Hatch (hăch), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hatched (hăcht);
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.
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
orig. meaning, to produce under a hatch. √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.
Hatch, v. i. To produce young; --
said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of
birds, fishes, insects, etc.
Hatch, n. 1. The
act of hatching.
2. Development; disclosure; discovery.
Shak.
3. The chickens produced at once or by one
incubation; a brood.
Hatch, n. [OE. hacche, AS.
hæc, cf. haca the bar of a door, D. hek
gate, Sw. häck 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.
Hatch, v. t. To close with a hatch
or hatches.
'T were not amiss to keep our door
hatched.
Shak.
