verb.
Simple past tense and past participle of hatch.
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adjective.
shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines
adjective.
emerged from an egg
Word Usage
"The time came for the ducks to appear, but not one of the eggs hatched, and it caused much merriment among the neighbors, and the man has never heard the last of _counting ducks before they are hatched_."