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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}.
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Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched.
--Chapman.
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Those hatching strokes of the pencil. --Dryden.
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2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. [Obs.]
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His weapon hatched in blood. --Beau. & Fl.
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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.
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Hatch \Hatch\, n.
1. The act of hatching.
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2. Development; disclosure; discovery. --Shak.
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3. The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a
brood.
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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.
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As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them
not. --Jer. xvii.
11.
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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).
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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.
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Fancies hatched
In silken-folded idleness. --Tennyson.
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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.
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In at the window, or else o'er the hatch. --Shak.
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2. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
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3. A flood gate; a sluice gate. --Ainsworth.
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4. A bedstead. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
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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.
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6. (Mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
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{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.
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Hatch \Hatch\, v. t.
To close with a hatch or hatches.
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'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched. --Shak.
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