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brood [brüd] (botany) Heavily infested by insects. (zoology) The young of animals. To incubate eggs or cover the young for warmth. An animal kept for breeding. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Nothing there is motionless - Nothing save the airs that brood Over the magic solitude. Not long after they had agreed upon this plan, the Eagle, being in want of provision for her young ones, swooped down while the Fox was out, seized upon one of the little cubs, and feasted herself and her brood. "Don't brood too much," she wrote to Helen, "on the superiority of the unseen to the seen. |
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