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Hatching

Hatching Meaning & Definition
Hatching Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Hatching?

[n] shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
[n] the production of young from an egg
[adj] good at incubating eggs especially a fowl kept for that purpose; "a brood hen"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Hatching: brood | brooding | crosshatch | hachure | hatch | hatch | oviparous

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

See Also | birth | birthing | giving birth | parturition | shading

Hatching In Webster's Dictionary

\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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