hat 
I said nothing to you, but gave you my hat as I passed 
you. History of Col. Jack (1723). 
To hang up one's hat in a house, to make one's self at 
home ; be continually in another's house, especially if not 
very welcome. 
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heck 1 ), < ME. hatehe, hacche, hetche, hccche, also 
unassibilated heke ("hekke), hek, hee, a half- 
door, wicket, gate, in pi. hacches, hatches (of 
a ship), < AS. hose (luecc-), fern, (in dat. hcecce, 
The merchants of Calcutta are celebrated for a frank hecce, hacee), appar. meaning a gate or wicket 
and liberal hospitality, which dates from the time when (also in comp. h<ec-wer, a weir for catching fish: 
every European huny up his hat in his banker's or his see def. 7), = MD. heck, hecke, a bar, a rail, the 
agent's house on his arriving in the country. baror holt of a donr aerating a flnrxl cratn prp 
W. H. Xusiell, Diary in India, I. 107. )OT ' a f atln &, a 1 , . , g T n , i ' 
D. hek, a rail, fence, gate, = MLG. heck, LG. hek, 
a lattice, a gate or turnstile (kese-hek, a rack for 
cheese), = Sw. hack, a rack, = Dan. hoik, haikke, 
a rack; prop., it seems, anything made with 
bars or cross-bars, being closely connected 
with AS. hcec (h&ce-), fern, (in dat. hcecce), hcecce, 
neut. nom., a crosier, < haca (only in glosses, 
where sometimes less prop. nom. haxa), a bar, 
the bar or bolt of a door, prob. orig. a hook, as 
in mod. E. dial, hake, a hook: see hake 1 and 
hake 2 .] 1 . A half-door, or a door with an open- 
ing over it ; a grated or latticed door or gate ; 
a wicket. 
To have a brick in one's hat. See bricw. TO pass 
round the hat, to present a hat or any other convenient 
receptacle to receive contributions, as at a public meet- 
ing ; hence, to ask for money for charitable use or some 
purpose of common interest. 
Lamartine, after passing round the hat in Europe and 
America, takes to his bed from wounded pride when the 
French Senate votes him a subsidy, and sheds tears of 
humiliation. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 870. 
To thumb the hat, to determine the order or succession 
of the watches on board a fishing-schooner. Five or more 
men, each representing a dory, form a circle about the 
captain, placing each a thumb on the inside of the rim 
of a hat. The skipper, beginning at random, counts on 
the thumbs until he reaches the seventh. This seventh 
man has the first watch, the process being repeated for 
the other watches. 
hat 1 (hat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. hatted, ppr. hat- 
ting. [< hat 1 , n.J 1. To provide with a hat : 
used chiefly in composition: as, straw-hatted 
girls. 
That was a spurred heel which had rung on the pave- 
ment, and that was a hatted head which now passed under 
the arched porte-cochere of the hotel. 
Charlotte Brontii, Jane Eyre, xv. 
The bonneting of some unhappy wretch who has had 
the audacity to wear ... a high beaver hat . . . Woe 
be to the hatted one should he attempt to resent their 
actions. The Century, XXVI. 875. 
2. To place a hat upon the head of. 
Cardinals hatted at Kome. 
New York Semi-weekly Tribune, March 22, 1887. 
3. To secure, as a seat, by placing one's hat 
upon it, as is done in the British House of Com- 
mons. [Colloq.] 
At 2 o'clock all was quiet in and about the House. 
Twenty seats had, however, been hatted before noon to 
secure them for the debate. 
Philadelphia Times, April 10, 1886. 
hat 2 t, a. A Middle English form of hot*. 
hat 3 t, n. An obsolete form of hate 1 . 
hat* (hat), n. See linft. 
hatable, hateable (ha'ta-bl), a. [< hate? + 
-able.] Capable or worthy of being hated; 
odious. 
Really a most notable, questionable, hateable, loveable 
old Marquis. Carlyle, Mirabeau. 
hatamoto (ha'tii-mo'to), . [Jap., < hata, flag, 
+ moto, under.] A feudatory vassal of the 
Tokugawa shoguns of Japan. 
hatband (hat'band), w. 1. A band or ribbon 
placed about a hat just above the brim. A broad- 
er band of some black material, such as crape, is often 
worn as mourning. In Great Britain a broad band of 
"Were ich with hym, by Crist," quath ich, "ich wolde 
neuere fro hym, 
Thanh ich my by-lyue sholde begge a-boute at menne 
hacches." Piers Plowman (C), xvii. 335. 
With throwing thus my head, 
Dogs leap the hatch, and all are fled. 
Shak., Lear, Hi. 6. 
If by the dairy's hatch I chance to hie, 
I shall her goodly countenance espy. 
Gay, Shepherd's Week, Friday, 1. 55. 
