Hypertext Webster Gateway: "brooded"

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.

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