Brood
[bruːd] or [brud]
Definition
(noun.) the young of an animal cared for at one time.
(verb.) sit on (eggs); 'Birds brood'; 'The female covers the eggs'.
(verb.) think moodily or anxiously about something.
(verb.) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; 'The terrible vision brooded over her all day long'.
Editor: Lyle--From WordNet
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.
Checker: Mortimer
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Incubate.
n. Offspring, progeny, issue.
Typist: Naomi
Definition
v.t. to sit upon or cover in order to breed or hatch: to hatch: to cover as with wings: to mature or foster with care: to meditate moodily upon.—v.i. to sit as a hen on eggs: to hover over: to think anxiously for some time: to meditate silently (with on over): to be bred.—n. something bred: offspring children or family: a race kind: parentage: the number hatched at once.—adj. for breeding as in brood-mare &c.—adv. Brood′ingly.—adj. Brood′y inclined to sit or incubate.
Editor: Miriam
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a fowl with her brood, denotes that, if you are a woman, your cares will be varied and irksome. Many children will be in your care, and some of them will prove wayward and unruly. Brood, to others, denotes accumulation of wealth.
Typist: Silvia
Examples
- It is she who remains and suffers--and has the leisure to think, and brood, and remember. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You are sore about your poverty; you brood over that. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- No, thank you, I replied, turning from the table to brood over the fire. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But in default of a listener, she had to brood over the change in her life silently as heretofore. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Perhaps I HAVE allowed myself to brood too much. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Silence and solitude brood over Tahoe; and silence and solitude brood also over this lake of Genessaret. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Beth ate no more, but crept away to sit in her shadowy corner and brood over the delight to come, till the others were ready. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- How I grieved that he brooded over pain, and pain from such a cause! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Antiquity brooded above this region, business was banished thence. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Again Madame Olenska brooded silently; then she said: After all, it was to be expected. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He sank into the chair, and brooded over the embers, and shed tears. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In silence, but without respite, she had brooded over these scenes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It brooded upon the _Revanche_, the return match with Prussia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In some degree, also, they diverted my mind from the thoughts over which it had brooded for the last month. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- An impressive silence broods over the monstrous structure where such multitudes of men and women were wont to assemble in other days. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A silence broods over the scene that is depressing to the spirits. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And over all broods that mysterious stillness, that stealthy quiet, that befits so well this old dreaming Venice. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The brooding Lammle, with certain white dints coming and going in his palpitating nose, looked as if some tormenting imp were pinching it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- As Tarzan stood upon the threshold brooding, D'Arnot had entered the cabin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I told her so, as she sat brooding after this outburst. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- When women are brooding over their children, or busied in a sick-room, who has not seen in their faces those sweet angelic beams of love and pity? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Her brooding look, as of a mind withdrawn yet not averted, seemed to Mr. Rosedale full of a subtle encouragement. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It happened so to catch her fancy that she took it up in a low brooding voice as if she were singing in her sleep. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Editor: Rufus