Definition of brood

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

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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..
Eelfare :: Eelfare (n.) A brood of eels.
Brooded :: Brooded (imp. & p. p.) of Broo.
Breed :: Breed (n.) A number produced at once; a brood.
Cove :: Cove (v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs..
Polygoneutic :: Polygoneutic (a.) Having two or more broods in a season.
Nye :: Nye (n.) A brood or flock of pheasants.
Hatch :: Hatch (n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To brood or sit on; to incubate.
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..
Chaw :: Chaw (v. t.) To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.
Cluck :: Cluck (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen..
Morose :: Morose (a.) Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.
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..
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.) That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens..
Monogoneutic :: Monogoneutic (a.) Having but one brood in a season.
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