Definition of brood

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Brood (v. t.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.

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Covey :: Covey (v. i.) To brood; to incubate.
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..
Hatch :: Hatch (n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
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 (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To cherish with care.
Broody :: Broody (a.) Inclined to brood.
Brooded :: Brooded (imp. & p. p.) of Broo.
Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To brood or sit on; to incubate.
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..
Clucking :: Clucking (n.) The noise or call of a brooding hen.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
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..
Sitting :: Sitting (n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls..
Nide :: Nide (n.) A nestful; a brood; as, a nide of pheasants..
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..
Breed :: Breed (n.) A number produced at once; a brood.
Cove :: Cove (v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs..
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Abrood :: Abrood (adv.) In the act of brooding.
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