Word Meanings - INCUBATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INCUBATE)

• Hatch
• Prepare
• concoct
• devise
• scheme
• brew
• plot
• contrive
• incubate

Related words: (words related to INCUBATE)

• HATCHURE
  See HACHURE
• CONCOCTER
  One who concocts.
• HATCHETTINE; HATCHETTITE
  Mineral t
• HATCHET MAN
  1. A person hired to murder or physically attack another; a hit man.
• 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.
• CONTRIVER
  One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.
• 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.
• CONTRIVE
  To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan. What more likely to contrive this admirable frame of the universe than infinite wisdom. Tillotson. neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life.
• DEVISER
  One who devises.
• PREPARER
  One who, or that which, prepares, fits, or makes ready. Wood.
• 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.
• DEVISE
  To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels. Syn. -- To bequeath; invent; discover; contrive; excogitate; imagine; plan; scheme. See Bequeath. (more info) chat, fr. L. divisus divided, distributed, p. p. of dividere. See
• 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
• DEVISEE
  One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will.
• CONCOCTION
  Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and return to a normal condition. 5. The act of perfecting or maturing. Bacon. (more info) 1. A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion. 2. The act of concocting or preparing by
• INCUBATE
  To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.
• CONTRIVEMENT
  Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan. Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric. Glanvill. Active to meet their contrivements. Sir G. Buck.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• 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.
• PRECONTRIVE
  To contrive or plan beforehand.
• DISPREPARE
  To render unprepared. Hobbes.
• SELF-DEVISED
  Devised by one's self.
• THATCHER
  One who thatches.
• INCONCOCTED
  Imperfectly digested, matured, or ripened. Bacon.
• QUICKHATCH
  The wolverine.