Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To keep an egg warm to make it hatch. · To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster. · (typically with over, on or about) To dwell upon one's thoughts moodily and at length, mainly alone. · To be bred.
The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother. · The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time. · The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony. · The children in one family; offspring.
Kept or reared for breeding.
From Middle English brood, brod, from Old English brōd (“brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”), from Proto-Germanic *brōduz (“heat, breeding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“breath, mist, vapour, steam”).
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