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Hatch [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A brood; as many chickens as are produced at once, or by one incubation.

2. The act of exclusion from the egg.

3. Disclosure; discovery.

4. Properly, the grate or frame of cross-bars laid over the opening in a ship's deck, now called hatch-bars. The lid or cover of a hatchway is also called hatches.

5. The opening in a ship's deck, or the passage from one deck to another, the name of the grate itself being used for the opening; but this is more properly called the hatchway.

6. A half-door, or door with an opening over it.

7. Floodgates.

8. In Cornwall, Eng. openings into mines, or in search of them.

9. To be under the hatches, to be confined, or to be in distress, depression or slavery.

Hatch [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To produce young; to bring the young to maturity. Eggs will not hatch without a due degree and continuance of heat.

Hatch [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To produce young from eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat. In Egypt, chickens are hatched by artificial heat.

2. The partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not. Jeremiah 17:11

3. To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce in silence; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy.

4. To shade by lines in drawing and engraving.

5. Those hatching strokes of the pencil.

6. To steep.

Hatch [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of hatching.

2. Development; disclosure; discovery.

3. The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.

4. A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.

5. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.

6. A flood gate; a a sluice gate.

7. A bedstead.

8. 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.

9. An opening into, or in search of, a mine.

Hatch [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.

Hatch [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. To close with a hatch or hatches.

Hatch-boat [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches; -- used mostly in the fisheries.

Hatched [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Hatchel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An instrument formed with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleaning flax or hemp from the tow, hards or coarse part. The hatchel is a large species of comb.

Hatchel [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To draw flax or hemp through the teeth of a hatchel for separating the coarse part and broken pieces of the stalk from the fine fibrous parts.

2. To tease or vex, by sarcasms or reproaches; a vulgar use of the word.

Hatchel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. To tease; to worry; to torment.

Hatcheled [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Cleansed by a hatchel; combed.

Hatcheled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Hatcheler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who uses a hatchel.

Hatcheler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who uses a hatchel.

Hatcheling [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Drawing through the teeth of a hatchel.

Hatcheling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Hatchelled Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Hatchelling Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Hatcher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching apparatus; an incubator.

2. One who contrives or originates; a plotter.

Hatchery [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A house for hatching fish, etc.

Hatchet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand.

2. To take up the hatchet a phrase borrowed from the natives of America, is to make war.

3. To bury the hatchet is to make peace.

Hatchet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand.

2. Specifically, a tomahawk.

Hatchet-face [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A prominent face, like the edge of a hatchet.

Hatchetine [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A substance of the hardness of soft tallow, of a yellowish white or greenish yellow color, found in South Wales.

Hatchettine [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Hatchettite

Hatchettite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Mineral t/ low; a waxy or spermaceti-like substance, commonly of a greenish yellow color.

Hatching [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Hatching [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Hatchment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An armorial escutcheon on a herse at funerals, or in a church.

Hatchment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

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

Hatchure [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Hachure.

Hatchway [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In ships, a square or oblong opening in the deck, affording a passage from one deck, affording a passage from one deck to another, or into the hold or lower apartments.

Hatchway [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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