(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some people are lucky enough to have someone to look after them,” Leigh broods.
(2) Under resting conditions thoracic skin temperature (Tths) and metabolic heat production (M) were significantly higher in broody than in non-broody hens, indicating a permanently increased conductance of the brood patch.
(3) As well as George Dyer, there was the murderer Perry Smith in the Truman Capote story Infamous, the hot-headed mobster child-killer in Road To Perdition, the brooding Ted Hughes in Gwyneth Paltrow’s Sylvia biopic and a belligerent Mossad assassin in Steven Spielberg’s Munich.
(4) Testosterone levels dropped at the onset of incubation and remained low through the brooding period.
(5) Starting small, with oddly tweaked vocal samples and ominous-sounding piano, the first half is brilliantly brooding, to the point where the first chorus of “I love these streets but they weren’t meant for me to walk” arrives at the 45-second mark just as all the music drops away completely.
(6) The other half was brooded on either new or reused litter without paper.
(7) These changes suggest that all the food was not being digested by the adult birds during brooding but was almost exclusively regurgitated to feed the squabs.
(8) The strains differ in their effects on the sex ratio and size of another female's brood in the same host.
(9) From the beginning, her father was determined that his brood – Hodge is one of five – be fully integrated.
(10) The X-ray component of dominant lethality in brood 1, representing mostly mature spermatozoa, was negative, indicating a lower than expected lethality induced by X-irradiation in the presence of P element mobility.
(11) The effects of tritoqualine and alpha-hydrazinohistidine injected into eggs on the 16th, 17th or 18th day of chick embryo age on hatching time, histamine level and diamine oxidase (DAO) activity in brood's tissues were also examined.
(12) T levels increased slightly toward the end of the brooding phase.
(13) The three brood Ceriodaphnia dubia test was carried out three nonconsecutive times, each period being separated by the previous one by three weeks.
(14) Brooding neonates at 26.7 C for 3 days in Trials 3 and 4 resulted in consistently lower body weights and gain and higher serum corticosterone, thyroxine, total protein, albumin, and globulin.
(15) We took a couple of days to brood, and then I spoke to Justin and said I thought I should give in, if I didn't have to have anything to do with the winner.
(16) A bookish teenager regarded as the smartest of the Murdoch brood, James endured an awkward adolescence in the public eye and was famously photographed asleep on a sofa at a press conference while working as a 15-year-old intern at his father's old paper, the Sydney Mirror, a picture the rival Sydney Morning Herald gleefully ran on its front page the next day.
(17) We have examined the effects of relaxing each of these assumptions and obtained the following results: (1) When broods mature asynchronously the optimum sex ratio is considerably more female biased than the Hamiltonian prediction.
(18) Q has upped his gadget game Facebook Twitter Pinterest The brooding and sombre Skyfall scored a few points for post-modern playfulness via its introductory scene for the new Q, in which Ben Whishaw might as well have offered Bond a couple of Netflix vouchers and a year’s subscription to Cosmopolitan for all the wow factor his proffered “gadgets” achieved.
(19) One-d-old chicks placed in corners of a 29 x 14 m brooding area dispersed evenly over the whole area in a period of 48 h. 3.
(20) In an attempt to identify a minimum prophylactic dose of BCG which would not induce granulomas, cotton rats were treated intraperitoneally with various doses of BCG (10(1) to 10(7) colony-forming units [CFU]) and then inoculated intraperitoneally with one brood capsule of the parasite.
Grizzle
Definition:
(n.) Gray; a gray color; a mixture of white and black.
Example Sentences:
(1) His defense was a big reason that the Grizzlies' offense was often stymied during the conference finals, so much so that he would probably be a person of interest if basketball investigators looked into the mysterious May disappearance of Grizzles forward Zach Randolph.
(2) There’s not an insignificant ‘if’ in that question, and that’s what everybody is pretty interested to find out, is what decision the vice-president is going to make.” ‘I didn’t deserve to be president’ Biden is a grizzled campaign veteran, and not in an entirely good way.
(3) John Simm plays a grizzled ex-cop from LA living in the Pacific north-west, who, when his wife (Mira Sorvino) goes missing, finds himself hurled into a mysterious, murky world.
(4) During his swing through the state on Thursday, he stopped to open a new campaign office in Ottumwa, packed to overflowing with wide-eyed students and grizzled party veterans.
(5) Art Cashin, a grizzled veteran of the New York Stock Exchange trading floor, just compared Bitcoin to the infamous Dutch tulip bubble , one of the standard comparisons for any serious modern financial crisis.
(6) I'd like to say I tasted them first on some misty Irish moorland, or was fed them by grizzled crofters in the Scottish highlands (where they are known as tattie scones).
(7) I’m grey, grizzled, just counting down the days to my death panel.” He added: “Even some foreign leaders have been looking ahead, anticipating my departure.
(8) It is like a driver coming to a roadblock on a road they’ve never travelled before and three grizzled veterans say: “Don’t go any further, we have been up and down this road many times and we’re warning you there are falling rocks, mudslides, dangerous hairpin bends and then a sheer drop.” And the driver says: “Screw you, stop patronising me.
(9) Ashker's journey from teenage tearaway to grizzled jailhouse scholar underpins a largely untold story of how Bobby Sands, Mayan cosmology, class-consciousness and the Arab spring inspired one of the biggest challenges to US penal policy in living memory.
(10) "That guy looks like he just got off tour in 1987," says Carney, gesturing at a particularly grizzled rocker, before quickly adding, "You have to be careful in Nashville about how loud you observe."
(11) In the red corner, Raúl Castro, grizzled veteran of the revolution led by his older brother Fidel, and now president of a Cuba once again undergoing dramatic change.
(12) Le Pen père is a grizzled ex-paratrooper who fought to keep Algeria French and founded the Front National in 1972 to highlight issues such as immigration, race and identity.
(13) "I don't know about you, but I'm getting tired of the big oil companies always bellyaching that we can't afford clean energy," says a grizzled old man in a faded checked work shirt.
(14) But the Tory MP Dominic Raab, a former government lawyer and member of parliament's joint committee on human rights, said: "We need a grizzled, criminal prosecutor rather than a defence, human rights lawyer.
(15) Second, black and white hair was collected from each of seven human subjects with grizzled hair, who were receiving or had been administered haloperidol at fixed daily doses for more than 1 month, and the concentration of haloperidol in each type of hair was measured.
(16) They soon find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, before they take shelter in a tiny shack alongside a group of grizzled, gun-toting outlaws.
(17) And the tiny facial gesture that a grizzled Donald Sutherland makes with his mouth at the very end, when he realises that the perfect running of his system has been undermined, made me give an inward cheer.
(18) When black and white hairs were taken from a patient with grizzled hair, who had been treated with ofloxacin, a much larger quantity of the drug was detected in the black hair.
(19) Then, as an illustration of exploratory categorical data analysis, the experimental data of Grizzle are analyzed by using the second method of quantification.
(20) Grizzle first proposed a two-stage procedure for analysing the data from such a trial.