Definition of brood

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Brood (v. t.) To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens..

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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..
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens..
Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To brood or sit on; to incubate.
Clucking :: Clucking (n.) The noise or call of a brooding hen.
Nye :: Nye (n.) A brood or flock of pheasants.
Brood :: Brood (v. i.) To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding..
Eye :: Eye (n.) A brood; as, an eye of pheasants..
Hatch :: Hatch (n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
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..
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..
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..
Eelfare :: Eelfare (n.) A brood of eels.
Cluck :: Cluck (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen..
Monogoneutic :: Monogoneutic (a.) Having but one brood in a season.
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.) To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens..
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.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.
Polygoneutic :: Polygoneutic (a.) Having two or more broods in a season.
Sitting :: Sitting (n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls..
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