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adj. Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.

adj. Deeply or seriously thoughtful.

v. Present participle of brood.

n. A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.

adj. worried and thinking long and intensely, especially about a particular problem.

adj. good at incubating eggs, especially of a fowl kept for that purpose.

n. the process of sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body; -- mostly used of birds.

Sitting, as a bird on her eggs: as, a brooding hen.

Warming: as, “the brooding heat,”

Pondering; thinking deeply; disposed to ponder or think deeply: as, a brooding disposition.

Settled; rooted; fixed in the heart: a figurative use derived from the steadfastness with which a bird sits on her eggs.

adj. deeply or seriously thoughtful

n. sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body

n. persistent morbid meditation on a problem

"Then he stood there and stared after it for a long moment, his expression brooding."

thoughtful   

giving birth    birth    parturition    birthing    melancholy   

broody    contemplative    meditative    musing    pensive    pondering    reflective    ruminative    gloomy    morose   

brood   

alluding    colluding    concluding    deluding    denuding    eluding    excluding    extruding    exuding    feuding