brood
noun
- Device to keep hatched chickens warm in the early days
verb
- to meditate moodily, or with strong feeling, on or over
- protect and hatch eggs
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /bɹuːd/ / /bɹʉwd/ / /bɹud/
adj
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”).
- Kept or reared for breeding.
“brood ducks”
“a brood mare”
noun
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”).
- The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
“As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.”
- The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
- 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.
- The children in one family; offspring.
“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.”
- That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
“[…] 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 […]”
- Parentage.
- Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
- A large number or crowd of people, animals, or objects.
verb
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”).
- To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
“In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.”
- To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
“Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.”
- (typically with over, on or about) To dwell upon one's thoughts moodily and at length, mainly alone.
“He sat brooding over the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome.”
“As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood”
- To be bred.