Random word chosen from a book

No ideas you say? I've got plenty, and this is the first one - a random word found in a random book (well, one of 6 on the shelf over there) chosen in a pin-the-tail-on-the donkey sort of way.

What's the word?

Brooding.

Yes, brooding. In italics it looks like - brooding. I didn't actually use a pin, the word jumped out and found me. Quite appropriate really, as I am no stranger to the concept. What else can you say about it (apart from 'it's a poor basis for a blog')?

Brooding is the sort of thing you do when you simply...hang on what does it actually mean?

1. To sit on or hatch (eggs).
2. To protect (young) by or as if by covering with the wings.
v.intr.
1. To sit on or hatch eggs.
2. To hover envelopingly; loom.
3.
a. To be deep in thought; meditate.
b. To focus the attention on a subject persistently and moodily; worry: brooded over the insult for several days.
c. To be depressed.
adj.

Ok, that's what I thought it was. I am now 'focussing my attention on' brooding 'persistently and moodily' - or am I merely sitting on it waiting for it to hatch? What sort of a baby would 'brooding' be anyway, were I to sit on it until it cracked open? A morose little sod I'd guess.

Perhaps we should hike up our collective skirt, peer down at the un-hatched 'brooding' and crack it into a hot frying pan? What do you say?

Brooding sandwiches for all.