BPage 426
- English Word Brood Definition 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.
- English Word Brood Definition To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
- English Word Brood Definition To cherish with care.
- English Word Brood Definition To think anxiously or moodily upon.
- English Word Brooded Definition of Brood
- English Word Brooding Definition of Brood
- English Word Broody Definition Inclined to brood.
- English Word Brook Definition A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.
- English Word Brook Definition To use; to enjoy.
- English Word Brook Definition To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint.
- English Word Brook Definition To deserve; to earn.
- English Word Brook mint Definition See Water mint.
- English Word Brooked Definition of Brook
- English Word Brooking Definition of Brook
- English Word Brookite Definition A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
- English Word Brooklet Definition A small brook.
- English Word Brooklime Definition A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana.
- English Word Brookside Definition The bank of a brook.
- English Word Brookweed Definition A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.
- English Word Broom Definition 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.