hatching

• brooding
• incubating
• laying
• setting
• sitting
• spawning

• verb
  1. To close with a hatch or hatches.
  2. (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
  3. (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
  4. To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
  5. To devise.
  6. To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
  7. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
• noun
  1. A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
  2. A group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time.
  3. The act of an egg hatching, eclosion.

• The scientists observed the hatching of the endangered turtle eggs.
• She spent hours hatching a plan to surprise her best friend.
• The chick began hatching just before sunrise.
• They were accused of hatching a plot to overthrow the council.
• The artwork included fine hatching lines to create shading effects.

fabricating

machinating

faking

hammering out

wangling

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