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