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Brood   /brud/   Listen
noun
Brood  n.  
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." "A hen followed by a brood of ducks."
2.
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."
3.
That which is bred or produced; breed; species. "Flocks of the airy brood, (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans)."
4.
(Mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
To sit on brood, to ponder. (Poetic)


verb
Brood  v. t.  
1.
To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
2.
To cherish with care. (R.)
3.
To think anxiously or moodily upon. "You'll sit and brood your sorrows on a throne."


Brood  v. i.  (past & past part. brooded; pres. part. brooding)  
1.
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."
2.
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." "Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit." "When with downcast eyes we muse and brood."


adjective
Brood  adj.  
1.
Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
2.
Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.





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"Brood" Quotes from Famous Books



... pride?—my wounded honor?—my outraged love? No, no, I tell you, it is not such a paltry vengeance that will satisfy me! Would to Heaven I had trusted only my own arm from the first! Would to Heaven that, instead of having anything to say to the cursed brood of the law, I had taken the viper by the throat, and brought him to my own terms, ...
— In the Days of My Youth • Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards
... those parts in the perfect male, the spurs appear but remain short and blunt, and the hackle feathers of the neck and saddle instead of being long and narrow are short and broadly webbed. The capon will take to a clutch of chickens, attend them in their search for food, and brood them under his wings ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham
... bright eyes to give me pause. I was afraid of Mlle. de Montluc, but more afraid of M. de Mayenne's cousin. What mocking devil had driven Etienne de Mar, out of a whole France full of lovely women, to fix his unturnable desire on this Ligueuse of Mayenne's own brood? Had his father's friends no daughters, that he must seek a mistress from the black duke's household? Were there no families of clean hands and honest speech, that he must ally himself with the treacherous blood ...
— Helmet of Navarre • Bertha Runkle
... through lack of food, And fever germs on vitals preyed; Yet they o'er trouble did not brood, By night or day of cheerful mood; This burden on them weighed— To keep the flag afloat—in brief, Till Buller came ...
— Gleams of Sunshine - Optimistic Poems • Joseph Horatio Chant
... accustomed, whenever he could find time, and often indeed when he could not, to follow the fox hounds, and hunt with his landlord, the Squire himself. Among his other bargains, he had lately bought one of the Squire's brood mares, Bay Meg, that had been sold because she had twice cast her foal. On the eve of my ninth returning birth-day, being in a gay humour (he was seldom sad) he said to me, 'I shall go out to-morrow ...
— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft


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