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abrood, adv., prop. phr.|aˈbruːd|
Also 3–4 abrode.
[a prep.1 + brood n.]
On its brood or eggs; hatching eggs; breeding young, mischief, etc.
a1250Owl & Nightingale 518 So sone so thu sittest abrode, Thu for-lost al thine wise. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. (1495) xii. ii. 409 The egle is a foule that selde syttyth abrood and selde hath byrdes. 1586Hooker Giraldus's Hist. Irel. II. 153/2 That Romish cockatrice, which a long time had set abrood vpon hir egs, had now hatched hir chickins. 1656J. Trapp Exp. Matt. v. 8 (1868) 48 b, The natural heart is Satan's throne..he sits abrood upon it. 1694Abp. Sancroft Serm. 135 The Spirit of God sate abrood upon the whole rude Mass, as Birds upon their Eggs. |