[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hatch \hatch\ ha^ch, v. t. imp.  p. p. hatched
   ha^cht; 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.
      1913 webster

            shall win this sword, silvered and hatched.
                                                  --chapman.
      1913 webster

            those hatching strokes of the pencil. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. to cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. obs.
      1913 webster

            his weapon hatched in blood.          --beau.  fl.
      1913 webster
see also:
hatched hatching hash 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
   1913 webster
see also:
hatch crosshatching 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

hatching
     n 1: the production of young from an egg syn: hatch
     2: shading consisting of multiple crossing lines syn: hatch,
         crosshatch, hachure
see also:
hatch crosshatch hachure 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

144 moby thesaurus words for "hatching":
   accouchement, arabesque, authorship, band, bar, basketry,
   basketwork, beginning, birth, birth throes, birthing,
   blessed event, burr, cancellation, childbearing, childbed,
   childbirth, chiseling, coinage, conception, concoction,
   confinement, contrivance, contriving, creation, creative effort,
   cross-hatching, crossing-out, dash, delineation, delivery,
   demitint, devising, diagonal, dotted line, engravement, engraving,
   etch, etching, fabrication, filigree, fret, fretwork,
   gem-engraving, generation, genesis, giving birth, glass-cutting,
   glyptic, grate, grating, graving, grid, gridiron, grille,
   grillwork, hachure, hairline, half tint, having a baby,
   improvisation, incision, inscript, inscription, interlacement,
   intertexture, intertwinement, invention, labor, lace, lacery,
   lacework, lacing, lattice, latticework, line, lineation, lining,
   making do, marking, mesh, meshes, meshwork, mintage, multiparity,
   nascency, nativity, net, netting, network, origination,
   parturition, plexure, plexus, raddle, reticle, reticulation,
   reticule, reticulum, riddle, score, scoring, scratch, scratching,
   screen, screening, sieve, slash, slashing, stipple, stippling,
   streak, streaking, striation, strip, stripe, striping, stroke,
   sublineation, texture, the nativity, the stork, tint, tissue,
   tooling, tracery, travail, trellis, trelliswork, type-cutting,
   underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, virgule, wattle,
   weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, wicker, wickerwork

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