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