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

Chip :: Chip (v. t.) To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery..

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

Rick :: Rick (n.) A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching..

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

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

Hatchery :: Hatchery (n.) A house for hatching fish, etc..

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

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

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

Hatch :: Hatch (n.) The act of hatching.

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..

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..

Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate..

Spelk :: Spelk (n.) A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter.

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..

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

Hachure :: Hachure (n.) A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See Hatching..

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

Thatching :: Thatching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thatc.

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