Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apparatus for hatching eggs by artificial heat; an incubator.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.
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- noun dated A
contrivance forhatching eggs byartificial heat .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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Many a thought is a Leda egg, imprisoning twin life-principles, which,, incubated in the eccaleobion brain of an author-borrower, have blessed the world; but without such a foster-parent, in some neglected nest staled and addled, had never burst the shell.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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The name given to an egg-hatching machine invented in 1839 by a W. Bucknell, supposedly the sentence "I evoke life" written as one Greek word. (Later used in the figurative sense for things analogous to an egg-hatching machine.)
July 9, 2008