Definitions
1.verbTo close with a hatch or hatches.
2.verb(of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
3.verb(of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
4.verbTo incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
5.verbTo devise.
6.verbTo shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
7.verbTo cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
8.nounA method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
9.nounA group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time."We got a good hatching from the swallowtail eggs."
10.nounThe act of an egg hatching, eclosion