brooded

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding. [1913 Webster]

Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

2.To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes. [1913 Webster]

Brooding on unprofitable gold.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit.— Hawthorne.[1913 Webster]

When with downcast eyes we muse and brood.— Tennyson.[1913 Webster]