Word Finder - fowl

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A bird.

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A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.

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Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans.

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To hunt fowl.

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We took our guns and went fowling.

Domestic and wild fowl are generally abundant.

When fully dilated, the pupil is round in all birds; when contracted it is usually round, rarely oval as in the fowl.

The red jungle fowl (Gallus ferrugineus), supposed to be the ancestor of our own poultry, is not good eating; and the same may be said of the peacock (Pavo cristatus), except when young.

The fowl possesses all five ossifications at birth, and for a long while the middle piece forming the keel is by far the largest.

Lelewel, the Polish historian, considers that it is merely a translation into Latin of some such name as Kura, signifying "a fowl."

This excellent book is written by an experienced bantam and large fowl poultry breeder and show judge.

Crop and food residues are used to grow earthworms to feed fish and fowl.

In addition, the first year's diet included various fowl and fish.

Then, it is true, two lateral points of ossification appear at the margin, but subsequently the remaining three are developed, and when once formed they grow with much greater rapidity than in the fowl, so that by the time the young duck is quite independent of its parents, and can shift for itself, the whole sternum is completely bony.

The birds include the ostrich, marabout, vultures, kites, hawks, ground hornbill, great bustard, guinea fowl, partridge, lesser bustard, quail, snipe, duck, widgeon, teal, geese of various kinds, paraquets, doves, blue, bronze and green pigeons, and many others.

Allrich also doesn't shy away from seafood, fowl or other meats.

TripAdvisor.com is a great way to compare the flight rates of all the major travel websites, including Orbitz and Travelocity, in one fowl swoop.

The custom is vouched for by travellers as still observed in Borneo, Burma, Uganda and elsewhere, the animal chosen being a pig or a fowl.

In disposition they are quiet and gentle, and do not show much intelligence; they are also less noisy than the true lemurs, only when alarmed or angered making a noise which has been compared to the clucking of a fowl.

Some have added fish to their dietary; but, speaking generally, all who are called vegetarians will be found to abstain from the use of flesh and fowl and almost invariably also from fish as food.

Some of them inhabit forests and others the more open country; but setting aside size (which in this group varies from that of a quail to that of a large common fowl) there is an unmistakable uniformity of appearance among them as a whole, so that almost anybody having seen one species of the group would always recognize another.

The dog, the cat, the pig, the domestic fowl (which is not very obviously related to the bantam of the woods), the buffalo, a smaller breed than that met with in the Malayan Peninsula, and in some districts bullocks of the Brahmin breed and small horses, are the principal domestic animals.

In March 1626 he came to London, and when driving one day near Highgate, was taken with a desire to discover whether snow would act as an antiseptic. He stopped his carriage, got out at a cottage, purchased a fowl, and with his own hands assisted to stuff it with snow.

The guinea-fowl, however, has long been in this condition in Jamaica and St Helena, and the fowl in Hawaii and other Polynesian islands.

A large kind of fowl known as Lan (from the province Lar, in southern Persia) is said to be a descendant of fowls brought to Persia by the Portuguese in the 16th century.

There are also wild duck, geese and other water fowl, hawk's bill, laggerheads and partridges.

The gallinaceous birds include the peacock, which everywhere adorns the forest bordering on the plains, jungle fowl and several pheasants; partridges, of which the chikor may be named as most abundant, and snowpheasants and partridges, found only at the greatest elevations.

Natural immunity against toxins must be taken into account, and, if Ehrlich's view with regard to toxic action be correct, this may depend upon either the absence of chemical affinity of the living molecules of the tissues for the toxic molecule, or upon insensitiveness to the action of the toxophorous group. It has been shown with regard to the former, for example, that the nervous system of the fowl, which possesses immunity against tetanus toxin, has little combining affinity for it.

Of these three classes, and of other than purely zoological interest, are mosquitoes, which swarm in summer in the interior in vast numbers; sea fowl, which are remarkably abundant near the Aleutians; moose, and especially caribou, which in the past were very numerous in the interior and of extreme economic importance to the natives.

Geese, ducks and other water fowl frequent the lakes and bays in the migratory season, and eagles, gulls, hawks, kingfishers, owls, plover, woodcock, " partridge " (ruffed grouse), robins, orioles, bobolinks, blue birds, swallows, sparrows, and many other insectivorous birds are common.

Some abstained from all living creatures; others ate fish; others fish and fowl.

Besides the dog and the pig, which (with the domestic fowl) must have been introduced in early times, the only land mammals are certain species of rats and bats.

The fen-drainage resulted in the extinction of many local industries, such as the trade in goose-feathers and the export of wild fowl to the London markets, a 17th-century writer terming this county "the aviary of England, 3000 mallards with other birds having been caught sometimes in August at one draught."

She jumped aside, allowing the fowl avalanche to plunge down the trail.

They are a cross between a common bantam and a polish fowl.

Domestic animals include buffalo, which are used as draft animals, fowl, pigs, goats, cats, and dogs.

Main course was guinea fowl, roast shallots, creamed celeriac, truffled egg, with thyme and pine nut tart.

Guinea fowl stewed with Treviso chicory and Crème Fraîche is a deliciously rich and caramelized dish, using the maroon chicory from Treviso.

Artificial insemination spreads fowl cholera, a major bacterial disease of intensively reared turkeys.

The best way to raise the Black Spanish fowl is to go late in the evening and raise coop and all.

A fowl was killed, as well as a small jug of corn beer drunk.

During the fatal night a fowl house of a nearby farm had been entered and 6 fowl stolen.

Seem to have fallen fowl of " Judge not, lest ye be judged " there haven't we Christopher?

The taking of wild fowl for market was made on an immense scale.

A ' Bantam ' is a type of small domestic fowl.

They were given a dead guinea fowl to eat, feathers and all.

The red jungle fowl is the ancestral species of all domestic chicken breeds.

D Devonshire Traditional Breed Center Chickens - wide range of pure bred large and bantam fowl for beginner and experienced keeper.

Brown the guinea fowl in a frying pan in the butter, then transfer to a roasting tin, breast down.

The only thing that let me down is the fact i can't find a website on it, like the Artemis fowl books.

In real life, the ducks choose a new partner every year, so the nature of the fowl is in contradiction to the symbolism of fidelity.

Many crafters have brought their talents to the table creating a variety of fowl feathers sure to make you ruffle in delight.

A simple peacock plume or spotted fowl feather is a great way to add instant texture and a dose of exotica to your cut and is much more affordable than a full highlight or coloring service.

Of course, ponds and rivers will have fecal matter from fish and fowl in them, which can cut down on some of the enjoyment.

A Paleo diet indicates that the bulk of Amsterdam's recipes attempts to omit dairy and carbohydrate products altogether and focus on high protein elements such as almond flour and quality meats and fowl, a more ancestral approach to eating.