The young of an animal cared for at one time.

Roget 102: multitude; numerous etc. adj.; numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion etc. (plenty) 639; legion, host; great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd etc. (assemblage) 72; lots; all in the world and his wife.    [Increase of number] greater number, majority; multiplication, multiple.    ... show more

Roget 167: posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs; great-grandchild.    child, son, daughter; butcha^†; bantling, scion; acrospire^†, plumule^†, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit^†, branch; off-shoot, off-set; ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir-presumptive; chip off the old block; heredity; rising generation.    straight descent, sonship^†, line, lineage, filiation^†, primogeniture.    ... show more

Dutch: nest, nageslacht, legsel, gebroed, uitbroeden, broeden, piekeren, broed, broedsel

Think moodily or anxiously about something.

synonym: dwell.

Dutch: dubben

Hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing:
— The terrible vision brooded over her all day long.

synonyms: bulk large, hover, loom.

Be in a huff and display one's displeasure.

synonyms: pout, sulk.

Be in a huff; be silent or sullen.

synonyms: grizzle, stew.

Sit on (eggs):
— Birds brood.

synonyms: cover, hatch, incubate.

Dutch: broeden