1. Noun
A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process.
2. Noun
The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)
3. Noun
A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams.
4. Noun
(pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear
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