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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

... Douglasses from purgatory, to which Sir John de Walton will give what faith he pleases. You may say, that, for my part, my belief is, either that the sexton is crazed by age, want, and enthusiasm, or that he is connected with some plot which the country people are hatching. You may also say that I shall not use much ceremony with the youth under the care of the Abbot of St. Bride; there is something suspicious in all the occurrences that are now ...

— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott

... of the material integument seems to me purely a matter of the mechanical routine of evolution, a natural process in further and inevitable development, not a finality to individualism!... Fertilisation, gestation, the hatching, growth, the episodic deliverance from encasing matter which is called death, seem to me only the first few basic steps in the sequences of an endless metamorphosis.... My father thought so. His was a very fine mind—is a finer mind still.... Will you understand me ...

— The Firing Line • Robert W. Chambers

... Monsieur de Carnavant resumed. "That's the beginning of a confession, you know. I suspected that you must be behind your husband. Pierre is too stupid to invent the pretty treason you are hatching. I sincerely hope the Bonapartists will give you what I should have asked ...

— The Fortune of the Rougons • Emile Zola

... furies of the times, I could better endure to see those young can-quaffing hucksters shoot off their pellets, so they would keep them from these English Flores poetarum; but now the world is come to that pass, that there starts up every day an old goose that sits hatching up those eggs which have been filched from the nest of crows and kestrels. Here is a book, Ingenioso; why, to condemn it to clear [fire,][39] the usual Tyburn of all misliving papers, were too fair a death ...

— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various

... see her once more. There were things to be said for the first and last time and then be buried for ever. She must leave the country at once. In this sick, mad land, in this whirlpool of secret murder and conspiracy, no one could tell what plot was hatching, what deeds were forward; and he could not yet be sure that no one save himself and herself knew who had killed Foorgat Bey. Her perfect safety lay in instant flight. It was his duty to see that she went, and at once—this very day. He would ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

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