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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.]
1913 Definition
Brood (brood)
n.(br***oomac]d)
Brood
[OE. brod, AS. br1913 webster dictionaryd; akin to D. broed, OHG. bruot, G. brut, and also to G. brühe broth, MHG. brüeje, and perh. to E. brawn, breath. Cf. Breed,
  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. 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.

  3. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.

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

  4. Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

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

  5. Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
  6. Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
  10. To cherish with care.
    [R.]
  11. To think anxiously or moodily upon.

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

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