hatch

Definitions

1. 1.To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. [Obs.] His weapon hatched in blood. Beau. & Fl.
2. 2.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.
3. 3.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).
4. 4.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.
5. 5.To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
6. 6.The act of hatching.
7. 7.Development; disclosure; discovery. Shak.
8. 8.The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
9. 9.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.
10. 10.A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
11. 11.A flood gate; a a sluice gate. Ainsworth.
12. 12.A bedstead. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
13. 13.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.
14. 14.(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.
15. 15.To close with a hatch or hatches. 'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched. Shak

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is to cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. [Obs.] His weapon hatched in blood. Beau. & Fl called?
• What is 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) called?
• What is to produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc called?
• What is development; disclosure; discovery. Shak called?
• What is the chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is a frame or weir in a river, for catching fish called?
• What is a flood gate; a a sluice gate. Ainsworth called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is to close with a hatch or hatches. 'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched. Shak called?