Definition of brood

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

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Team :: Team (n.) A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter..
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Chaw :: Chaw (v. t.) To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.
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..
Cove :: Cove (v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs..
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To cherish with care.
Brood :: Brood (v. i.) To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes..
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate..
Nye :: Nye (n.) A brood or flock of pheasants.
Brood :: Brood (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
Morose :: Morose (a.) Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.
Covey :: Covey (n.) A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges..
Brooded :: Brooded (imp. & p. p.) of Broo.
Brood :: Brood (a.) Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow..
Cluck :: Cluck (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen..
Clucking :: Clucking (n.) The noise or call of a brooding hen.
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..
Monogoneutic :: Monogoneutic (a.) Having but one brood in a season.
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