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Brood :: Brood (v. t.) The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens..

Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate..

Brood :: Brood (a.) Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow..

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..

Brood :: Brood (v. t.) That which is bred or produced; breed; species.

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 sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens..

Abrood :: Abrood (adv.) In the act of brooding.

Monogoneutic :: Monogoneutic (a.) Having but one brood in a season.

Hatch :: Hatch (n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.

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..

Sitting :: Sitting (n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls..

Nye :: Nye (n.) A brood or flock of pheasants.

Clucking :: Clucking (n.) The noise or call of a brooding hen.

Eye :: Eye (n.) A brood; as, an eye of pheasants..

Covey :: Covey (v. i.) To brood; to incubate.

Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To brood or sit on; to incubate.

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..

Brooding :: Brooding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Broo.

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