Brooder house. Written By: Brooder house, in agriculture, heated enclosure to provide shelter for young livestock and poultry. Chick brooders, also called broiler houses, are typically wood-framed, wood-floored, movable structures heated by electric or oil-fired stoves and built on skids. The chicks are housed until they are about six weeks old, when they no longer need heat.
Conceit is a literary and rhetorical term for an elaborate or strained figure of speech, usually a metaphor or simile. Also called a strained metaphor or radical metaphor.
1. Excessive preoccupation with or admiration of oneself. See Synonyms at conceit. 2. A personality disorder characterized by self-preoccupation, need for admiration, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem. 3. Erotic pleasure derived from contemplation or admiration of one's own body or self, especially as a fixation on or a regression to an infantile stage of development.