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Word Meanings - BROOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Heavy waste in tin and copper ores. To sit on brood, to ponder. Shak. (more info) brut, and also to G. brühe broth, MHG. brüeje, and perh. to E. brawn, 1. The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chicken. As a hen doth gather

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Heavy waste in tin and copper ores. To sit on brood, to ponder. Shak. (more info) brut, and also to G. brühe broth, MHG. brüeje, and perh. to E. brawn, 1. The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chicken. As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings. Luke xiii. 34. A hen followed by a brood of ducks. Spectator. 2. 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. The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood. Wordsworth. 3. That which is bred or produced; breed; species. Flocks of the airy brood, . Chapman.

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  • THINKING
    Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
  • PONDEROUS
    1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
  • CONTEMPLATE
    contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
  • PONDERARY
    Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. M'Culloch.
  • COGITATE
    To engage in continuous thought; to think. He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth. Bacon. (more info) prob. fr. co-
  • PONDERAL
    Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from numeral; as, a ponderal drachma. Arbuthnot.
  • RUMINATE; RUMINATED
    Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
  • PONDEROUSLY
    In a ponderous manner.
  • THINK
    confounded with OE. thenken to think, fr. AS. þencean ; akin to D. denken, dunken, OS. thenkian, thunkian, G. denken, dünken, Icel. þekkja to perceive, to know, þykkja to seem, Goth. þagkjan, þaggkjan, to think, þygkjan to think, to seem,
  • PONDERATION
    The act of weighing. Arbuthnot.
  • MEDITATE
    To keep the mind in a state of contemplation; to dwell on anything in thought; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect. Jer. Taylor. In his law doth he meditate day and night. Ps. i. 2.
  • REFLECTOR
    1. One who, or that which, reflects. Boyle. Something having a polished surface for reflecting light or heat, as a mirror, a speculum, etc. A reflecting telescope. A device for reflecting sound.
  • PONDERATE
    To consider; to ponder.
  • PONDERING
    Deliberating. -- Pon"der*ing*ly, adv.
  • REFLECTING
    1. Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other surface. 2. Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective; contemplative; as, a reflecting mind. Reflecting circle, an astronomical instrument for measuring angless,
  • REFLECTION
    The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex. Angle of reflection, the angle which anything, as a ray of light, on leaving a reflecting surface,
  • REFLECTED
    1. Thrown back after striking a surface; as, reflected light, heat, sound, etc. 2. Hence: Not one's own; received from another; as, his glory was reflected glory. 3. Bent backward or outward; reflexed.
  • PONDEROUSNESS
    The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity.
  • REFLECTENT
    1. Bending or flying back; reflected. "The ray descendent, and the ray reflectent flying with so great a speed." Sir K. Digby. 2. Reflecting; as, a reflectent body. Sir K. Digby.
  • PONDERANCE
    Weight; gravity. Gregory.
  • EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
    Equality of weight; equipoise.
  • SUPERREFLECTION
    The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
  • MISTHINK
    To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton.
  • PREPONDERATINGLY
    In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.
  • PREPONDERATE
    prae before + ponderare to weigh, fr., pondus, ponderis, a weight. 1. To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance. An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater
  • ABROOD
    In the act of brooding. Abp. Sancroft.
  • METHINKS
    It seems to me; I think. See Me. In all ages poets have been had in special reputation, and, methinks, not without great cause. Spenser. (more info) me þynceedh, me þuhte, OE. me thinketh, me thoughte; akin to G.
  • COUNTERPONDERATE
    TO equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate.

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