Crossword clues for brood
brood
- Be in a funk
- The _____ ,1979 Cronenberg movie
- Keep the eggs warm
- Hatchling group
- Family of young animals
- Family of offspring
- Be moody
- Be depressed
- Young family
- Worry over
- Think upon
- Think anxiously
- Sit pensively
- Ponder — family
- Nest of chicks
- Mother hen's responsibility
- Mother hen's offspring
- Meditate gloomily
- Hen's group
- Hen's concern
- Hen's charge
- Group of nestlings
- Group of hatchlings
- Fret repeatedly (over)
- Exhibit glumness
- Children in a family
- Chicks together
- Bunch of chicks
- Bunch of baby birds
- Be in an adolescent mood
- Act moody
- Act all emo
- Sit on
- The Brady kids, e.g.
- Little ones
- Nesters
- Nestful
- Ones a mother hen mothers
- Coop offspring
- Ponder, with "on"
- Mother hen's charges
- Sulk
- The young of an animal cared for at one time
- Progeny
- Worry persistently
- Coop group
- Incubator newcomers
- Litter
- Offspring
- Muse morosely
- Mope
- Meditate moodily on family
- Made tea, we hear, for children
- Children made thematic stuff, it’s said
- Family of young birds
- Ponder morbidly
- A lot of children ponder morbidly
- Think anxiously for some time
- Have the blues
- Group of chicks
- Agonize (over)
- Persistently worry
- Farm family
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brood \Brood\, a.
Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
Brood \Brood\ (br[=oo]d), v. t.
To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
To cherish with care. [R.]
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To think anxiously or moodily upon.
You'll sit and brood your sorrows on a throne.
--Dryden.
Brood \Brood\ (br[=oo]d), n. [OE. brod, AS. br[=o]d; akin to D. broed, OHG. bruot, G. brut, and also to G. br["u]he broth, MHG. br["u]eje, and perh. to E. brawn, breath. Cf. Breed, v. t.]
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The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
--Luke xiii. 34.A hen followed by a brood of ducks.
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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. -
That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
Flocks of the airy brood, (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans).
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(Mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
To sit on brood, to ponder. [Poetic]
--Shak.
Brood \Brood\ (br[=o]ch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Brooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Brooding.]
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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.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English brod "brood, fetus, hatchling," from Proto-Germanic *brod (cognates: Middle Dutch broet, Old High German bruot, German Brut "brood"), literally "that which is hatched by heat," from *bro- "to warm, heat," from PIE *bhre- "burn, heat, incubate," from root *bhreue- "to boil, bubble, effervesce, burn" (see brew (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother. 2 (context uncountable English) The young of any lay an egg creature, especially if produced at the same time. 3 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. 4 The children in one family. 5 That which is bred or produced; breed; species. 6 (context mining English) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch. 2 (context transitive English) To protect. 3 (context intransitive English) To dwell upon moodily and at length.
WordNet
n. the young of an animal cared for at one time
v. think moodily or anxiously about something [syn: dwell]
hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long" [syn: hover, loom, bulk large]
be in a huff and display one's displeasure; "She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted" [syn: sulk, pout]
sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs" [syn: hatch, cover, incubate]
Wikipedia
In entomology, the term brood is used to refer to the embryo or egg, the larva and the pupa stages in the life of holometabolous insects. The brood of honey bees develops within a bee hive. In man-made, removable frame hives, such as Langstroth hives, each frame which is mainly brood is called a brood frame. Brood frames usually have some pollen and nectar or honey in the upper corners of the frame. The rest of the brood frames cells may be empty or occupied by brood in various developmental stages. During the brood raising season, the bees may reuse the cells from which brood has emerged for additional brood or convert it to honey or pollen storage. Bees show remarkable flexibility in adapting cells to a use best suited for the hive's survival.
