hatch

hatch has 23 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• v. t.. To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
• v. t.. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
• v. t.. To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched.
• v. t.. To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy.
• v. i.. To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
• n.. The act of hatching.
• n.. Development; disclosure; discovery.
• n.. The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
• n.. A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
• n.. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
• n.. A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
• n.. A bedstead.