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   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.
   
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   Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched. Chapman.
   
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   Those hatching strokes of the pencil. Dryden.
   
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   2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. [Obs.]
   
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   His weapon hatched in blood. Beau. & Fl.
   
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   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 originally 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.
   
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   As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not. Jer. xvii. 11.
   
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   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).
   
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   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.
   
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   Fancies hatched
   
   In silken-folded idleness. Tennyson.
   
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   Hatch, v. i. 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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   Hatch, n.
   1. The act of hatching.
   
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   2. Development; disclosure; discovery.  Shak.
   
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   3. The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
   
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   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.
   
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   In at the window, or else o'er the hatch. Shak.
   
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   2. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
   
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   3. A flood gate; a sluice gate.  Ainsworth.
   
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   4. A bedstead. [Scot.]  Sir W. Scott.
   
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   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.
   
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   6. (Mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
   
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   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.
   
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   Hatch, v. t. To close with a hatch or hatches.
   
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   'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched. Shak.
   
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