brood
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: From Middle English brood, brod, from Old English brōd (“brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”), from Proto-Germanic *brōduz (“heat, breeding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“breath, mist, vapour, steam”).
Inflected forms:
form: broods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: broods
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: brooding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brooded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: brooded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
gloss: The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The children in one family; offspring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Ay, lord, she will become thy bed, I warrant, / And bring thee forth brave brood.
Garland Green, the tenth in a brood of eleven, was born on June 24, 1942, in Dunleath, Mississippi.
gloss: That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] flocks of the airy brood,
Cranes, geese or long-neck'd swans, here, there, proud of their pinions fly […]
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood […]
gloss: Parentage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A large number or crowd of people, animals, or objects.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Kept or reared for breeding.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: brood ducks
a brood mare
gloss: To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.
gloss: To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.
gloss: (typically with over, on or about) To dwell upon one's thoughts moodily and at length, mainly alone.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He sat brooding over the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome.
As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood
Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit.
But Claggart's was no vulgar form of the passion. Nor, as directed toward Billy Budd, did it partake of that streak of apprehensive jealousy that marred Saul's visage perturbedly brooding on the comely young David. Claggart's envy struck deeper.
Fitzwilliam was of a genial, even playful, disposition, but he had come home brooding and depressed.
And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
gloss: To be bred.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: flock
litter
young
get
issue
offspring
posterity
progeny
seed
kin
Derived words: abrood
brood cell
brood chamber
brood cocoon
broodfish
broodless
broodling
brood mare
brood nest
brood parasite
brood-parasitic
brood parasitism
brood patch
brood pouch
brood size
brood sow
broodstock
chalkbrood
foulbrood
interbrood
intrabrood
multibrood
sacbrood
stonebrood
brood above
brooder
broodsome
broody
overbrood
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