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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Brood \Brood\ (br[=o]ch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Brooded}; p. pr & vb n. {Brooding}.] 1. 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. 2. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: brooding adj 1: persistently or morbidly thoughtful [syn: {broody}, {contemplative}, {meditative}, {musing}, {pensive}, {pondering}, {reflective}, {ruminative}] 2: good at incubating eggs especially a fowl kept for that purpose; "a brood hen" [syn: {brood}, {hatching}] n 1: sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body [syn: {incubation}] 2: persistent morbid meditation on a problem [syn: {pensiveness}]
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