Meaning of HATCHING
| Pronunciation: | | 'haching
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- [n] shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
- [n] the production of young from an egg
- [adj] good at incubating eggs especially a fowl kept for that purpose; "a brood hen"
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| | Synonyms: | | brood, brooding, crosshatch, hachure, hatch, hatch, oviparous |
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| | See Also: | | birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition, shading | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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}.
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