| 单词 | to sit on brood or a-brood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sit on brood or a-brood ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [verb (intransitive)] > sit on eggs (of hen) to sit on brood or a-broodc1275 set1587 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > bringing forth young breeding1387 whelping1398 broodc1440 feture?1440 litterc1440 littering1542 fall1593 litterage1601 cast1646 the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > expression of dismay [phrase] > contemplate moodily to sit on brood or a-brood1600 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > be ill-humoured [phrase] to sit on brood or a-brood1600 as cross as a bear with a sore head1901 c1275 (?c1250) [implied in: Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 518 So sone so þu sittest abrode, Þu forlost al þine wise. (at abrood adv.)]. a1300 Seven Sins in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 19 A-pan is muk he sit a-brode. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 142 Þe egle is a foule þat sielde sittiþ abroode and sielde haþ briddes. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 575 What woman cannot sette an hen on broode And bryng her briddes forth? c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 53 Brode of byrdys, pullificacio. c1534 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 182 Verie commodius for the broode and feeding of cattayle. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xviii. 113 To fat their fesant cocks and hens for feastiuall daies..and not for broode. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 168 There's something in his soule Ore which his melancholy sits on brood . View more context for this quotation 1872 R. Browning Fifine lix. 12 You still blew a spark at brood I' the greyest embers. < as lemmas |
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