To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
(typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
To be bred.
To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
Kept or reared for breeding.
Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Parentage.
The children in one family; offspring.
The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
To devise.
To emerge from an egg.
To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
To close with a hatch or hatches.
A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
A trapdoor.
An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
The act of hatching.
A gullet.
A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
A floodgate; a sluice gate.
An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
Development; disclosure; discovery.
A bedstead.
A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.