Hatch

·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.