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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hatch \Hatch\ (h[a^]ch), verb (used with an object) [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}.
Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched. --Chapman.
Those hatching strokes of the pencil. --Dryden.
2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. [Obs.]
His weapon hatched in blood. --Beau. & Fl.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hatch \Hatch\, verb (used with an object) [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.
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not. --Jer. xvii. 11.
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).
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. --Tennyson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hatch \Hatch\, verb (used without an object) To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hatch \Hatch\, verb (used with an object) To close with a hatch or hatches.
'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hatch \Hatch\, noun
1. The act of hatching.
2. Development; disclosure; discovery. --Shak.
3. The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hatch \Hatch\, noun [OE. hacche, AS. h[ae]c, cf. haca the bar of a door, D. hek gate, Sw. h["a]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.
In at the window, or else o'er the hatch. --Shak.
2. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
3. A flood gate; 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hatch
noun
1: the production of young from an egg [syn: {hatching}]
2: shading consisting of multiple crossing lines [syn: {hatching}, {crosshatch}, {hachure}]
3: a movable barrier covering a hatchway
verb
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}, {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}, {cover}, {incubate}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
268 Moby Thesaurus words for "hatch": French door, angle, archway, autolithograph, back door, barway, be a printmaker, be born, be gravid, be illegitimate, be knocked up, be pregnant, be with child, beget, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, brand, breed, brew, bring forth, bring into being, brood, bulkhead, cabal, call into being, carriage entrance, carry, carry young, cartoon, carve, cause, cellar door, cellarway, chalk, chalk up, character, charcoal, check, check off, chisel, cicatrize, clutch, coin, collude, color, come forth, complot, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct, connive, conspire, contrive, cook up, copy, counterfeit, countermine, counterplot, cover, crayon, crease, create, cribble, crosshatch, culture, cut, dapple, dash, dash off, daub, define, delimit, delineate, demarcate, depict, design, develop, devise, diagram, discolor, discover, doodle, door, doorjamb, doorpost, doorway, dot, draft, draw, dream up, enchase, engender, engineer, engrave, evolve, experience imaginatively, fabricate, fake, fancy, fantasize, farm, farrow, father, fatten, feed, fictionalize, finagle, finesse, fleck, forge, formulate, frame, frame up, freckle, front door, fry, fudge, furrow, gash, gate, gatepost, gateway, generate, gestate, get, get up, give being to, give rise to, grave, groove, grow, hatch a plot, hatch up, hatchway, have birth, hoke up, ideate, imagine, impress, imprint, improvise, incise, incubate, induce, inscribe, intrigue, invent, issue forth, keep, lay a plot, limn, line, lintel, lithograph, litter, machinate, make, make a mark, make do with, make prints, make up, maneuver, manufacture, mark, mark off, mark out, mature, mint, mold, mottle, nest, nick, notch, nurture, occasion, operate, originate, paint, paint a picture, parent, pencil, pepper, picture, picturize, plan, plot, point, porch, portal, porte cochere, portray, postern, prick, print, procreate, produce, propylaeum, provoke, punch, punctuate, puncture, pylon, raise, ranch, rear, riddle, rig, run, scar, scarify, scheme, score, scotch, scrape, scratch, sculpture, scumble, scuttle, seal, seam, set, shade, shape, side door, sire, sit, sketch, spat, spawn, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, stain, stamp, stencil, stigmatize, stile, stipple, storm door, streak, striate, strike out, stripe, suppose, tattoo, think out, think up, threshold, tick, tick off, tint, tollgate, tool, trace, trap, trap door, trump up, turnpike, turnstile, underline, underscore, wangle, work up, young
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Hatch, NM (village, FIPS 31820) Location: 32.66759 N, 107.15579 W Population (1990): 1136 (498 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 87937 Hatch, UT (town, FIPS 33760) Location: 37.65236 N, 112.43260 W Population (1990): 103 (73 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Hatch, NM -- U.S. village in New Mexico Population (2000): 1673 Housing Units (2000): 635 Land area (2000): 3.097088 sq. miles (8.021422 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.097088 sq. miles (8.021422 sq. km) FIPS code: 31820 Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35 Location: 32.664919 N, 107.158668 W ZIP Codes (1990): 87937 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Hatch, NM Hatch
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Hatch, UT -- U.S. town in Utah Population (2000): 127 Housing Units (2000): 81 Land area (2000): 0.269264 sq. miles (0.697390 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.269264 sq. miles (0.697390 sq. km) FIPS code: 33760 Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49 Location: 37.650711 N, 112.435460 W ZIP Codes (1990): Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Hatch, UT Hatch
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