Word Meanings - HALF-HATCHED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• HATCHURE
  See HACHURE
• HATCHETTINE; HATCHETTITE
  Mineral t
• HATCHET MAN
  1. A person hired to murder or physically attack another; a hit man.
• HATCHEL
  An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle. (more info) Dan. hegle, Sw. häkla, and prob. to E. hook. See Hook, and cf.
• HATCH
  1. To cross with lines in a peculiar manneHatching. Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched. Chapman. Those hatching strokes of the pencil. Dryden. 2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. His weapon hatched in blood. Beau. & Fl.
• HATCHWAY
  A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.
• HATCHERY
  A house for hatching fish, etc.
• HATCHER
  1. One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching apparatus; an incubator. 2. One who contrives or originates; a plotter. A great hatcher and breeder of business. Swift.
• HATCH-BOAT
  A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches; -- used mostly in the fisheries.
• HATCHET
  1. A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand. 2. Specifically, a tomahawk. Buried was the bloody hatchet. Longfellow. Hatchet face, a thin, sharp face, like the edge of a hatchet; hence: Hatchet-faced, sharp-visaged. Dryden. -- To
• HATCHING
  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.
• HATCHMENT
  A sort of panel, upon which the arms of a deceased person are temporarily displayed, -- usually on the walls of his dwelling. It is lozenge-shaped or square, but is hung cornerwise. It is used in England as a means of giving public notification
• HATCHELER
  One who uses a hatchel.
• SCHATCHEN
  A person whose business is marriage brokage; a marriage broker, esp. among certain Jews.
• HALF-HATCHED
  Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs. Gay.
• THATCHING
  1. The act or art of covering buildings with thatch; so as to keep out rain, snow, etc. 2. The materials used for this purpose; thatch.
• THATCHER
  One who thatches.
• QUICKHATCH
  The wolverine.
• THATCH
  A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching. Thatch sparrow, the house sparrow. (more info) cover, D. dak a roof, dekken to cover, G. dach a roof, decken 8cover, Icel. Þak a roof, Sw. tak, Dan.
• STONEHATCH
  The ring plover, or dotterel.
• NUTHATCH
  Any one of several species of birds of the genus Sitta, as the European species . The white-breasted nuthatch (S. Carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch , the pygmy nuthatch , and others, are American.