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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..

Covey :: Covey (n.) A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges..

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..

Breed :: Breed (n.) A number produced at once; a brood.

Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.

Nide :: Nide (n.) A nestful; a brood; as, a nide of pheasants..

Monogoneutic :: Monogoneutic (a.) Having but one brood in a season.

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 (v. t.) The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children..

Brood :: Brood (v. t.) That which is bred or produced; breed; species.

Hatch :: Hatch (n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.

Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate..

Broody :: Broody (a.) Inclined to brood.

Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To cherish with care.

Cove :: Cove (v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs..

Brooding :: Brooding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Broo.

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..

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

Chaw :: Chaw (v. t.) To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.

Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens..

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