Brood may refer to:
- Brood, a collective term for offspring
- Brooding, the incubation of bird eggs by their parents
- Brood (honeybee), the young of a beehive
- The Brood, a 1979 horror film directed by David Cronenberg
- Brood (comics), an alien species from the Marvel Comics universe
- The Brood, and The New Brood, WWF professional wrestling stables in 1999
- The Brood (band), a crossover thrash band from Venice, California
- The Brood (album), a 1984 album by Herman Brood
- Broods, a New Zealand pop music duo
- "The Brood", an episode of the television series of Exosquad
- Elliott Brood, a death country band from Toronto
- Brood, the dragon clan in Breath of Fire III
- Individual broods of North American periodical cicadas:
- Brood X, the largest brood, which emerges on a 17-year cycle
- Brood XIII, a brood centered on Northern Illinois and its surrounding area, which also emerges on a 17-year cycle.
- Brood XIX, a large brood in the Southern United States which emerges on a 13-year cycle
Brood is the second studio album by Melbourne band My Friend the Chocolate Cake. The album was released in 1994 and won the 1995 ARIA Music Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album.
The Brood are a race of insectoid, parasitic, extraterrestrial beings that appear in the comic books published by Marvel Comics, especially Uncanny X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Dave Cockrum, they first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #155 (March 1982).
The Brood possess wings, fanged teeth and a stinging tail. They have a hive mentality and mindlessly follow a queen. To reproduce, they must infect other races with their eggs. They are an obvious pastiche to the Xenomorphs from the Alien film franchise.
Usage examples of "brood".
Zelzony has settled to a painful brood over her explosive and ambivalent emotions, trying to wrestle them into a shape more pleasing to her and more conducive to maintaining her self-esteem.
Such was the style of discontent, brooding over the dark prospect of approaching poverty.
Transferring from the clay to the marble block, he carved the statue of young Lorenzo for the niche above Dawn and Dusk, using an architectonic approach, designing this figure of contemplation to be static, tight, withdrawn, involved in its own interior brooding.
How had I not noticed, in the archive, that the region represented on those maps had exactly the brooding, spread-winged shape of my dragon, as if he cast his shadow over it from above?
The age of the tomb, however, implied it had preceded the advent of the noble bastardy which lifted the Scorpioni to possession of this ground -or, more strange, that the sepulchre had been brought with them from some other spot, a brooding heirloom.
Perched on a jutting eminence, and half shrouded in the bushes which clothed it, the silent fisherman took his place, while his fly was made to kiss the water in capricious evolutions, such as the experienced angler knows how to employ to beguile the wary victim from close cove, or gloomy hollow, or from beneath those decaying trunks of overthrown trees which have given his brood a shelter from immemorial time.
Guzman Bento, usually full of fanciful fears and brooding suspicions, had sudden accesses of unreasonable self-confidence when he perceived himself elevated on a pinnacle of power and safety beyond the reach of mere mortal plotters.
In consequence of their endlessly varied, constantly recurring, intensely earnest speculations and musings over this contrast of finite restlessness and pain with infinite peace and blessedness, a contrast which constitutes the preaching of their priests, saturates their sacred books, fills their thoughts, and broods over all their life, the Orientals are pervaded with a profound horror of individual existence, and with a profound desire for absorption into the Infinite Being.
Her deeper thoughts were elsewhere-without doubt, still brooding upon those vicious employers of hers who laughed at her blotched face.
For all of the following twenty-four hours captain Bullen had brooded over the recent happenings, then had sent off a couple of cablegrams, one to the head office in London, the other to the Ministry of Transport, telling them what he, captain Bullen, thought of them.
Father got up and walked out after that great battle scene when that ghostly spectre appeared standing there brooding over those two corpses in the Bloody Lane that was supposed to be Grandfather and when I said maybe that was why Father was upset with me for exploiting the family and Grandfather if he thought I wrote the script like it said in the newspaper and I asked him to read my last act he said he.
Brood galleries are then made longitudinally just under the bark of the trunk by the female, and a row of eggs is placed along either side of this Brood chamber.
ALSOP, AT THE TIME MONK CAME TO COLLEGE, HAD BECOME A kind of Mother Machree of the campus, the brood hen of yearling innocents, the guide and mentor of a whole flock of fledgeling lives.
Over the island brooded a spirit sullen, alien, implacable, filled with the threat of latent, malefic forces waiting to be unleashed.
Remembering the malformed goblin offspring caged in the cellar of the Havendahl house, I inquired about the frequency of birth defects in their broods, and I discovered that our suspicions were correct.