abrood, adv., prop. phr.
(aˈbruːd)
Also 3–4 abrode.
[a prep.1 + brood n.]
On its brood or eggs; hatching eggs; breeding young, mischief, etc.
| a 1250 Owl & Nightingale 518 So sone so thu sittest abrode, Thu for-lost al thine wise. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. (1495) xii. ii. 409 The egle is a foule that selde syttyth abrood and selde hath byrdes. 1586 Hooker Giraldus's Hist. Irel. II. 153/2 That Romish cockatrice, which a long time had set abrood vpon hir egs, had now hatched hir chickins. 1656 J. Trapp Exp. Matt. v. 8 (1868) 48 b, The natural heart is Satan's throne..he sits abrood upon it. 1694 Abp. Sancroft Serm. 135 The Spirit of God sate abrood upon the whole rude Mass, as Birds upon their Eggs. |