Brood

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (v. t.) To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.

(2): (v. i.) 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.

(3): (v. t.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.

(4): (v. i.) 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.

(5): (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.

(6): (v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

(7): (a.) Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.

(8): (v. t.) The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.

(9): (v. t.) 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.

(10): (v. t.) That which is bred or produced; breed; species.

(11): (v. t.) To cherish with care.

King James Dictionary

Brood

1. To sit on and cover, as a fowl on her eggs for the purpose of warming them and hatching chickens, or as a hen over her chickens, to warm and protect them. 2. To sit on to spread over, as with wings as, to sit brooding over the vast abyss. 3. To remain a long time in anxiety or solicitous thought to have the mind uninterruptedly dwell a long time on a subject as, the miser broods over his gold. 4. To mature any thing with care.

BROOD, To sit over, cover and cherish as, a hen broods her chickens.

1. To cherish.

You'll brood your sorrows on a throne.

BROOD, n. Offspring progeny formerly used of human beings in elegant works, and we have brother, from this word but it is now more generally used in contempt.

1. A hatch the young birds hatched at once as a brood of chickens or of ducks. 2. That which is bred species generated that which is produced.

Lybia's broods of poison.

3. The act of covering the eggs, or of brooding. Unusual.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Νοσσιά (Strong'S #3555 — Noun Feminine — nossia — nos-see-ah' )

primarily, "a nest," denotes "a brood,"  Luke 13:34 . Some texts have nossion in the plural, as  Matthew 23:37 , "chicken."

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Νοσσία , a Nest of young birds, e.g. of chickens (q, v.),  Luke 13:34.