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

Nest :: Nest (n.) The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young.

Guano :: Guano (n.) A substance found in great abundance on some coasts or islands frequented by sea fowls, and composed chiefly of their excrement. It is rich in phosphates and ammonia, and is used as a powerful fertilizer..

Lurchline :: Lurchline (n.) The line by which a fowling net was pulled over so as to inclose the birds.

Sitting :: Sitting (n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls..

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..

Webbed :: Webbed (a.) Having the toes united by a membrane, or web; as, the webbed feet of aquatic fowls..

Waterfowl :: Waterfowl (n.) Any bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; -- used also collectively..

Decoy :: Decoy (n.) A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot..

Truss :: Truss (n.) To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it..

Fowler :: Fowler (n.) A sportsman who pursues wild fowl, or takes or kills for food..

Fat :: Fat (a.) To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep..

Scry :: Scry (v.) A flock of wild fowl.

Microbion :: Microbion (n.) A microscopic organism; -- particularly applied to bacteria and especially to pathogenic forms; as, the microbe of fowl cholera..

Sheldfowl :: Sheldfowl (n.) The common sheldrake.

Gamecock :: Gamecock (n.) The male game fowl.

Gill :: Gill (n.) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.

Web-footed :: Web-footed (a.) Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web-footed fowl..

Aucupation :: Aucupation (n.) Birdcatching; fowling.

Bird :: Bird (n.) Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2)..

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