Hatch

1. v. t. To close with a hatch or hatches.
2. v. t. To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
3. v. t. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. v. i. To produce young; — said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; — said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
7. n. The act of hatching.
8. n. Development; disclosure; discovery.
9. n. The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
10. n. A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
11. 1v. t. 1 To close with a hatch or hatches.
12. 1v. t. 1 To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.