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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 shade by means of crosshatching.

In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle.

Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs. Gay.

birds of the genus Sitta, as the European species (Sitta Europæa). The white-breasted nuthatch (S. Carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch (S. Canadensis), the pygmy nuthatch (S. pygmæa), and others, are American.

The wolverine.

A person whose business is marriage brokage; a marriage broker, esp. among certain Jews.

The ring plover, or dotterel. [Prov. Eng.]