Definition of fowl

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Fowl (n.) Any bird; esp., any large edible bird..

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Batfowling :: Batfowling (n.) A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise..
Pick :: Pick (v.) To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc..
Henhouse :: Henhouse (n.) A house or shelter for fowls.
Appetency :: Appetency (n.) Specifically: An instinctive inclination or propensity in animals to perform certain actions, as in the young to suck, in aquatic fowls to enter into water and to swim; the tendency of an organized body to seek what satisfies the wants of its organism..
Peacock :: Peacock (n.) In common usage, the species in general or collectively; a peafowl..
Rooster :: Rooster (n.) The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.
Sitting :: Sitting (n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls..
Brood :: Brood (v. i.) To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding..
Fricassee :: Fricassee (n.) A dish made of fowls, veal, or other meat of small animals cut into pieces, and stewed in a gravy..
Maybird :: Maybird (n.) The whimbrel; -- called also May fowl, May curlew, and May whaap..
Cock :: Cock (n.) The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls..
Water Dog :: Water dog () A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained..
Web-footed :: Web-footed (a.) Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web-footed fowl..
Troopfowl :: Troopfowl (n.) The American scaup duck.
Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal..
Fowl :: Fowl (v. i.) To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc..
Anas :: Anas (n.) A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks..
Pintado :: Pintado (n.) Any bird of the genus Numida. Several species are found in Africa. The common pintado, or Guinea fowl, the helmeted, and the crested pintados, are the best known. See Guinea fowl, under Guinea..
Palmiped :: Palmiped (a.) Web-footed, as a water fowl..
Volatile :: Volatile (n.) A winged animal; wild fowl; game.
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