brood

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to sit on eggs

   The hens are brooding.

2. 2
   verb

   to think moodily or anxiously about something

   I was sitting in the corner brooding just now, because everyone needs a hobby.

3. 3
   verb

   to be in a huff

   You are brooding again and it is unbearable.

4. 4
   verb

   to be in a huff and display one's displeasure

   Stop brooding and enjoy the party.

5. 5
   verb

   to hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing

   The terrible vision brooded over them all day long.

6. 6
   noun

   The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.

   As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.

7. 7
   noun

   The children in one family; offspring.

   Ay, lord, she will become thy bed, I warrant, / And bring thee forth brave brood.

8. 8
   noun

   That which is bred or produced; breed; species.

   […] flocks of the airy brood, Cranes, geese or long-neck'd swans, here, there, proud of their pinions fly […]

Etymology

From Middle English brood, brod, from Old English brōd (“brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”), from Proto-Germanic *brōduz (“heat, breeding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“breath, mist, vapour, steam”).