Hatch. The lower half of a door. . . . Sometimes ap- 
plied also to a gate. The gate which formerly divided 
Whittlebury forest from the Brackley road was designated 
Brackley Hatch, or Syresham Hatch, from its contiguity 
to those places. 
A. IS. Baker, Northamptonshire Words and Phrases. 
2. A grate or frame of cross-bars laid over an 
opening in a ship's deck ; hence, any cover of 
an opening in a ship's deck. A hatch accidentally 
turned upside down, or dropped in the hold of the vessel, 
is superstitious])' regarded as an omen of bad luck. 
Whan the schipmen with the wolf were wel passed, 
The hert & the hinde than hoped wel to schape, 
& busked hem bothe sone a-bouc the hacches. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.X 1. 2770. 
He poureth pesen upon the hacches slidre. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 648. 
We hoysed out our boat, and took up some of them ; as 
also a small hatch, or scuttle rather, belonging to some 
bark. Dumpier, Voyages, an. 1688. 
3. An opening, generally rectangular, in a 
ship's deck, for taking in or discharging the 
cargo, or for a.ffording a passage into the inte- 
rior of the ship ; a hatchway. The fore-hatch is 
generally just forward of the foremast, the main-hatch 
forward of the mainmast, and the after-hatch between the 
main- and mizzenmasts. See cut under hatchway, 
The briny seas, which saw the ship infold thee, 
Would vault up to the hatches to behold thee. 
Drayton, De la Poole to Queen Mary. 
Hence 4. Any similar opening, as in the floor 
for some time thereafter. 
I became conscious of the servile Pumblechook in a 
black cloak and several yards of hat-band. . . . We were 
all going to "follow." Dickens, Great Expectations, xxxv. 
2. In her., a bearing representing a ribbon, or 
sometimes a sort of braid ending in tassels. 
Dick's hatband, a phrase used satirically in prover- 
bial comparisons, such as as queer, as fine, or a* tight 
as Dick's hatband. The allusion is to the authority (as- 
sumed to be typified by the royal crown) conferred upon 
Richard (Dick) Cromwell as Lord Protector of England, 
in succession to his father Oliver Cromwell, for which 
he was notoriously unfit. He held it from September 
' . fcatbandt; 
Hay hertely he had in hachcs on bight 
ITIIIIVII and Golograi, II. 9. 
7. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish. 
8. A bedstead. [Scotch.] 
Curst thirst of gold ! how thou causest care ! 
My bed of Doun I change for hatches bare ; 
Rather than rest, this stormy war I chose ; 
T 1 enlarge my fields, both land and life I lose. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Schisme. 
A rude wooden stool, and still ruder hatch or bedframe. 
Scott. 
9. A hollow trap to catch weasels and other 
His companion is ordinarily some stale fellow that has 
beene notorious for an ingle to gold hatbands, whom hee 
admires at first, afterwards scornes. 
Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, Young Gentleman of 
[the Universitie. 
hat-block (hat'blok), n. The block ormold on 
which a hat is formed. It consists of several 
pieces fastened together. 
ly shaped piece of felt from which a hat is to 
be formed. 
hat-box (hat'boks), n. 1. A box in which a 
hat is kept or carried, often of stout leather and 
approximately of the shape of the hat. 2. A 
small light trunk, nearly cubical in shape, con- 
taining a tray or compartment for a hat or 
bonnet. 
hat-brush (hat'brush), . A soft brush for 
brushing hats. 
hat-case (hat'kas), n. 
low deck ; off duty : said of a naval officer or sailor, often 
implying that he is under arrest or suspended from duty. 
To the king's ship, invisible as thou art : 
There shall thou find the mariners asleep 
Under the hatches. Shak., Tempest, v. L 
(6) Under close confinement ; in servitude. 
He assures us how this fatherhood continued its course 
till the captivity In Egypt, and then the poor fatherhood 
was under hatches. Locke, Government, i. 2. 
hatch 1 (hach), v. t. [< hatch 1 , n.] To close with 
or as with a hatch. 
If in our youths we could pick up some pretty estate, 
'twere not amiss to keep our door hatched. 
Shak., Pericles, iv. 3. 
Sleep begins with heavy wings 
To hatch mine eyes. 
