hatching

verb

To close with a hatch or hatches.

1. (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
2. (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
3. To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
4. To devise.

1. To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.

1. A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
2. A group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time.

   We got a good hatching from the swallowtail eggs.

3. The act of an egg hatching, eclosion