Definition of brood

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

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Cluck :: Cluck (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the 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..
Brooding :: Brooding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Broo.
Brooded :: Brooded (imp. & p. p.) of Broo.
Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate..
Brood :: Brood (a.) Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow..
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..
Morose :: Morose (a.) Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.
Chaw :: Chaw (v. t.) To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens..
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Team :: Team (n.) A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter..
Broody :: Broody (a.) Inclined to brood.
Hatch :: Hatch (n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
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..
Clucking :: Clucking (n.) The noise or call of a brooding hen.
Nide :: Nide (n.) A nestful; a brood; as, a nide of pheasants..
Nye :: Nye (n.) A brood or flock of pheasants.
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 (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..
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