'Hatching' definitions:
Definition of 'hatching'
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Definition of 'Hatching'
From: GCIDE
- Hatch \Hatch\ (h[a^]ch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hatched (h[a^]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]
Definition of 'Hatching'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'hatching'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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