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damped lining after the fame fliall have been ufed or 
worn, fuch perfon fliall forfeit twenty pounds. 
HA'TA HO'TUN, ,a town of Chinefe Tartary. Lat, ' 
42. 35. N. Ion. 142. 5. E. Ferro. 
HAT'ACH, [Heb. a ftriker.] A man’s name.- 
IIATAIHAN' KIA'MEN, a poft of Chinefe Tar- 
tary : tliirty-five miles fouth-weft of Tcitciear Hotun. 
H ATAMTAM', a town of Chinefe Tartary : th'irty- 
feven miles eaft of Kami Hotun. Lat. 42. 56. N. Ion. 
lit. 12. E. Ferro. 
H AT'BAND, /. A firing tied round the hat.—They 
had hats of blue velvet, with fine plumes of divers co- 
jurs, fet round like hatbands Bacon. 
Room for the noble gladiator ! fee, 
His coat and hatband fhew his quality. Drydcn. 
BAT'BOROUGH, a town of the American States, 
in Montgomery county, Pennfylvania, fituated on the 
riorth-eaft fide of Pannepack Creek, which runs into 
Delaware river about five miles above Frankfort. 
IIAT'BOX,/ A flight box to put a hat in. 
HAT'CASE, /. A flight box for a hat; an oiled 
cloth to put over the hat. 
To HATCH, v. a. \_hecken, Germ, as Skinner thinks, 
from heg'ien, eghen ; oeg, egg, Sax.] To produce young 
from eggs by the warmth of incubation: 
He kindly fpreads his fpacious wing. 
And hatches plenty for th* enfuing fpring. Denham . 
To quicken/re egg by incubation.—When they have 
laid fuch a number of eggs as they can conveniently 
cover and hatch, they give over and begin to fit. Ray. — 
To form by meditation ; to contrive.—He was a man 
harmlefs and faithful, and one who never hatched any 
hopes prejudicial to the king. Hayward. —[From hacher, 
Fr. to cut.] To fliade by lines in drawing or graving : 
Who firfl fhall wound, through others arms, his blood 
appearing frefh, 
Shall win this fword, filver’d and hatcht. Chapman. 
To HATCH, v. n. To be in a flate of growing quick. 
—He obfcrved circumftances in eggs, wliilft they were 
hatching , which varied. Boyle. —To be in a flate of ad¬ 
vance towards effeft. 
HATCH, f. A brood excluded from the egg. The 
aft of exclufion from the egg. Difclofure ; difcovery : 
Something’s in his foul, 
O’er which his melancholy fits on brood: 
And, 1 do doubt, the hatch and the difclofe 
Will be home danger. Shakefpeare. 
[Jjaeca, Sax. ke'che, Dut. a bolt.] A half-door; a door 
with an opening over it : perhaps from hacker t to cut, 
as a hatch is part of a door cut in two: 
Something about, a little from the right. 
In at the window, or elfe o’er the hatch. Shakefpeare. 
[In the plural.] The doors or openings by which they 
defcend from one deck or floor of a fhip to another : 
So feas, impell’d by winds with added pow’r, 
Afl’auit the fides, and o’er the hatches tow’r. Dryden. 
The fluices or openings of floodgates. In Cornwall 
they have hatches or dams conftrufted of clay and earth, 
to prevent the water ilfuing from the tin-wafhes from 
running into the frefh rivers. And the tenants of feve- 
ral manors there, are bound to do certain days works 
ad le hatches, or hacches, by flat. 27 Hen. VIII. c. 23. And 
from a hatch, gate, or door, fome houfes fituate near a 
common gate, are called hatches. 
To be under Hatches. To be in a flate of ignominy, 
poverty, or deprefiion.—He aifures us how this father¬ 
hood continued its courfe, till the captivity in Egypt, 
and then the poor fatherhood was under hatches. Locke. 
To HAT'CHEL, v. a. [hachelen , Germ.] To beat flax 
fo as to fep.arate the fibrous from the brittle part. 
HAT'CHEL,/. \_kachel, Gp rm.] The inflrumcnt with 
which flax is. beaten. 
HAT'C HELLER, f. A beater of flax. 
HATCH'ELLING,/. The aft of beating flax with, 
a hatcheh 
HAT'CHET, / \_hache, hatchette, Fr. afeia, Lat.] A 
fmail axe.—The hatchet is to hew the irregularities of 
fluff. Moxon. 
HAT'CHET-FACE,/. An ugly face; fuch as might 
be hewn out of a block by a hatchet: 
An ape his own dear image will embrace : 
An ugly beau adjpre's a; hatchet-face. Dryden. 
HAT'CHET-VETCH,/ in botany. See Coroni lla. * 
HAT'CHING, /. The aft of producing young front 
eggs, whether by the incubation of the parent bird, or 
by artificial means. In fome countries, the produdfion 
of chickens by an artificial procefs, conftitutes an extern, 
five and lucrative trade; for the methods of which, fee 
the article Egg, voi.vi. p. 285. 
HATCH'MENT,/. [corrupted from achievement. See 
Achievement.] Armorial efcutcheon placed over a 
door at a funeral.—See the article Heraldry, in this 
volume. 
His means of death, his obfeure funeral; 
No trophy, fword, nor hatchment, o’er his bones, 
No noble rites nor formal ollentation, 
Cry to be heard. Shakefpeare. 
HATCHWAY,/ The way over or through the 
hatches. 
HAT'CHY, a navigable river of the American States, 
in the flate of Teneflee, rpns weflerly into the Mifliftippi, 
about nineteen miles north of Wolf river; and feven 
miles from its mouth is about eighty yards wide. 
To HATE, v.a. [harian, Sax.] Todetefl; to abhor; 
to abominate; to regard with the paflion contrary to 
love: 
You are, I think, affur’d I love you not. 
—Your majefry hath no juft caufe to hate me. 
Do all men kill the thing they do not love ? 
—Hates any man the thing he would not kill ? 
Every offence is not a hate a t firfl. Shakefpeare. 
HATE,/ [ate, Sax.] Malignity; deteftation ; the 
contrary to love : 
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear 
Your favours nor your hate. Shakefpeare. 
HA'TEFUL, adj. That which caufes abhorrence; 
odious; abominable ; deteftable.—There is no vice more 
hateful to God and man than ingratitude. Peacham. 
But Umbriel, hateful gnome ! forbears not fo ; 
He breaks the phial whence the forrows flow. Pope. 
That which feels abhorrence ; abhorrent; detefting; 
malignant; malevolent: 
Palamon, compell’d 
No more to try the fortune of the field; 
And, worfe than,death, to view with hateful eyes 
His rival’s conqueft. Dryden. 
HA'TEFULLY, adv. Odioufly; abominably. Ma¬ 
lignantly ; malicioufty.—They fliall deal with thee hate¬ 
fully, take away all thy labour, and leave thee naked 
and bare. Ezeh. xxiii. 29. 
HA'TEFULNESS,/ Odioufnefs. 
HA'TER,/ One that hates; an abhorrer; a detefter. 
—An enemy to God, and a hater of all good. Brown. 
HAT'FIELD, or Bishop’s Hatfield, a fmail town 
in Hertfordfhire, dillant feven miles from Hertford, and 
twenty from London. It takes its latter name from hav¬ 
ing once belonged to the bithops of Ely, who had a pa¬ 
lace here, which, with the manor, became alienated to 
the crown in the reign of queen Elizabeth, who occa- 
fionally refided here, and was hence condufted to be 
crowned at London. James I. exchanged this royal 
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