·noun A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
II. Hatch ·noun A Bedstead.
III. Hatch ·noun Development; disclosure; discovery.
IV. Hatch ·vt To close with a hatch or hatches.
V. Hatch ·noun An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
VI. Hatch ·noun The act of Hatching.
VII. Hatch ·noun A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
VIII. Hatch ·noun The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
IX. Hatch ·noun A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
X. Hatch ·vt To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. ·see Hatching.
XI. Hatch ·vi To produce young;
— said of eggs; to come forth from the egg;
— said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, ·etc.
XII. Hatch ·vt To Cross; to Spot; to Stain; to Steep.
XIII. Hatch ·vt 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.
XIV. Hatch ·vt 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.
XV. Hatch ·noun 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.