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.
conceit. n. 1. a high, often exaggerated, opinion of oneself or one's accomplishments; vanity. 2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) an elaborate image or far-fetched comparison, esp as used by the English Metaphysical poets. 3.