brood

brood has 17 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. the young of an animal cared for at one time