a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young.

a breed, species, group, or kind

The museum exhibited a brood of monumental sculptures.

to sit upon (eggs) to hatch, as a bird; incubate.

(of a bird) to warm, protect, or cover (young) with the wings or body.

to think or worry persistently or moodily about; ponder

He brooded the problem.

to sit upon eggs to be hatched, as a bird.

to dwell on a subject or to meditate with morbid persistence (usually fol. by over or on ).

kept for breeding

a brood hen.

brood above or over, to cover, loom, or seem to fill the atmosphere or scene

The haunted house on the hill brooded above the village.

noun

child

verb

not worry

noun

begats , breed , chicks , clutch , descendants , family , flock , hatch , infants , issue , litter , offspring , posterity , progeniture , progeny , scions , seed , young , get

verb

be in brown study , bleed , chafe inwardly , consider , daydream , deliberate , despond , dream , dwell upon , eat one’s heart out , fret , gloom , grieve , lament , languish , meditate , mope , mull over , muse , ponder , reflect , repine , ruminate , sigh , speculate , stew over , sulk , sweat out * , sweat over , think about , think upon , worry , cark , dwell , agonize , breed , children , clutch , contemplate , eat one\'s heart out , family , flock , fry , hatch , incubate , issue , litter , meditate (morbidly) , multitude , nest , offspring , pout , progeny , race , sit , weep , young