the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching apparatus; an incubator.
n. One who contrives or originates; a plotter.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. One who hatches; a contriver; a plotter.
n. A bird that hatches; also, any apparatus for hatching eggs, as a hatching-box or -trough; an incubator.
Word Usage
"Rather than someone simply taking refuge in the past because he's unable to face the present, Wilson is more in the tradition of an artist such as Plush: a hatcher of big ideas, and dreamer of big dreams."