Definition of brood

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

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Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
Clucking :: Clucking (n.) The noise or call of a brooding hen.
Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To brood or sit on; to incubate.
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..
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..
Eye :: Eye (n.) A brood; as, an eye of pheasants..
Nide :: Nide (n.) A nestful; a brood; as, a nide of pheasants..
Cluck :: Cluck (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen..
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 birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens..
Morose :: Morose (a.) Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.
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.
Cove :: Cove (v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs..
Broody :: Broody (a.) Inclined to brood.
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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