2. Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock;
having young; as, a brood sow.
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.
As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
--Luke xiii.
34.
A hen followed by a brood of ducks. --Spectator.
2. 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.
3. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
Flocks of the airy brood, (Cranes, geese or
long-necked swans). --Chapman.
4. (Mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
{To sit on brood}, to ponder. [Poetic] --Shak.
3. To think anxiously or moodily upon.
You'll sit and brood your sorrows on a throne.
--Dryden.