Definition of brood

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

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Abrood :: Abrood (adv.) In the act of brooding.
Cluck :: Cluck (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen..
Polygoneutic :: Polygoneutic (a.) Having two or more broods in a season.
Brooded :: Brooded (imp. & p. p.) of Broo.
Clucking :: Clucking (n.) The noise or call of a brooding hen.
Brood :: Brood (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens..
Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate..
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..
Morose :: Morose (a.) Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.
Broody :: Broody (a.) Inclined to brood.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens..
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.) 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 (a.) Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow..
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..
Breed :: Breed (n.) A number produced at once; a brood.
Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To brood or sit on; to incubate.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To cherish with care.
Hatch :: Hatch (n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
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