[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young.", "a breed, species, group, or kind:The museum exhibited a brood of monumental sculptures.Synonyms: strain , stock , line"]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to sit upon (eggs) to hatch, as a bird; incubate.", "(of a bird) to warm, protect, or cover (young) with the wings or body.", "to think or worry persistently or moodily about; ponder:He brooded the problem."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to sit upon eggs to be hatched, as a bird.", "to dwell on a subject or to meditate with morbid persistence (usually followed byoveroron)."]}, {"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["kept for breeding:a brood hen."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["to cover, loom, or seem to fill the atmosphere or scene:The haunted house on the hill brooded above the village."]}]