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1609 T. Higgons First Motiue 148 Th. More answered vnto Pomeranus (extenuating the haynous crimes of our brethren, euen in the hatching-time of our ghospell).

1651 R. Child Large Let. in S. Hartlib Legacie 72 When she hath laid her egs..you may gently take them off with a knife, and keepe them..till hatching-time come.

?a1656 J. Poole Eng. Parnassus (1657) 288 Court. The place of glorious troubles, empty fallacies, Fals delights, the shine of kings, envies hatching place.

1758 Universal Mag. Jan. 7/1 The pricked paper lying uppermost may be taken away, and placed in the hatching-box, as before, for fresh worms to come on it.

1847 R. Fortune Three Years' Wanderings China v. 79 The first question put to a sight-seer..is, whether he has seen the hatching process.

1892 W. Pike Barren Ground N. Canada iv. 58 Two sorts of gadfly..use these animals as a hatching-ground for their eggs.

1947 Pop Mech. Oct. 173/2 (caption) Sterilamps at top of hatching box..kill airborne bacteria.

1978 Ornis Scandinavica 9 173/1 Hatching asynchrony, even when moderate, gives initial advantages to the chicks which are hatched earlier.

1986 T. Mo Insular Possession xxxix. 489 Those buildings are the hatching-ground, the spawning-place of the mandarins who have been confounding us with their knavish tricks?

2013 D. J. Fairbairn Odd Couples ii. 16 Attentive males even carry newly hatched tadpoles on their backs..from small hatching pools to freshwater streams.