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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..

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

Brood :: Brood (v. t.) The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens..

Breed :: Breed (n.) A number produced at once; a 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..

Nide :: Nide (n.) A nestful; a brood; as, a nide of pheasants..

Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.

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..

Polygoneutic :: Polygoneutic (a.) Having two or more broods in a season.

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..

Covey :: Covey (v. i.) To brood; to incubate.

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..

Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To brood or sit on; to incubate.

Incubation :: Incubation (n.) A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process..

Cove :: Cove (v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs..

Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens..

Brooded :: Brooded (imp. & p. p.) of Broo.

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..

Brooding :: Brooding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Broo.

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

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