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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Breed :: Breed (n.) A number produced at once; a brood.
Clucking :: Clucking (n.) The noise or call of a brooding hen.
Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To brood or sit on; to incubate.
Eelfare :: Eelfare (n.) A brood of eels.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Polygoneutic :: Polygoneutic (a.) Having two or more broods in a season.
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..
Cove :: Cove (v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs..
Monogoneutic :: Monogoneutic (a.) Having but one brood in a season.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
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..
Broody :: Broody (a.) Inclined to 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..
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..
Brooded :: Brooded (imp. & p. p.) of Broo.
Cluck :: Cluck (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen..
Brooding :: Brooding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Broo.
Hatch :: Hatch (n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate..
Nide :: Nide (n.) A nestful; a brood; as, a nide of pheasants..
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