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To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and
engraving. See Hatching. |
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To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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The act of hatching. |
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Development; disclosure; discovery. |
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The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood. |
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A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set
with spikes on the upper edge. |
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A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish. |
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A flood gate; a a sluice gate. |
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A bedstead. |
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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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An opening into, or in search of, a mine. |
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To close with a hatch or hatches. |
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