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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Brood \Brood\ (br[=o]ch), verb (used without an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
brooding \brood"ing\, adjective good at incubating eggs, especially of a fowl kept for that purpose; as, a brooding hen.
Syn: brood, hatching. [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
brooding \brooding\ n. the process of sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body; -- mostly used of birds.
Syn: incubation. [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
brooding \brood"ing\, adjective
1. worried and thinking long and intensely, especially about a particular problem.
Syn: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative, gloomy, morose. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
brooding
adjective: persistently or morbidly thoughtful [syn: {broody}, {contemplative}, {meditative}, {musing}, {pensive}, {pondering}, {reflective}, {ruminative}]
noun
1: sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body [syn: {incubation}]
2: persistent morbid meditation on a problem [syn: {pensiveness}]
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