n. [ AS. hæt, hætt; akin to Dan. hat, Sw. hatt, Icel. hattr a hat, höttr hood, D. hoed hat, G. hut, OHG. huot, and prob. to L. cassis helmet. √13. Cf. Hood. ] A covering for the head; esp., one with a crown and brim, made of various materials, and worn by men or women for protecting the head from the sun or weather, or for ornament. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hat block, a block on which hats are formed or dressed. --
To pass around the hat, to take up a collection of voluntary contributions, which are often received in a hat. [ Colloq. ] Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

sing. pres. of Hote to be called. Cf. Hatte. [ Obs. ] “That one hat abstinence.” Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Hot. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Hate. ] Capable of being, or deserving to be, hated; odious; detestable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A band round the crown of a hat; sometimes, a band of black cloth, crape, etc., worn as a badge of mourning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A box for a hat. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hatched p. pr. & vb. n. Hatching. ] [ F. hacher to chop, hack. See Hash. ] 1. To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those hatching strokes of the pencil. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His weapon hatched in blood. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. hacchen, hetchen; akin to G. hecken, Dan. hekke; cf. MHG. hagen bull; perh. akin to E. hatch a half door, and originally meaning, to produce under a hatch. √12. ] 1. To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not. Jer. xvii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

For the hens do not sit upon the eggs; but by keeping them in a certain equal heat they [ the husbandmen ] bring life into them and hatch them. Robynson (More's Utopia). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fancies hatched
In silken-folded idleness. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hacche, AS. hæc, cf. haca the bar of a door, D. hek gate, Sw. häck coop, rack, Dan. hekke manger, rack. Prob. akin to E. hook, and first used of something made of pieces fastened together. Cf. Heck, Hack a frame. ] 1. A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge. [ 1913 Webster ]

In at the window, or else o'er the hatch. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A flood gate; a sluice gate. Ainsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A bedstead. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Booby hatch,
Buttery hatch,
Companion hatch, etc. See under Booby, Buttery, etc. --
To batten down the hatches (Naut.), to lay tarpaulins over them, and secure them with battens. --
To be under hatches, to be confined below in a vessel; to be under arrest, or in slavery, distress, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]