Hatch \Hatch\ (h[a^]ch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hatched
   (h[a^]cht); 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 \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 \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 \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.
   [root]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.
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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 \Hatch\, n. [OE. hacche, AS. h[ae]c, cf. haca the bar of a
   door, D. hek gate, Sw. h[aum]ck 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 \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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	hatch
    n 1: the production of young from an egg [syn: hatch,
         hatching]
    2: shading consisting of multiple crossing lines [syn: hatch,
       hatching, crosshatch, hachure]
    3: a movable barrier covering a hatchway
    v 1: emerge from the eggs; "young birds, fish, and reptiles
         hatch"
    2: devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly";
       "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"
       [syn: think up, think of, dream up, hatch, concoct]
    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; "hatch the sheet"
    5: sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"
       [syn: brood, hatch, cover, incubate]

	

	268 Moby Thesaurus words for "hatch":
   French door, angle, archway, autolithograph, back door, barway,
   be a printmaker, be born, be gravid, be illegitimate,
   be knocked up, be pregnant, be with child, beget, blaze,
   blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, brand, breed, brew, bring forth,
   bring into being, brood, bulkhead, cabal, call into being,
   carriage entrance, carry, carry young, cartoon, carve, cause,
   cellar door, cellarway, chalk, chalk up, character, charcoal,
   check, check off, chisel, cicatrize, clutch, coin, collude, color,
   come forth, complot, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct,
   connive, conspire, contrive, cook up, copy, counterfeit,
   countermine, counterplot, cover, crayon, crease, create, cribble,
   crosshatch, culture, cut, dapple, dash, dash off, daub, define,
   delimit, delineate, demarcate, depict, design, develop, devise,
   diagram, discolor, discover, doodle, door, doorjamb, doorpost,
   doorway, dot, draft, draw, dream up, enchase, engender, engineer,
   engrave, evolve, experience imaginatively, fabricate, fake, fancy,
   fantasize, farm, farrow, father, fatten, feed, fictionalize,
   finagle, finesse, fleck, forge, formulate, frame, frame up,
   freckle, front door, fry, fudge, furrow, gash, gate, gatepost,
   gateway, generate, gestate, get, get up, give being to,
   give rise to, grave, groove, grow, hatch a plot, hatch up,
   hatchway, have birth, hoke up, ideate, imagine, impress, imprint,
   improvise, incise, incubate, induce, inscribe, intrigue, invent,
   issue forth, keep, lay a plot, limn, line, lintel, lithograph,
   litter, machinate, make, make a mark, make do with, make prints,
   make up, maneuver, manufacture, mark, mark off, mark out, mature,
   mint, mold, mottle, nest, nick, notch, nurture, occasion, operate,
   originate, paint, paint a picture, parent, pencil, pepper, picture,
   picturize, plan, plot, point, porch, portal, porte cochere,
   portray, postern, prick, print, procreate, produce, propylaeum,
   provoke, punch, punctuate, puncture, pylon, raise, ranch, rear,
   riddle, rig, run, scar, scarify, scheme, score, scotch, scrape,
   scratch, sculpture, scumble, scuttle, seal, seam, set, shade,
   shape, side door, sire, sit, sketch, spat, spawn, speck, speckle,
   splotch, spot, stain, stamp, stencil, stigmatize, stile, stipple,
   storm door, streak, striate, strike out, stripe, suppose, tattoo,
   think out, think up, threshold, tick, tick off, tint, tollgate,
   tool, trace, trap, trap door, trump up, turnpike, turnstile,
   underline, underscore, wangle, work up, young

	

	Hatch, NM -- U.S. village in New Mexico
   Population (2000):    1673
   Housing Units (2000): 635
   Land area (2000):     3.097088 sq. miles (8.021422 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    3.097088 sq. miles (8.021422 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            31820
   Located within:       New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
   Location:             32.664919 N, 107.158668 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     87937
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Hatch, NM
    Hatch

	

	Hatch, UT -- U.S. town in Utah
   Population (2000):    127
   Housing Units (2000): 81
   Land area (2000):     0.269264 sq. miles (0.697390 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.269264 sq. miles (0.697390 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            33760
   Located within:       Utah (UT), FIPS 49
   Location:             37.650711 N, 112.435460 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):    
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Hatch, UT
    Hatch