v. t. To shade by means of crosshatching. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hatched 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those hatching strokes of the pencil. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His weapon hatched in blood. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not. Jer. xvii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

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). [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fancies hatched
In silken-folded idleness. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of hatching. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Development; disclosure; discovery. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

In at the window, or else o'er the hatch. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A flood gate; a sluice gate. Ainsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A bedstead. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To close with a hatch or hatches. [ 1913 Webster ]

'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches; -- used mostly in the fisheries. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. [ p. p. from hatch, v. i. ] produced from an egg. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. hechele, hekele; akin to D. hekel, G. hechel, Dan. hegle, Sw. häkla, and prob. to E. hook. See Hook, and cf. Hackle, Heckle. ] An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hatcheled or Hatchelled p. pr. & vb. n. Hatcheling or Hatchelling. ] [ OE. hechelen, hekelen; akin to D. hekelen, G. hecheln, Dan. hegle, Sw. häkla. See Hatchel, n. ] 1. To draw through the teeth of a hatchel, as flax or hemp, so as to separate the coarse and refuse parts from the fine, fibrous parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To tease; to worry; to torment. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who uses a hatchel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching apparatus; an incubator. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who contrives or originates; a plotter. [ 1913 Webster ]

A great hatcher and breeder of business. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house for hatching fish, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. hachette, dim. of hache ax. See 1st Hatch, Hash. ] 1. A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically, a tomahawk. [ 1913 Webster ]

Buried was the bloody hatchet. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

hatchet face, a thin, sharp face, like the edge of a hatchet; hence:
hatchet-faced, sharp-visaged. Dryden. --
To bury the hatchet, to make peace or become reconciled. --
To take up the hatchet, to make or declare war. The last two phrases are derived from the practice of the American Indians.

n. 1. A person hired to murder or physically attack another; a hit man. [ PJC ]

2. A person who deliberately tries to ruin the reputation of another, often unscrupulously, by slander or other malicious communication, often with a political motive, and sometimes for pay. [ PJC ]

{ } n. [ Named after the discoverer, Charles Hatchett. ] (Min.) Mineral tallow; a waxy or spermaceti-like substance, commonly of a greenish yellow color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 1st Hatch. ] A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrupt. fr. achievement. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Her.) A sort of panel, upon which the arms of a deceased person are temporarily displayed, -- usually on the walls of his dwelling. It is lozenge-shaped or square, but is hung cornerwise. It is used in England as a means of giving public notification of the death of the deceased, his or her rank, whether married, widower, widow, etc. Called also achievement. [ 1913 Webster ]

His obscure funeral;
No trophy, sword, or hatchment o'er his bones. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sword or other mark of the profession of arms; in general, a mark of dignity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let there be deducted, out of our main potation,
Five marks in hatchments to adorn this thigh. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Hachure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. nuthake. See 2d Hack. ] (Zool.) Any one of several species of birds of the genus Sitta, as the European species (Sitta Europaea). The white-breasted nuthatch (Sitta Carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch (Sitta Canadensis), the pygmy nuthatch (Sitta pygmaea), and others, are American. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the American Indian name. ] (Zool.) The wolverine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Yiddish, fr. NHeb. shadkhān, fr. shādakh to bring about a marriage, orig., to persuade. ] A person whose business is marriage brokage; a marriage broker, esp. among certain Jews. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) The ring plover, or dotterel. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. thak, AS. þæc a roof; akin to þeccean to cover, D. dak a roof, dekken to cover, G. dach a roof, decken 8cover, Icel. þak a roof, Sw. tak, Dan. tag, Lith. stōgas, Ir. teagh a house, Gael. teach, tigh, W. ty, L. tegere to cover, toga a toga, Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, a roof, &unr_; to cover, Skr. sthag. Cf. Deck, Integument, Tile, Toga. ] 1. Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thatch sparrow, the house sparrow. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Thatched p. pr. & vb. n. Thatching. ] [ From Thatch, n.: cf. OE. thecchen, AS. &unr_;eccean to cover. ] To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance; as, to thatch a roof, a stable, or a stack of grain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who thatches. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or art of covering buildings with thatch; so as to keep out rain, snow, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The materials used for this purpose; thatch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Any object whose name is forgotten, or not known. [ Also spelled whachamacallit. ]
Syn. -- thingumbob, doohickey, dingus, whatsis, what-do-you-call-it. [ PJC ]