brooder (broder)

A device for the artificial rearing of young chickens or other birds. It consists e entially of an inclosed run, where the young birds are fed, and a covered place for them to run into, which is kept at a temperature of about 90° F., either by means of a lamp placed beneath the metallic floor, or by hot air or water-pipes carried above or below the space occupied by the chicks. His face was bronzed as though by burning climes. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 414. 2. To give the color or appearance of bronze to, as by applying copper-dust or -leaf to the surface, etc.-3. To harden or make like bronze; hence, figuratively, to make hard or unfeeling. The lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead. Scott .