Word Meanings - BROODY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inclined to brood. Ray.

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• INCLINING
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• INCLINED
  Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane. (more info) 1. Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively
• INCLINATORY
  Having the quality of leaning or inclining; as, the inclinatory needle. -- In*clin"a*to*ri*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.
• BROODY
  Inclined to brood. Ray.
• INCLINATION
  The angle made by two lines or planes; as, the inclination of the plane of the earth's equator to the plane of the ecliptic is about 23º 28'; the inclination of two rays of light. 5. A leaning or tendency of the mind, feelings, preferences, or
• INCLINNOMETER
  An apparatus to determine the inclination of the earth's magnetic force to the plane of the horizon; -- called also inclination compass, and dip circle.
• INCLINABLENESS
  The state or quality of being inclinable; inclination.
• BROOD
  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
• INCLINER
  One who, or that which, inclines; specifically, an inclined dial.
• INCLINABLE
  1. Leaning; tending. Likely and inclinable to fall. Bentley. 2. Having a propensity of will or feeling; leaning in disposition; disposed; propense; as, a mind inclinable to truth. Whatsoever other sins he may be inclinable to. South.
• INCLINE
  L. inclinare; pref. in- in + clinare to bend, incline; akin to E. 1. To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south. 2. Fig.:
• ABROOD
  In the act of brooding. Abp. Sancroft.
• DISINCLINE
  To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate. Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen. Clarendon. To social scenes by nature disinclined.
• DISINCLINATION
  The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to books or business. Guardian. Syn.
• MISINCLINE
  To cause to have a wrong inclination or tendency; to affect wrongly.