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hatching

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hatchings are distinctive and systematic patterns of lines and dots used for designating heraldic tinctures or other colours on uncoloured surfaces, such as woodcuts or engravings , seals and coins. Several systems of hatchings were developed during the ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Among them is Peter Beaumont, who is busy hatching a plot which could pay spectacular rewards. ▪ Breeding and hatching dates were planned solely for the Christmas market when up to two million birds would be sold. ▪ Each piece ...

Usage examples of hatching.

He later went on to record an album at the Taj Mahal and he was hatching that plan there.

Such was the glory, perfection, order, and unity of this house, that the altar of Damascus could have no peace, the Canaanite no rest, heresy no hatching, schism no footing, Diotrephes no incoming, the papists no couching, and Jezebel no fairding.

A raven swung upside down on a whalebone perch, making the soft chuffing noises of a bird whose vocal cords had felt the heat of a throat-iron upon hatching.

It was indeed an incubator, but the eggs were very small in comparison with those I had seen hatching in ours at the time of my arrival on Mars.

Once the spiderlings begin hatching they will remain clustered within the cocoon.

For how else could Lessa have lived to come to the Weyr and impress Ramoth at the hatching?

The commons, alarmed at the number and insolence of those religionists, desired the king, in an address, to remove by proclamation all papists and nonjurors from the city of London and parts adjacent, and put the laws in execution against them, that the wicked designs they were always hatching might be effectually disappointed.

Bugiardini had put a heavy coat of intonaco on the panel the day before, hatching a rough surface on which he was now plastering the precise area to be painted that day.

Each word of the Tempter fell like a drop of poison on his heart, engendering and hatching the worms within.

More blackflies were hatching from the water, rising up in a buzzing mist.

Tower hatching his crack-brained schemes about discovering some mine in the middle of the Guianan jungle.

Hugh halted to study the symbols carved into the stone: more spirals and lozenges, and long strips of hatching and even, here and there, dots and lines that looked like a calendar.

Why, First Sergeant Tacitus, over in Kilo Company, he caught one of his corporals, brought back a clutch of raptor eggs from Wanderjahr and was hatching them in a homemade incubator behind his wall locker!

The ladies from the central African republics were in national dress, a marvellous cacophony of colour like a hatching of forest butterflies, and their men carried elaborately carved walking-sticks or fly-whisks made from animal tails, and the Muslims amongst them wore embroidered pill-box fezes with the tassels denoting that they were hadji who had made the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Hatching from their black eggs, they detected the dry, indoor air and the false sun of the lightbulbs, and began to shrivel up.