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.
LINK / CITE ADD TO WORD LIST. verb. To conceive is to get pregnant, to coming up with a plan or to imagine something. An example of conceive is when a man and a woman create a child. An example of conceive is when you come up with an idea for a new product. An example of conceive is when you cannot imagine winning the lottery.