Definition of hatching

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Hatching (n.) 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..

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Palmyra :: Palmyra (n.) A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts..
Peep :: Peep (v. i.) To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep..
Reed :: Reed (n.) Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
Eccaleobion :: Eccaleobion (n.) A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.
Thatch :: Thatch (n.) A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching..
Hatch :: Hatch (n.) The act of hatching.
Sitting :: Sitting (n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls..
Chip :: Chip (v. t.) To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery..
Hatcher :: Hatcher (n.) One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching apparatus; an incubator..
Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate..
Incubation :: Incubation (n.) A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process..
Crossnath :: Crossnath (v. t.) To shade by means of crosshatching.
Brood :: Brood (v. i.) To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding..
Rick :: Rick (n.) A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching..
Tritovum :: Tritovum (n.) An embryonic insect which has twice cast its skin previous to hatching from the egg.
Spelk :: Spelk (n.) A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter.
Ovoviviparous :: Ovoviviparous (a.) Oviparous, but hatching the egg while it is within the body, as some fishes and reptiles..
Hatchery :: Hatchery (n.) A house for hatching fish, etc..
Crosshatching :: Crosshatching (n.) In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle..
Hatch :: Hatch (v. t.) To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
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