His weapon hatched in blood.
Beau. & Fl.
Hatch, v. t. [OE. hacchen, hetchen; akin to G. hecken, Dan. hekke; cf.
MHG. hagen bull; perh. akin to E. hatch a half door, and orig. 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.
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not.
Jer. xvii. 11.
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).
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.
Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness.
Tennyson.
Hatch, v. i. To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the
egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
Hatch, n. 1. The act of hatching.