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▪ I. hatching, vbl. n.1|ˈhætʃɪŋ|
[f. hatch v.1]
a. The action of hatch v.1 in its various senses. Also, that which is hatched, a brood.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 606/6 Pullificacio, hacchynge. 1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions Pref. 18 Euen from the firste hatchynge of the worlde. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 257 Good marriages are not chickins of every dayes hatching. 1840Penny Cycl. XVIII. 478/1 The twenty-one days required for the hatching of chickens. 1905Kynoch Jrnl. Apr.–June 108 The hatchings at the present time are quite up to the average of a good year.
b. attrib. and Comb.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour (1864) III. 24 A shop in Leicester Square, where Cantello's hatching-eggs machine was. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 203 Model of hatching house..fitted up with miniature hatching apparatus..Ferguson hatching jars..hatching troughs..hatching boxes [etc.]. 1884Day in Fisheries Exhib. Lit. II. 75 Carp require a hatching-pond. 1885Chr. World 15 Jan. 37/3 That..hatching-place of hellish plots of wholesale murder.
▪ II. hatching, vbl. n.2
[f. hatch v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of hatch v.2: the drawing of parallel lines so as to produce the effect of shading; chiefly concr., the series of lines so drawn; hatches.
In Heraldry different modes of hatching are used to represent the different tinctures or colours.
1662Evelyn Chalcogr. v. (R.), Hatchings express'd by single strokes are ever the most graceful and natural; though of greater difficulty to execute, especially being any wayes oblique; because they will require to be made broader and fuller in the middle, then either at their entrance, or exit. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 146/1 When one Hatching or Stroke in a piece of Work crosses another..this is called a Double Shadow, also a Double Hatch. 1727–51Chambers Cycl. s.v., The first kind of hatching in pale, or from top to bottom, signifies gules or red. 1816Singer Hist. Cards 212 The cross hatching in the print. 1870Ruskin Lect. Art vi. 163 The attempts to imitate the shading of fine draughts⁓men, by dotting and hatching.
attrib.1695Dryden tr. Du Fresny's Art Paint. Wks. 1808 XVII. 472 Those hatching strokes of the pencil. 1798Characters in Ann. Reg. 360 A hatching style of pencilling.
▪ III. ˈhatching, vbl. n.3 Mining.
= hatch n.1
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Digging, Expressing the random openings which they make in search of mines, by the word hatching, or essay-hatching.
▪ IV. ˈhatching, ppl. a.
[f. hatch v.1 + -ing2.]
That hatches, in various senses.
1856Aird Poet. Wks. 382 Yearning As if to cast some birth of shape from out Her hatching loins. 1892Mrs. H. Ward David Grieve II. 127 To sit at home..‘like a hatching hen’. |