(UN-1 8 + HATCH v.1)
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 298. Whiles the chick is unhatched and within the egge.
1794. Morse, Amer. Geog., 169. The young cuckow immediately sets about clearing the nest of the young sparrows, and the remaining unhatched eggs.
1854. Badham, Halieut., 186. Many [tunny-fish] drop their unhatched posterity about, wherever they may happen to reside.
1872. Darwin, Orig. Spec. (ed. 6), iv. 68. The hard tip to the beak of unhatched birds, used for breaking the egg.
fig. 1602. Shaks., Ham., I. iii. 65. But doe not dull thy palme, with entertainment of each vnhatcht, vnfledgd Comrade.
1635. Pagitt, Christianog., 223. Papall Indulgences were then unhatched.
a. 1639. T. Carew, Poems, Wks. (1824), 85. Though niggard Time left much unhatchd by deeds.