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.