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Array and Brood

noun

  • An orderly arrangement.
    • usage: "an array of troops in battle order"
  • An impressive display.
    • usage: "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
  • Especially fine or decorative clothing.
  • An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics.

verb

  • Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
    • usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
  • Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.

noun

  • The young of an animal cared for at one time.

verb

  • Think moodily or anxiously about something.
  • Hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing.
    • usage: "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long"
  • Be in a huff and display one's displeasure.
    • usage: "She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted"
  • Be in a huff; be silent or sullen.
  • Sit on (eggs. )
    • usage: "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"
  • (v.i.) To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
  • (v.t.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.
  • (v.t.) The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.
  • (v.t.) That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
  • (v.i.) To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
  • (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
  • (v.t.) The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
  • (v.t.) To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
  • (a.) Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
  • (v.t.) To cherish with care.
  • (v.t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.