Definition of brood

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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..

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Cluck :: Cluck (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen..
Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To brood or sit on; to incubate.
Brooding :: Brooding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Broo.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens..
Broody :: Broody (a.) Inclined to brood.
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..
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.
Brooded :: Brooded (imp. & p. p.) of Broo.
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..
Covey :: Covey (v. i.) To brood; to incubate.
Eelfare :: Eelfare (n.) A brood of eels.
Morose :: Morose (a.) Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.
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. 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..
Team :: Team (n.) A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter..
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..
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..
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Polygoneutic :: Polygoneutic (a.) Having two or more broods in a season.
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