adv. [ Pref. a- + brood. ] In the act of brooding. [ Obs. ] Abp. Sancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. a- + brook, v. ] To brook; to endure. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Broach, n. ] 1. An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Honor 's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Paint.) A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Brooched ] To adorn as with a brooch. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brod, AS. brōd; 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings. Luke xiii. 34. [ 1913 Webster ]

A hen followed by a brood of ducks. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is bred or produced; breed; species. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flocks of the airy brood,
(Cranes, geese or long-necked swans). Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores. [ 1913 Webster ]

To sit on brood, to ponder. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brooding on unprofitable gold. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

When with downcast eyes we muse and brood. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cherish with care. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To think anxiously or moodily upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

You'll sit and brood your sorrows on a throne. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants.
Syn. -- incubator. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 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 ]

a. good at incubating eggs, especially of a fowl kept for that purpose; as, a brooding hen.
Syn. -- brood, hatching. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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 ]

n. a female horse used for breeding.
Syn. -- stud mare. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Inclined to brood. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brok, broke, brook, AS. brōc; akin to D. broek, LG. brōk, marshy ground, OHG. pruoh, G. bruch marsh; prob. fr. the root of E. break, so as that it signifies water breaking through the earth, a spring or brook, as well as a marsh. See Break, v. t. ] A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. Deut. viii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

Empires itself, as doth an inland brook
Into the main of waters. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Brooked p. pr. & vb. n. Brooking. ] [ OE. broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, digest, AS. br&unr_;can; akin to D. gebruiken to use, OHG. pr&unr_;hhan, G. brauchen, gebrauchen, Icel. br&unr_;ka, Goth. br&unr_;kjan, and L. frui, to enjoy. Cf. Fruit, Broker. ] 1. To use; to enjoy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shall we, who could not brook one lord,
Crouch to the wicked ten? Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To deserve; to earn. [ Obs. ] Sir J. Hawkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named from the English mineralogist, H. J. Brooke. ] (Min.) A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small brook. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is Veronica Americana. [ Formerly written broklempe or broklympe. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) See Water mint. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The bank of a brook. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brom, brome, AS. brōm; akin to LG. bram, D. brem, OHG. brāmo broom, thorn&unr_;bush, G. brombeere blackberry. Cf. Bramble, n. ] 1. (Bot.) A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom. [ 1913 Webster ]

Butcher's broom, a plant (Ruscus aculeatus) of the Smilax family, used by butchers for brooms to sweep their blocks; -- called also knee holly. See Cladophyll. --
Dyer's broom, a species of mignonette (Reseda luteola), used for dyeing yellow; dyer's weed; dyer's rocket. --
Spanish broom. See under Spanish. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Naut.) See Bream. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A tall variety of grass (Sorghum vulgare technicum), having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long stiff branches, of which brooms are made. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand Aphyllon Ludovicianum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A broomstick. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stick used as a handle of a broom. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom. [ 1913 Webster ]

If land grow mossy or broomy. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. Ruscus aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The apartment in which a club meets. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. small Eurasian shrub (Genista tinctoria) having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and U.S.; sometimes grown as an ornamental.
Syn. -- woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's weed, dyer's rocket, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A kind of twilled linen cloth for lining. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Genista (G. tinctoria); dyer's weed; -- called also greenweed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small shrubby tree of New Zealand having weeping branches and racemes of white to violet flowers followed by woolly indehiscent 2-seeded pods.
a broom is any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]