Definition of brood

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

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Brood :: Brood (a.) Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow..
Eye :: Eye (n.) A brood; as, an eye of pheasants..
Sitting :: Sitting (n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls..
Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To brood or sit on; to incubate.
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.
Breed :: Breed (n.) A number produced at once; a brood.
Eelfare :: Eelfare (n.) A brood of eels.
Monogoneutic :: Monogoneutic (a.) Having but one brood in a season.
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..
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..
Cluck :: Cluck (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen..
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. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
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..
Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate..
Brooded :: Brooded (imp. & p. p.) of Broo.
Team :: Team (n.) A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter..
Abrood :: Abrood (adv.) In the act of brooding.
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..
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