Definition of brood

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

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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..
Broody :: Broody (a.) Inclined to brood.
Eye :: Eye (n.) A brood; as, an eye of pheasants..
Polygoneutic :: Polygoneutic (a.) Having two or more broods in a season.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens..
Cove :: Cove (v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs..
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..
Monogoneutic :: Monogoneutic (a.) Having but one brood in a season.
Cluck :: Cluck (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen..
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Covey :: Covey (v. i.) To brood; to incubate.
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. 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..
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..
Chaw :: Chaw (v. t.) To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.
Brooding :: Brooding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Broo.
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..
Nide :: Nide (n.) A nestful; a brood; as, a nide of pheasants..
Hatch :: Hatch (n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
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