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Hatching   /hˈætʃɪŋ/   Listen
Hatching

noun
1.
The production of young from an egg.  Synonym: hatch.
2.
Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines.  Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatch.


Hatch

verb
(past & past part. hatched; pres. part. hatching)
1.
Emerge from the eggs.
2.
Devise or invent.  Synonyms: concoct, dream up, think of, think up.  "No-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"
3.
Inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating.
4.
Draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper.
5.
Sit on (eggs).  Synonyms: brood, cover, incubate.  "The female covers the eggs"



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"Hatching" Quotes from Famous Books



... hand of friendship out and you evade it, The moment I am gone, back comes your outlaw. You say you have no power with your own child! Well, then I'll take her back this very night; Back to the court with me. How do I know What treasons you are hatching here? I'll take her As hostage ...
— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes
... it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs,' said the Pigeon; 'but I must be on the look-out for serpents night and day! Why, I haven't had a wink ...
— Alice's Adventures in Wonderland • Lewis Carroll
... in a tree, he and his wife, in all delight of life, till they came to the time of the hatching of their young, which was the midsummer season, when a Serpent issued from its hole and crawled up the tree wriggling around the branches till it came to the Crows' nest, where it coiled itself up and there abode all the days of the summer, whilst the Crow was driven away and found no opportunity ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton
... cocoons—this being the succession of changes. That is, the moth lays eggs which are collected and kept cool till the proper season for incubation. They are then kept warm during the time occupied in hatching, sometimes about the person of the raiser. After a time these eggs hatch out worms, tiny things hardly larger than the head of a pin. After the worms are hatched they require constant care and feeding with chopped mulberry leaves till they ...
— Textiles • William H. Dooley
... of which he was well acquainted, as he told us he had had one of the mounds cut completely in two, so as to examine the interior. The under part alone of the mound is inhabited by the ants; the upper portion serving as a roof to keep the lower warm and moist for hatching the eggs. His description put me somewhat in mind of the Pyramids of Egypt. The larger portion is solid. In the centre, just above the ground, is the chief cell, the residence of the queen and her husband. Round this royal chamber is found a whole labyrinth ...
— In the Wilds of Africa • W.H.G. Kingston


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