Definition of brood

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Brood (v. t.) To cherish with care.

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Clucking :: Clucking (n.) The noise or call of a brooding hen.
Abrood :: Abrood (adv.) In the act of brooding.
Polygoneutic :: Polygoneutic (a.) Having two or more broods 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..
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens..
Monogoneutic :: Monogoneutic (a.) Having but one brood in a season.
Breed :: Breed (n.) A number produced at once; a brood.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.
Eelfare :: Eelfare (n.) A brood of eels.
Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; 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..
Broody :: Broody (a.) Inclined to brood.
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..
Hatch :: Hatch (n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
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..
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
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 (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To brood or sit on; to incubate.
Covey :: Covey (v. i.) To brood; to incubate.
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