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

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

The act or art of covering buildings with thatch; so as to keep out rain, snow, etc.

To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding. Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave. Milton.

To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.

grass (Imperata arundinacea) of the Philippine Islands and adjacent countries, used for thatching.

To shade by means of crosshatching.

A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.

A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

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

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

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

A house for hatching fish, etc.

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.

Fig.: To throw; to offer; to propose; to instill. Cæsar also, then hatching tyranny, injected the same scrupulous demurs. Milton.

The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young. The birds of the air have nests. Matt. viii. 20.

Oviparous, but hatching the egg while it is within the body, as some fishes and reptiles.

rposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts.

To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep. There was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. Is. x. 14.