brood pouch (brod pouch)

A pouch, or some similar cavity of the body of an animal, in which eggs or young are received and detained for a time; a brood-cavity. He [the male stickleback] only bears the brood - pouch and alone builds the nest. Claus , Zoology (trans.), p. 104. monotint, or picture in one color, as a sepia brood1 (bröd), n. [ brod , brod (= D. broed = MLG. brot = OHG. MHG. bruot , G. brut ), brood; with formative -d, from the same root (* bro , warm, heat) as G. brühe , broth: see broill . Hence breed , q. v.] 1. Off brood-space (bröd spās), n . A brood-cavity. The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood . Words worth, 2. A hatch; the young birds hatched in one nest, or those placed together in the care of one hen, or in an artificial brooder: as, a brood of chickens or of ducks.-3. That which is bred; species generated; that which is produced; hence, figuratively, sort or kind. Have you forgotten Libya's burning wastes,.. Its tainted air, and all its broods of poison? Add is on , Cato. 4. In mining , any heterogeneous mixture with tin or copper ore, as mundic or black-jack. R. Hunt .-5. A north of Scotland name for sal- mon-fry. Ants' brood. See ant1 . To sit on broodt, to be in the act of brooding, like a bird sitting on eggs; figuratively, to ponder. O'er which his melancholy sits on brood. Shak ., Hamlet, iii. 1. breed , v.] I. in trans . 1. To sit persistently on brood), equiv. to the earlier breden , breed: see eggs, covering and warming them with the body and wings, for the purpose of hatching them: said of birds. Brodyn , as byrdys, foveo, fetifico. Prompt . Parv ., p. 53. Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast aby . Milton , P. L., i. 21. 2. To rest fixedly like a brooding bird. Raven darkne brooded o'er the deep. Sir W. Jones, In the Entoproct a there is a peculiar brood - pouch . E. R. Lankester, Encyc. Brit., XIX. 433 An egg in the brood - space formed between the body and the mantle. Gegenbaur, Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 268. broody (brö'di), a. [ Tegetmeier states that a cro between two non-sitting varieties [of the common fowl] almost invariably produces a mongrel that becomes broody , and sits with remarkable steadine . Sir J. Lubbock , Origin of Civilisation, p. 354. 2. Breeding or adapted for breeding: as, a broody bitch.