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

Gabble :: Gabble (v. i.) To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls..

Dressing :: Dressing (n.) The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat..

Anas :: Anas (n.) A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks..

Shoo :: Shoo (interj.) Begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls..

Pouch :: Pouch (v. t.) To swallow; -- said of fowls.

Birdcatching :: Birdcatching (n.) The art, act, or occupation or catching birds or wild fowls..

Gallinaceous :: Gallinaceous (a.) Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae.

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..

Aquatic :: Aquatic (a.) Pertaining to water; growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls..

Poultry :: Poultry (n.) Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese..

Roost :: Roost (v. i.) To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch..

Pip :: Pip (n.) A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a scale on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them..

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

Chicky :: Chicky (n.) A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling 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..

Henbane :: Henbane (n.) A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (H. niger). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus..

Hackle :: Hackle (n.) One of the peculiar, long, narrow feathers on the neck of fowls, most noticeable on the cock, -- often used in making artificial flies; hence, any feather so used..

Roost :: Roost (n.) A collection of fowls roosting together.

Gabble :: Gabble (n.) Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.

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