Brood vs Harch - What's the difference?
brood | harch |
The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
* Bible, Luke xiii. 34
(uncountable) 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 children in one family.
That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
* Chapman
(mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
To protect.
To dwell upon moodily and at length.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Tennyson
As a noun brood
is .As an interjection harch is
the command issued by the drum major of a marching band to move forwards.brood
English
Noun
(en noun)- As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
- Flocks of the airy brood , / (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans).
See also
* flock, litter, young, get, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, kin * cicadaVerb
(en verb)- In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.
- Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.
- He sat brooding about the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome.
- Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit.
- when with downcast eyes we muse and brood