pullet, should never be set. Hens used for setting should be old rather than young, without sharp beaks and claws, for those so equipped are better employed in laying than in setting. ...

— Roman Farm Management - The Treatises Of Cato And Varro • Marcus Porcius Cato

... seen her before. At last, after allowing me to puzzle for some time, she said: "Sir, you and I met at dinner four years ago, at Mr K—'s house in Demerara." It was very true; but who would have thought of running his memory over to South America, to a cursed alluvial deposite, hatching monthly broods of alligators, and surrounded by naked slaves, whilst out of the window before him his eye rested upon the snow-covered mountains of Switzerland, and he breathed the pure air of William Tell and liberty. This morning I fell in with an acquaintance whom had not seen ...

— Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

... Piazetta, from his well-known sheets in small octavo, with an English lead-pencil upon the finest Dutch paper. In these he not only observed the greatest clearness of outline, but most accurately imitated the hatching of the copperplate with a light hand—only too slightly, as in his desire to avoid hardness he brought no keeping into his sketches. Yet they were always soft and accurate. His unrelaxing and untiring assiduity went so far, that he drew the whole considerable collection ...

— Autobiography • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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