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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Brood :: Brood (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.
Broody :: Broody (a.) Inclined to brood.
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..
Clucking :: Clucking (n.) The noise or call of a brooding hen.
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..
Team :: Team (n.) A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter..
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..
Chaw :: Chaw (v. t.) To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.
Polygoneutic :: Polygoneutic (a.) Having two or more broods in a season.
Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate..
Brooding :: Brooding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Broo.
Morose :: Morose (a.) Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.
Covey :: Covey (v. i.) To brood; to incubate.
Nye :: Nye (n.) A brood or flock of pheasants.
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..
Eye :: Eye (n.) A brood; as, an eye of pheasants..
Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To brood or sit on; to incubate.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens..
Breed :: Breed (n.) A number produced at once; a brood.
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