hatched Definition

hatch²
verb hatches, hatched, hatching

intr
1. Said of an animal or bird: to break out of an egg.

Form: hatch out (also)
intr
2. Said of an egg: to break open, allowing young animals or birds to be born.
3. To produce (young animals or birds) from eggs.
4. To plan or devise (a plot, scheme, etc), especially in secret.

Thesaurus: incubate, conceive, concoct, contrive, design, develop, devise, originate, plan, plot, scheme.
Form: hatch something up (often)

noun hatches

1. The act or process of hatching.
2. A brood of newly hatched animals.

Idiom: count one's chickens before they are hatched

Note: usually with negatives
To rely too much on some uncertain future event.

Etymology: 13c.

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hatch³
verb

hatches, hatched, hatching
1. Said of the surface of a map, drawing, engraving, etc: to shade with close parallel or crossed lines.

Derivative: hatching
noun

Etymology: 15c: from French hacher to chop, from hache hatchet.