Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hatching"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hatch \Hatch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hatched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Hatching}.] [F. hacher to chop, hack. See {Hash}.]
1. To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and
engraving. See {Hatching}.
Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched.
--Chapman.
Those hatching strokes of the pencil. --Dryden.
2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. [Obs.]
His weapon hatched in blood. --Beau. & Fl.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hatching \Hatch"ing\, n. [See 1st {Hatch}.]
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}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hatching
adj : good at incubating eggs especially a fowl kept for that
purpose; "a brood hen" [syn: {brood}, {brooding}]
n 1: the production of young from an egg [syn: {hatch}]
2: shading consisting of multiple crossing lines [syn: {hatch},
{crosshatch}, {hachure}]
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