Sir P. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 522). 
hatch 2 (haeh), . [< ME. hacchen (pret. hagte, 
haihte, pp. ihaht) (not in AS.) = MHG. G. hecken 
= Sw. hacka = Dan. hcekke, hatch, produce 
- , ,, ... Same as hat-box. 
hatch 1 (hach), . [= E. dial, and Sc. unassibi- r _,. 6 . , 66 , ^, 
lated hack, heck, a half-door, wicket, also a pairing and nesting ; in common language it is 
rack or frame (for various purposes: see7iacfc 2 , not applied to domestic fowls). Cf. hatch^, n. 
young from eggs by incubation (G. hecken com- 
prehends the laying of the eggs, and even the 
hatch 
The asserted derivation trornhatclt 1 ("to hatch 
birds is to produce them under a hatch or coop " 
Skeat) is improbable, because the notion is a 
more general one ; the earliest instances (ME. ) 
refer to the owl and other non-domestic birds, 
which do not hatch under a coop; moreover, 
hatch 1 does not mean in E. a coop or breeding- 
cage, and the Sw. Dan. G. nouns with this sense 
are prop, derivatives of the verb, though easily 
confused (in Sw. Dan.) with the other noun 
meaning ' rack,' = E. hatch 1 . Wedgwood's as- 
sertion that hatch'* is identical with hack 1 (cf. 
hatch 3 , ult. = hack 1 ), because "the young bird 
is supposed to peck its way ut of the shell" 
(G. hacken, hack, also peck or strike with the 
bill), is negatived by the difference in the ME. 
forms (pres. and pret.). The word is prob. an 
independent verb, of which early record is lost.] 
1. trans. 1. To cause to develop in and emerge 
from (an egg) by incubation or other natural 
process, or by artificial heat; cause the devel- 
oped young to emerge from (an egg). 
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and halcheth them not 
Jer. xvii. 11. 
That you should hatch gold in a furnace, sir, 
Aa they do eggs in Egypt 1 
B. Jonson, Alchemist, ii. 1. 
Insects which do not sit upon their eggs deposit them 
in those particular situations in which the young, when 
hatched, find their appropriate food. 
Paley, Nat. Theol., xvlil. 
2. To contrive or plot, especially secretly; 
form by meditation, and bring into being ; ori- 
ginate and produce : as, to hatch mischief ; to 
hatch heresy. 
The whole Senate of lewish, Saracenicall, and Christian 
Astrologers together hatching a lie. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 18. 
Thine are fancies hateh'd 
In silken-folded idleness. 
Tennyson, Princess, iv. 
Hatching apparatus, an artificial incubator for bring- 
ing forth chickens from eggs by the agency of heat. See 
incubator. To count one's chickens before they are 
hatched. See chickenl. 
II. intrans. 1. To be hatched, as the eggs of 
birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, etc.: as, the eggs 
hatch in two weeks, in the water, underground, 
etc. 2. To come forth from or out of the egg: 
as, the chicks hatch naked in ten days. 
Open your bee-hives, for now they hatch. 
Evelyn, Calendarium Hortense, April. 
hatch 2 (hach), n. [Cf. G. hecke (not in MHG.), 
a hatching, a hatch, brood, breed, also breed- 
ing- or hatching-time, breeding-cage, aviary, = 
Sw. hack, a coop, = Dan. hcek, hatching, breed- 
ing (cf. ha/kkebur, breeding-cage (see bou'er 1 ), 
hcekketid, hatching- or nesting-time) ; from the 
verb: see hatch'*, v.] 1. A brood; as many 
young birds as are produced at one time, or by 
one incubation. 2. The number of eggs in- 
cubated at one time; a clutch. 3. The act of 
hatching; also, that which is hatched, in either 
sense of that word. 
There's something in his soul 
O'er which his melancholy sits on brood ; 
And, I do doubt, the hatch, and the disclose, 
Will be some danger. .-/, / , Hamlet, iii. 1. 
hatch 3 (hach), v. t. [Early mod. E.; < OP. 
hacher, hack, shred, slice, hew, chop, cut in 
pieces, also hatch (a hilt), F. hacher, < MHG. 
G. hacken, cut: see hack 1 . Cf. hash 1 .] If. To 
chase ; engrave ; mark with cuts or lines. 
Who first shall wound, through others' arms, his blood ap- 
pearing fresh, 
Shall win this sword, silver'd and hatcht. Chapman. 
And such again, 
As venerable Nestor['s], hateh'd in silver, 
Should . . . knit all Greeks' ears 
To his experienc'd tongue. Shak., T. and C., i. 8. 
Why should not I 
Doat on my horse well trapt, my sword well hatcht f 
Fletcher, Bonduca, U. 
A rymer is a fellow whose face is hatcht all over with 
impudence, and should hee bee hang'd or pilloried 'tis 
armed for it. Sir T. Overbury, Characters. 
Thy hair is fine as gold, thy chin is hateh'd 
With silver. Shirley, Love in a Maze, U. 2. 
2. Specifically, in drawing, engraving, etc., to 
shade by means of lines ; especially, to shade 
with lines crossing one another. See hatching 
and cross-hatching. 
Those hatching strokes of the pencil. Dryden. 
Though very rich and varied in effect, the tapestry of the 
best period usually is woven with not more than twenty 
different tints of wool half tints and gradations being 
got by hatching one colour into another. 
Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 212. 
3. To lay in small and numerous bands upon a 
ground of different material : as, laces of silver 
hatched on a satin ground. 
