2. (Paint.) A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting.
Brooch
(Brooch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brooched ] To adorn as with a brooch. [R.]
Brood
(Brood) n. [OE. brod, AS. brod; akin to D. broed, OHG. bruot, G. brut, and also to G. brühe
broth, MHG. brüeje, and perh. to E. brawn, breath. Cf. Breed, v. t.]
1. The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
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,
Chapman.
4. (Mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
To sit on brood, to ponder. [Poetic] Shak.
Brood
(Brood), a.
1. Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
2. Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
Brood
(Brood) 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.
Brood
(Brood) v. t.
1. To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
2. To cherish with care. [R.]
3. To think anxiously or moodily upon.
You'll sit and brood your sorrows on a throne.
Dryden.
