Definition of brood

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Brood (v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

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Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate..
Abrood :: Abrood (adv.) In the act of brooding.
Aerie :: Aerie (n.) The nest of a bird of prey, as of an eagle or hawk; also a brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest..
Brood :: Brood (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
Melancholia :: Melancholia (n.) A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas..
Breed :: Breed (n.) A number produced at once; a brood.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens..
Nye :: Nye (n.) A brood or flock of pheasants.
Cove :: Cove (v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs..
Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To brood or sit on; to incubate.
Brooded :: Brooded (imp. & p. p.) of Broo.
Polygoneutic :: Polygoneutic (a.) Having two or more broods in a season.
Incubate :: Incubate (v. i. & t.) To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching..
Eelfare :: Eelfare (n.) A brood of eels.
Brood :: Brood (v. i.) To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes..
Hatch :: Hatch (n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
Team :: Team (n.) A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter..
Monogoneutic :: Monogoneutic (a.) Having but one brood in a season.
Brood :: Brood (v. i.) To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding..
Subjective :: Subjective (a.) Especially, pertaining to, or derived from, one's own consciousness, in distinction from external observation; ralating to the mind, or intellectual world, in distinction from the outward or material excessively occupied with, or brooding over, one's own internal states..
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