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Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.

gibbet. [Obs.] Bp. Butler. Fork beam (Shipbuilding), a half beam to support a deck, where hatchways occur. -- Fork chuck (Wood Turning), a lathe center having two prongs for driving the work. -- Fork head. (a) The barbed head of an arrow. (b) The forked end of a rod which forms part of a knuckle joint. -- In fork. (…

they deposit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched. [Written also Fossoria.]

ng giddiness; as, a giddy height; a giddy precipice. Prior. Upon the giddy footing of the hatches. Shak.

With prickly gorse. Cowper. Gorse bird (Zoöl.), the European linnet; -- called also gorse hatcher. [Prov. Eng.] -- Gorse chat (Zoöl.), the winchat. -- Gorse duck, the corncrake; -- called also grass drake, land drake, and corn drake.

A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating. The gride of hatchets fiercely thrown. On wigwam log, and tree, and stone. Whittier.

Having young that are naked when hatched; psilopædic; -- said of certain birds.

n July and the moth appears in August. The eggs are laid on tree trunks, rocks, etc., and hatch in the spring.

engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See Hatching.

A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.

A bargelike vessel with steel hull, large hatchways, and coal transporters, for coaling war vessels from its own hold or from other colliers.

A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air.

n leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.

One who heles or covers; hence, a tiler, slater, or thatcher. [Obs.] [Written also heler.] Usher.

The handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze.

Same as Hatchel.

See Hatchel.

To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.

A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process. Ray.

That which incubates, especially, an apparatus by means of which eggs are hatched by artificial heat.