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brood⋅er

  [broo-der]
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–noun
1. a device or structure for the rearing of young chickens or other birds.
2. a person or animal that broods.
Origin:
1590–1600; brood + -er 1
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brood

  [brood]
–noun
1. a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young.
2. a breed, species, group, or kind: The museum exhibited a brood of monumental sculptures.
–verb (used with object)
3. to sit upon (eggs) to hatch, as a bird; incubate.
4. (of a bird) to warm, protect, or cover (young) with the wings or body.
5. to think or worry persistently or moodily about; ponder: He brooded the problem.
–verb (used without object)
6. to sit upon eggs to be hatched, as a bird.
7. to dwell on a subject or to meditate with morbid persistence (usually fol. by over or on).
–adjective
8. kept for breeding: a brood hen.
—Verb phrase
9. brood above or over, to cover, loom, or seem to fill the atmosphere or scene: The haunted house on the hill brooded above the village.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME; OE brōd; c. D broed, G Brut. See breed

Related forms:
broodless, adjective

Synonyms:
1. Brood, litter refer to young creatures. Brood is esp. applied to the young of fowls and birds hatched from eggs at one time and raised under their mother's care: a brood of young turkeys. Litter is applied to a group of young animals brought forth at a birth: a litter of kittens or pups. 2. line, stock, strain.
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brood·er   (brōō'dər)   
n.  

  1. One that broods: brooders in the henhouse; a brooder over past errors.

  2. A heated enclosure in which fowl are raised.

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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2brood
Function: transitive verb
1 a : to sit on or incubate (eggs) b : to produce by or as if by incubation
2 : to think anxiously or gloomily about brood intransitive senses
1 of a bird : to brood eggs or young
2 a : to dwell gloomilyon a subject b : to be in a state of depression
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

brood (br&oomacr;d)
n.
See litter.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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