brood
brood is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 11 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.(Mining) 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- acrospire
- bantling
- block
- branch
- breed
- child
- chip
- daughter
- descendant
- descent
- fall
- family
- far
- farrow
- father
- filial
- filiation
- from
- fruit
- generation
- great-grandchild
- heir
- heiress
- heredity
- issue
- like
- line
- lineage
- litter
- man
- off
- offspring
- old
- plumule
- posterity
- presumptive
- primogeniture
- progeny
- ramification
- rising
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is brood.
- What is a hen followed by a brood of ducks. Spectator called?
- What is that which is bred or produced; breed; species. Flocks of the airy brood, (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans). Chapman called?
- What is heavy waste in tin and copper ores. To sit on brood, to ponder. [Poetic] Shak called?
- What is kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow called?
- What is to sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens called?
- What is to think anxiously or moodily upon. You'll sit and brood your sorrows on a throne. Dryden called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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