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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



... in Kor, but in whatever spot, In fields, or towns, or by the insatiate sea, Hearts brood o'er buried Loves and unforgot, Or wreck themselves on some Divine decree, Or would o'er-leap the limits of our lot, There in the Tombs and ...
— HE • Andrew Lang
... waves of Hel-ya Water Fret around a rugged isle, Where the bones of Yarl Magnus Lie below a lichened pile, There the raven found a refuge, There he reared his savage brood; And the young lambs from the scattald Were ...
— Viking Boys • Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby
... what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure? All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee. As the long train Of ages glide away, the ...
— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... into the fjord. It was rainy weather, and a feeling of melancholy seemed to brood over the familiar landscape with ...
— Farthest North - Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 • Fridtjof Nansen
... make time, or lose it. They keep it. They run to schedule, one behind the other, in processions. They have nothing to overcome. They do not fail, and they cannot triumph. They are predestined engines, and the sea is but their track. Yet it had been otherwise. And the old man would brood into the greater past, his voice would grow quiet, and he would gently emphasize his argument by letting one hand, from a fixed wrist, rise, and fall sadly on the table, in a gesture of solemn finality. He was in that act, early one evening, while ...
— London River • H. M. Tomlinson


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