Word of the Day - January 13, 2025
HATCHING
- (of a young bird, fish, or reptile) Emerge from its egg
- (of an egg) Open and produce a young animal
- a series of lines used to show shading [n HATCHINGS] / HATCH, to bring forth young from an egg [v]
- Cause (a young animal) to emerge from its egg
- Conspire to devise (a plot or plan)
- Incubate (an egg)
- refers to the drawing or engraving of lines close together as a method of shading, or to a pattern so created.
- shading in fine lines [n -S]
