Definition of brood

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

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Polygoneutic :: Polygoneutic (a.) Having two or more broods in a season.
Covey :: Covey (v. i.) To brood; to incubate.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.
Brood :: Brood (a.) Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow..
Eelfare :: Eelfare (n.) A brood of eels.
Sitting :: Sitting (n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls..
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..
Breed :: Breed (n.) A number produced at once; a brood.
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..
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..
Cluck :: Cluck (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen..
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 (v. t.) To cherish with care.
Clucking :: Clucking (n.) The noise or call of a brooding hen.
Broody :: Broody (a.) Inclined to 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..
Morose :: Morose (a.) Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.
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.
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