1607 N. Geffe tr. O. de Serres Perfect Vse Silke-wormes ii. 51 To keepe the boxes warme with the seed in them, and to visit them often to withdraw the hatched Worms.

1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. 40 How much smaller then a hatched Mite must be a Mite upon the Animation of its delineated Parts?

1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 64 These hatched, and those resuscitated worms.

1846 H. J. Whitling tr. C. V. Schmid Easter Eggs 14 She shewed them a hatched egg, and..they saw the chicken pecking his way through the shell.

1879 Scribner's Monthly July 399/1 It was a late-hatched insect, the great number having appeared considerably earlier.

1897 Nature 30 Sept. 523/2 The egg-shells of the hatched chickens were responsible for the mischief.

1939 T. L. Green Pract. Animal Biol. ii. 220 Examine and draw a newly-hatched larva.

1987 M. S. Laverack & J. Dando Lect. Notes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 3) x. 62/1 The hatched egg releases a juvenile gastrotrich that takes about three days to become mature.

2009 Observer 7 June 15/3 The louse lays eggs on the plant and the hatched larvae suck out its sap.

?1777 tr. A. L. de Bonnières Memorial 14 It was the best hatched plot that ever existed.

1840 H. W. Comber Jrnl. 15 Dec. in Tour of Duty (1999) 162 And now after so many hatched up stories people become suspicious of all news.

1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xix. 484 They suspected it to be a hatched rumour.

1871 Godey's Lady's Bk. Oct. 318/2 ‘It's a regular plot!’ she says. ‘A vile, hatched-up plan to take advantage of you.’

1914 J. F. Crigler Saul of Tarsus vi. iii. 165 I have a new hatched scheme, And believe 'twill carry.

1977 Helena (Montana) Independent 5 May 1/1 One man said the Watergate coverup was a ‘hatched plan’ and Nixon is going to stick with it.

2009 M. C. Conacher Crocodile Connection xxi. 168 It appeared to him to be a poorly hatched plan by a group of young officers.

1608 T. Middleton Your Fiue Gallants sig. D3 One gilt hatcht rapier and dagger.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 377 A Gnomon square..upon another of the same; framed upon a Diagonal, as the Hatched part is.

1788 Encycl. Brit. II. 242/1 The rustics may either be plain, hatched, or vermiculated.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. i. iii. 174 The most usual ornaments..were..7. The hatched.

1866 G. Stephens Old-Northern Runic Monuments I. i. 223 Simple carvings, chiefly hatcht work or straight lines.

1926 ‘N. Shute’ Marazan vi. 207 Mountains..compared anxiously with a hatched and contoured map, and ticked off as they are passed.

1958 W. Taylour Mycenean Pottery in Italy & Adjacent Areas v. 158 On this sherd two of the ‘streamers’ have a more complicated hatched pattern.

2015 Evening Standard (Nexis) 15 Oct. 9 She and Mr Hawkins..were in a hatched area in the middle of Priory Road when she was hit by a car.

1758 C. Lyttleton Let. July in L. Dickins & M. Stanton Eighteenth-cent. Corr. (1910) 395 The Cathedral..is entirely of one style of architecture (viz.) what is generally termed the Saxon; thick pillars, round arches and hatched mouldings.

1869 J. H. Parker Conc. Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 3) 156 The Hatched moulding is also not uncommon, and is found early in the style, as it can be cut conveniently without the aid of a chisel, with the pick only.

1911 W. W. Collins Cathedral Cities Italy xx. 287 The Palazzo itself consists of a huge central square block with Sienese battlements—square with hatched mouldings.

1997 A. MacGregor et al. Summary Catal. Continental Archaeol. Coll. Ashmolean Mus. 205/1 At the captive end is a transverse, kidney-shaped field with a hatched moulding around the perimeter.