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sing. pres. of Hote to be called. Cf. Hatte. [Obs.] "That one hat abstinence." Piers Plowman.

Capable of being, or deserving to be, hated; odious; detestable.

A band round the crown of a hat; sometimes, a band of black cloth, crape, etc., worn as a badge of mourning.

A box for a hat.

To cross with lines in a peculiar manneHatching. Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched. Chapman. Those hatching strokes of the pencil. Dryden.

A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches; -- used mostly in the fisheries.

To draw through the teeth of a hatchel, as flax or hemp, so as to separate the coarse and refuse parts from the fine, fibrous parts.

One who uses a hatchel.

One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching apparatus; an incubator.

A house for hatching fish, etc.

Specifically, a tomahawk. Buried was the bloody hatchet. Longfellow.

1. A person hired to murder or physically attack another; a hit man.

Mineral t

s produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching.

, widower, widow, etc. Called also achievement. His obscure funeral; No trophy, sword, or hatchment o'er his bones. Shak.

Same as Hachure.

A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.

To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. 1 John iii. 15.

Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent. [Archaic or R.] And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's conquest. Dryden.

Hateful; detestable. [Obs.]