Word Meanings - INCUBATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which incubates, especially, an apparatus by means of which eggs are hatched by artificial heat.

Related words: (words related to INCUBATOR)

• HATCHURE
  See HACHURE
• HATCHETTINE; HATCHETTITE
  Mineral t
• HATCHET MAN
  1. A person hired to murder or physically attack another; a hit man.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• HATCHEL
  An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle. (more info) Dan. hegle, Sw. häkla, and prob. to E. hook. See Hook, and cf.
• HATCH
  1. To cross with lines in a peculiar manneHatching. Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched. Chapman. Those hatching strokes of the pencil. Dryden. 2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. His weapon hatched in blood. Beau. & Fl.
• ARTIFICIALITY
  The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• ARTIFICIALLY
  1. In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature. 2. Ingeniously; skillfully. The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought. Tillotson. 3. Craftily; artfully. Sharp dissembled so artificially. Bp. Burnet.
• HATCHWAY
  A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.
• ARTIFICIAL
  1. Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak. 2.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• ARTIFICIALNESS
  The quality of being artificial.
• HATCHERY
  A house for hatching fish, etc.
• HATCHER
  1. One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching apparatus; an incubator. 2. One who contrives or originates; a plotter. A great hatcher and breeder of business. Swift.
• HATCH-BOAT
  A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches; -- used mostly in the fisheries.
• HATCHET
  1. A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand. 2. Specifically, a tomahawk. Buried was the bloody hatchet. Longfellow. Hatchet face, a thin, sharp face, like the edge of a hatchet; hence: Hatchet-faced, sharp-visaged. Dryden. -- To
• ARTIFICIALIZE
  To render artificial.
• HATCHING
  A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching.
• APPARATUS
  A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus. (more info) 1. Things provided as means to some end. 2. Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or
• SCHATCHEN
  A person whose business is marriage brokage; a marriage broker, esp. among certain Jews.
• HALF-HATCHED
  Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs. Gay.
• THATCHING
  1. The act or art of covering buildings with thatch; so as to keep out rain, snow, etc. 2. The materials used for this purpose; thatch.
• THATCHER
  One who thatches.
• QUICKHATCH
  The wolverine.
• THATCH
  A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching. Thatch sparrow, the house sparrow. (more info) cover, D. dak a roof, dekken to cover, G. dach a roof, decken 8cover, Icel. Þak a roof, Sw. tak, Dan.