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  • English Word Brooch Definition 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.
  • English Word Brooch Definition A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting.
  • English Word Brooch Definition To adorn as with a brooch.
  • English Word Brood Definition The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
  • English Word Brood Definition 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.
  • English Word Brood Definition That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
  • English Word Brood Definition Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
  • English Word Brood Definition Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
  • English Word Brood Definition Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
  • English Word Brood Definition 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.
  • 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.