1. Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
   "The artist used hatching to create depth and texture in the pencil drawing";
   - hatch, crosshatch, hachure
    
2. The production of young from an egg
   "The hatching of sea turtle eggs on the beach was a sight to behold";
   - hatch

1. Emerge from the egg
   "young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch"
    
2. Sit on (eggs)
   "The hen hatched the eggs for three weeks";
   - brood, cover, incubate
    
3. Devise or invent
   "He hatched a plan to get rich quickly";
   - think up, think of, dream up, concoct, hit on
    
4. Draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper
   "hatch the sheet"
    
5. Inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating
   "The jeweller hatched the watch face with gold lines"

Derived forms: hatchings

Type of: be born, birth, birthing, create by mental act, create mentally, giving birth, inlay, line, multiply, parturition, procreate, reproduce, shading

Encyclopedia: Hatching, Matching and Dispatching