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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

Rood :: Rood (n.) A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a perch; a pole.

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

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..

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..

Winter-ground :: Winter-ground (v. t.) To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant..

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

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

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..

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

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

Clucking :: Clucking (n.) The noise or call of a brooding hen.

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

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

Team :: Team (n.) A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter..

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

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..

Morose :: Morose (a.) Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.

Roody :: Roody (a.) Rank in growth.

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

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