Hatch \Hatch\ (h[a^]ch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hatched
   (h[a^]cht); p. pr. & vb. n. Hatching.] [F. hacher to chop,
   hack. See Hash.]
   1. To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and
      engraving. See Hatching.
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            Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched.
                                                  --Chapman.
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            Those hatching strokes of the pencil. --Dryden.
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   2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. [Obs.]
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            His weapon hatched in blood.          --Beau. & Fl.
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	Hatching \Hatch"ing\, n. [See 1st Hatch.]
   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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	hatching
    n 1: the production of young from an egg [syn: hatch,
         hatching]
    2: shading consisting of multiple crossing lines [syn: hatch,
       hatching, crosshatch, hachure]

	

	144 Moby Thesaurus words for "hatching":
   accouchement, arabesque, authorship, band, bar, basketry,
   basketwork, beginning, birth, birth throes, birthing,
   blessed event, burr, cancellation, childbearing, childbed,
   childbirth, chiseling, coinage, conception, concoction,
   confinement, contrivance, contriving, creation, creative effort,
   cross-hatching, crossing-out, dash, delineation, delivery,
   demitint, devising, diagonal, dotted line, engravement, engraving,
   etch, etching, fabrication, filigree, fret, fretwork,
   gem-engraving, generation, genesis, giving birth, glass-cutting,
   glyptic, grate, grating, graving, grid, gridiron, grille,
   grillwork, hachure, hairline, half tint, having a baby,
   improvisation, incision, inscript, inscription, interlacement,
   intertexture, intertwinement, invention, labor, lace, lacery,
   lacework, lacing, lattice, latticework, line, lineation, lining,
   making do, marking, mesh, meshes, meshwork, mintage, multiparity,
   nascency, nativity, net, netting, network, origination,
   parturition, plexure, plexus, raddle, reticle, reticulation,
   reticule, reticulum, riddle, score, scoring, scratch, scratching,
   screen, screening, sieve, slash, slashing, stipple, stippling,
   streak, streaking, striation, strip, stripe, striping, stroke,
   sublineation, texture, the Nativity, the stork, tint, tissue,
   tooling, tracery, travail, trellis, trelliswork, type-cutting,
   underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, virgule, wattle,
   weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, wicker, wickerwork