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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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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..

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

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

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

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

Monogoneutic :: Monogoneutic (a.) Having but one brood in a season.

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate..

Brood :: Brood (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.

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

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

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