Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In or as if in the act of brooding.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb obsolete In the act of brooding.

Etymologies

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From Middle English abrod, equivalent to a- +‎ brood.

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