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Crosshatching :: Crosshatching (n.) In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle..

Peep :: Peep (v. i.) To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep..

Incubate :: Incubate (v. i. & t.) To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching..

Ovoviviparous :: Ovoviviparous (a.) Oviparous, but hatching the egg while it is within the body, as some fishes and reptiles..

Hatcher :: Hatcher (n.) One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching apparatus; an incubator..

Brood :: Brood (v. i.) To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding..

Tritovum :: Tritovum (n.) An embryonic insect which has twice cast its skin previous to hatching from the egg.

Eccaleobion :: Eccaleobion (n.) A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.

Sitting :: Sitting (n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls..

Fleaking :: Fleaking (n.) A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses..

Thatch :: Thatch (n.) A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching..

Thatching :: Thatching (n.) The materials used for this purpose; thatch.

Thatching :: Thatching (n.) The act or art of covering buildings with thatch; so as to keep out rain, snow, etc..

Hatching :: Hatching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hatc.

Nest :: Nest (n.) The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young.

Palmyra :: Palmyra (n.) A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts..

Reed :: Reed (n.) Straw prepared for thatching a roof.

Crossnath :: Crossnath (v. t.) To shade by means of crosshatching.

Hatching :: Hatching (n.) 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..

Hatch :: Hatch (v. t.) To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

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