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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..

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..

Clucking :: Clucking (n.) The noise or call of a brooding hen.

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.

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..

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. 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..

Brood :: Brood (a.) Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow..

Team :: Team (n.) A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter..

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..

Polygoneutic :: Polygoneutic (a.) Having two or more broods in a season.

Chaw :: Chaw (v. t.) To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.

Broody :: Broody (a.) Inclined to 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..

Eye :: Eye (n.) A brood; as, an eye of pheasants..

Cove :: Cove (v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs..

Brooded :: Brooded (imp. & p. p.) of Broo.

Morose :: Morose (a.) Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.

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