hatchery

[Eng. hatch; -ery.] Commonly used in connection with a fish-hatchery; a house for 1. To produce young from eggs by incubation; to hatching fish, . Since the government undertook IMG:content-1014.png:[blocks in formation] effect. "I have done strange wonders: There's more a hatching too." Beaum. & Flet.: Spanish Curate , iii. hatch (2), v . t . [HATCH (1), s.] To close, fasten, or secure, with, or as with, a hatch or hatches. ""Twere not ami to keep our door hatched ." --Shakesp.: Pericles , iv. 2. hătch (3), v. t. [Fr. hacher =to hack, to hatch, from Ger. hacken =to cut, to hack.] 1. To shade by minute or fine lines, cro ing each other, in drawing and engraving. [HATCHING.] *2. To engrave, to chase. *3. To stain, to spot, to steep.