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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..

Shroud :: Shroud (v. t.) To lop. See Shrood.

Rood :: Rood (n.) A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.

Dextrin :: Dextrin (n.) A translucent, gummy, amorphous substance, nearly tasteless and odorless, used as a substitute for gum, for sizing, etc., and obtained from starch by the action of heat, acids, or diastase. It is of somewhat variable composition, containing several carbohydrates which change easily to their respective varieties of sugar. It is so named from its rotating the plane of polarization to the right; -- called also British gum, Alsace gum, gommelin, leiocome, etc. See Achroodextrin, and Ery

Shrowd :: Shrowd (v. t.) See Shrood.

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.) The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens..

Eye :: Eye (n.) A brood; as, an eye of pheasants..

Sitting :: Sitting (n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls..

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

Cluck :: Cluck (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen..

Croodle :: Croodle (v. i.) To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw..

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..

Arpen :: Arpen (n.) Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English..

Abrood :: Abrood (adv.) In the act of brooding.

Sinistrin :: Sinistrin (n.) A mucilaginous carbohydrate, resembling achroodextrin, extracted from squill as a colorless amorphous substance; -- so called because it is levorotatory..

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..

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

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..

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