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BROOD, v.i.

1. To sit on and cover, as a fowl on her eggs for the purpose of warming them and hatching chickens, or as a hen over her chickens, to warm and protect them.

2. To sit on; to spread over, as with wings; as, to sit brooding over the vast abyss.

3. To remain a long time in anxiety or solicitous thought; to have the mind uninterruptedly dwell a long time on a subject; as, the miser broods over his gold.

4. To mature any thing with care.

BROOD, v.t. To sit over, cover and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.

1. To cherish.

You'll brood your sorrows on a throne.

BROOD, n. Offspring; progeny; formerly used of human beings in elegant works, and we have brother, from this word; but it is now more generally used in contempt.

1. A hatch; the young birds hatched at once; as a brood of chickens or of ducks.

2. That which is bred; species generated; that which is produced.

Lybia's broods of poison.

3. The act of covering the eggs, or of brooding. [Unusual.]



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BROOD, v.i.

1. To sit on and cover, as a fowl on her eggs for the purpose of warming them and hatching chickens, or as a hen over her chickens, to warm and protect them.

2. To sit on; to spread over, as with wings; as, to sit brooding over the vast abyss.

3. To remain a long time in anxiety or solicitous thought; to have the mind uninterruptedly dwell a long time on a subject; as, the miser broods over his gold.

4. To mature any thing with care.

BROOD, v.t. To sit over, cover and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.

1. To cherish.

You'll brood your sorrows on a throne.

BROOD, n. Offspring; progeny; formerly used of human beings in elegant works, and we have brother, from this word; but it is now more generally used in contempt.

1. A hatch; the young birds hatched at once; as a brood of chickens or of ducks.

2. That which is bred; species generated; that which is produced.

Lybia's broods of poison.

3. The act of covering the eggs, or of brooding. [Unusual.]

BROOD, n. [Sax. brod.]

  1. Offspring; progeny; formerly used of human beings in elegant works, and we have brother, from this word; but it is now more generally used in contempt.
  2. A hatch; the young birds hatched at once; as, a brood of chickens or of ducks.
  3. That which is bred; species generated; that which is produced. Libya's broods of poison. – Addison.
  4. The act of covering the eggs, or of brooding. [Unusual.] – Shak.

BROOD, v.i. [Sax. brod, a brood; and brædan, bredan, to dilate or extend, to warm, to divulge, to spread; D. broeden, to brood; Ger. brüten, to brood; brut, brood; W. brwd, warm; brydiaw, to warm. The sense is, to warm, or to cover, to spread over.]

  1. To sit on and cover, as a fowl on her eggs for the purpose of warming them and hatching chickens, or as a hen over her chickens, to warm and protect them.
  2. To sit on; to spread over, as with wings; as, to sit brooding over the vast abyss. – Milton.
  3. To remain a long time in anxiety or solicitous thought; to have the mind uninterruptedly dwell a long time on a subject; as, the miser broods over his gold. – Dryden.
  4. To mature any thing with care. – Bacon.

BROOD, v.t.

  1. To sit over, cover and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
  2. To cherish. You'll brood your sorrows on a throne. – Dryden.

Brood
  1. The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.

    As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
    Luke xiii. 34.

    A hen followed by a brood of ducks.
    Spectator.

  2. Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
  3. 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.

    Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave.
    Milton.

  4. To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
  5. 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.

    The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood.
    Wordsworth.

  6. Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
  7. 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.

    Brooding on unprofitable gold.
    Dryden.

    Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit.
    Hawthorne.

    When with downcast eyes we muse and brood.
    Tennyson.

  8. To cherish with care.

    [R.]
  9. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.

    Flocks of the airy brood,
    (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans).
    Chapman.

  10. To think anxiously or moodily upon.

    You'll sit and brood your sorrows on a throne.
    Dryden.

  11. Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

    To sit on brood, to ponder. [Poetic] Shak.

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Brood

BROOD, verb intransitive

1. To sit on and cover, as a fowl on her eggs for the purpose of warming them and hatching chickens, or as a hen over her chickens, to warm and protect them.

2. To sit on; to spread over, as with wings; as, to sit brooding over the vast abyss.

3. To remain a long time in anxiety or solicitous thought; to have the mind uninterruptedly dwell a long time on a subject; as, the miser broods over his gold.

4. To mature any thing with care.

BROOD, verb transitive To sit over, cover and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.

1. To cherish.

You'll brood your sorrows on a throne.

BROOD, noun Offspring; progeny; formerly used of human beings in elegant works, and we have brother, from this word; but it is now more generally used in contempt.

1. A hatch; the young birds hatched at once; as a brood of chickens or of ducks.

2. That which is bred; species generated; that which is produced.

Lybia's broods of poison.

3. The act of covering the eggs, or of brooding. [Unusual.]

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