| 单词 | brooder | 
| 释义 | broodern. 1.  One who broods over things. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > 			[noun]		 > dejected or gloomy person > one who contemplates moodily brooder1869 1869    Daily News 5 June  				Louis Napoleon is not alone a dreamer—he is a brooder. He has brooded two whole years over the possible result of the elections.  2.  A hen, etc., that broods or hatches eggs. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > family unit > 			[noun]		 > female > parent > that broods brooder1599 1599    T. Moffett Silkewormes 26  				Now what are seedes and egges of wormes or foule, But recrements of pre-existing things..? Yea, from themselues corruption onely springs, Vnlesse by brooders heate..They changed be to belly, feete, or wings. 1854    Poultry Chron. 1 153  				An anxious Brooder.  3.  An apparatus for the artificial rearing of young chickens and other birds. Also attributive. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > 			[noun]		 > incubator or brooder furnacec1400 brood-oven1737 eccaleobion1839 hatcher1856 incubator1857 brooder1880 brood-chamber1888 1880    H. Tomlinson Artificial Incubation vii. 32  				[Chickens] may..be transferred to an artificial mother, or brooder as the Yankees call it. 1896    J. Rankin Incubator & its Use 58  				The chicks..are then ready for the brooder and food. 1901    Westm. Gaz. 10 Oct. 4/1  				The incubators and the accompanying ‘brooders’. 1935    W. H. Auden  & C. Isherwood Dog beneath Skin  i. 19  				The brooder's really excellent. I rear now 98 per cent. 1945    B. Macdonald Egg & I 		(1946)	 44  				The brooder house was finished and the seven hundred and fifty yeeping chicks and the brooder were installed. 1959    Times 9 Mar. 19/4  				A new heat storage chick brooder..has been developed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < | 
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