| 单词 | a brood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa brood a. esp. of animals that lay eggs, as birds, serpents, insects, etc. a brood: a family of young hatched at once, a hatch. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > family unit > [noun] > offspring or young > of animals that lay eggs broodc1000 spawn1491 hatch1622 hatch-out1895 hatching1905 c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 10 Þæt sind beon..of ðam hunige hi bredað heora brod. a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1634 Ich not to hwan þu bredst þi brod. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 133 The foulere that..distroyed hadde hire brod. 1486 Bk. St. Albans F vj A Brode of hennys. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 201/2 Brood of byrdes, covuee doiseaux. 1611 Bible (King James) Luke xiii. 34 As a henne doeth gather her brood vnder her wings. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 18 The Serpents Brood shall die. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 121. ¶1 A Hen followed by a Brood of Ducks. 1760 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. (ed. 3) I. 356 Before the violent heats set in the first brood of [silk-] worms have finished their work. c1810 A. Mackintosh Driffield Angler 294 Brood of black game, or heath fowl. 1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere ii. 9 A wild duck leads her brood by the rushes. < as lemmas |
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