Incubate
['ɪŋkjʊbeɪt] or ['ɪŋkjubet]
Definition
(v. i. & t.) To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.
Checked by Calvin
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Brood.
Edited by Fergus
Definition
v.i. to sit on eggs to hatch them.—v.t. to produce by hatching: (fig.) to turn over in the mind ponder over.—n. Incubā′tion the act of sitting on eggs to hatch them: (fig.) meditation on schemes: (med.) the period between the implanting of a disease and its development.—adjs. In′cubātive Incubā′tory.—n. In′cubātor a machine for hatching eggs by artificial heat.
Editor: Segre