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▪ I. brooding, vbl. n.|ˈbruːdɪŋ|
[see -ing1.]
1. The action of incubating or hatching.
c1440Promp. Parv. 53 Brodynge of byrdys, focio. 1552Huloet, Brodyng as hennes doth to chyckens. 1656Cowley Pind. Odes 25 note, To come like an Egg that is not yet hatcht, but a brooding.
b. fig.
1805Southey Madoc in Azt. ii, But I the while Reck'd not the brooding of the storm.
c. attrib., as in brooding-place, brooding-pouch, brooding-room.
1648Milton Ps. lxxxiv, The Swallow there..Hath built her brooding nest. 1852Home Circle Apr. 155 ‘Brooding-places’..places selected by various sea-fowls, where they in common build their nests, lay their eggs, and bring up their young. 1884Roe in Harper's Mag. May 930/2 The box was placed on a ..shelf in the brooding-room.
2. A cherishing in the mind; moody mental contemplation.
1873Morley Rousseau I. 71 The morbid broodings which active life reduces to their lowest degree in most young men. 1871R. H. Hutton Ess. (ed. 2) I. Pref. 15 The brooding of man's nature..over this..experience.
▪ II. ˈbrooding, ppl. a.
[f. brood v. + -ing2.]
1. That cherishes (brood), hatches, or incubates.
1674[see brooded ppl. a.1]. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. (1817) 149 The question, why..the brooding hen should look for pleasure from her chickens. 1843Hood Song of Shirt viii, Underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling.
fig.1667Milton P.L. vii. 235 On the watrie calme His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspred.
2. fig. That hovers closely around or overhangs (as a bird over her brood).
1646Crashaw Steps to Temp. 34 Darkness hovers With a sable wing, that covers Brooding horror. a1725Pope Odyss. xix. 602 When nature's hush'd beneath her brooding shade. 1823Chalmers Serm. I. 346 A suppressed, but brooding storm. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke xxxv. (1879) 369 Lost in a brooding cloud of fog.
3. That dwells moodily upon a subject of thought.
1818M. W. Shelley Frankenst. vi. (1865) 89 Come, Victor, not with brooding thoughts of vengeance. 1875B. Taylor Faust II. 42 My father's was a sombre, brooding brain. |