Definition of brood

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Brood (a.) Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow..

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Brooded :: Brooded (imp. & p. p.) of Broo.
Monogoneutic :: Monogoneutic (a.) Having but one brood in a season.
Cluck :: Cluck (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen..
Abrood :: Abrood (adv.) In the act of brooding.
Polygoneutic :: Polygoneutic (a.) Having two or more broods in a season.
Morose :: Morose (a.) Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens..
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..
Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate..
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..
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..
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
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..
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
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..
Nye :: Nye (n.) A brood or flock of pheasants.
Chaw :: Chaw (v. t.) To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.
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..
Brood :: Brood (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
Sitting :: Sitting (n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls..
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