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Definition of Brooding

Brooding
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.

Meaning of Brooding from wikipedia

- also practiced brooding. A specimen of the extinct Mongolian oviraptorid Citipati osmolskae was discovered in a chicken-like brooding position in 1993...
- Look up Brood or brood in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Brood may refer to: Brood, a collective term for offspring Brooding, the incubation of bird...
- The Brood is a 1979 Canadian psychological body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, and Art...
- band, their manager suggested Broods. The band liked the double meaning, relating to family and a feeling of brooding in their music. They released their...
- Brood parasitism is a subclass of parasitism and phenomenon and behavioural pattern of animals that rely on others to raise their young. The strategy...
- The common names, "gastric-brooding frog" and "platypus frog", are used to describe the two species. "Gastric-brooding" describes the unique way the...
- called southern gastric-brooding frog, is an extinct species of gastric-brooding frog native to Australia. The southern gastric-brooding frog was discovered...
- A mare is an adult female horse or other equine. In most cases, a mare is a female horse over the age of three, and a filly is a female horse three and...
- A brood patch, also known as an incubation patch, is a patch of featherless skin on the underside of birds during the nesting season. Feathers act as...
- In b****eeping, bee brood or brood refers to the eggs, larvae and pupae of honeybees. The brood of Western honey bees develops within a bee hive. In man-made...