Brood

Definition:

  • (v. t.) The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
  • (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.
  • (v. t.) That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
  • (v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
  • (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
  • (a.) Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (v. t.) To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
  • (v. t.) To cherish with care.
  • (v. t.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.

Compare brood with other words:

brond vs. brood

broid vs. brood

brood vs. broody

brood vs. broom

brood vs. brook

broad vs. brood

brood vs. rood

blood vs. brood

abrood vs. brood

brood vs. wistful

brood vs. somber

brood vs. mobile

brewed vs. brood

bend vs. brood

brood vs. ruminate

brood vs. prod

brood vs. clash

brood vs. dread

brood vs. monogoneutic

brood vs. nye

brood vs. brooder

breed vs. brood

brood vs. sulk

brood vs. mull

brood vs. pout

brood vs. incubation

brood vs. sullen

brood vs. brooding

brood vs. stew

brood vs. incubate

breeder vs. brood

brood vs. fry

brood vs. moodily

brood vs. protect

brood vs. dwell

brood vs. hatch

brood vs. warm

brood vs. egg

brood vs. cicada

brood vs. kin

brood vs. seed

brood vs. progeny

brood vs. offspring

brood vs. posterity

brood vs. issue

brood vs. litter

brood vs. get

brood vs. flock

brood vs. family

brood vs. colony

brood vs. children

brood vs. comb

brood vs. wasp

bee vs. brood

ant vs. brood

brood vs. insect

brood vs. social

brood vs. larvae

brood vs. hatched

brood vs. mother

brood vs. fowl

brood vs. young

brood vs. covey

brood vs. polygoneutic

brood vs. clutch

brood vs. sigh

brood vs. secretive

brood vs. pessimist

brood vs. muse

brood vs. meditation

brood vs. introspect

brood vs. indignation

brood vs. grief

anxiety vs. brood