Word Finder - hen

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A female chicken (Gallus gallus), particularly a sexually mature one kept for its eggs.

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A female of other bird species, particularly a sexually mature female fowl.

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A female fish (especially a salmon or trout) or crustacean.

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• henfish

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A woman, particularly

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A hen night.

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An affectionate term of address used to women or girls.

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Don't cry, hen. Everything will be all right.

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A henlike person of either sex.

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The hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), a bivalve shellfish.

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To behave in an overprotective or extremely nurturing manner (towards).

A hen was singing in the back yard.

She handed the hen to him and stood.

He hit the floor on all fours and snapped at the hen as she rolled by.

The hen is much less brightly tinted.

One day the little flecked hen found some grains of wheat.

M (Charter) Thurs; gr 20 Apr 1251, by K Hen III to Edmund de Lacy, king's yeoman.

The hen was very gentle, and made no objection to our investigations.

Menu highlights include bison burgers, beef and lamb club sandwiches, organic pickled hen eggs and specialty cheese platters.

For a moment he gazed down at her, his expression much like the trapped fox in the hen house.

What they got was a mother hen.

Clare Benedict, the highly articulate hen, holds the stage.

They were at the bottom of the naval hierarchy and were tasked with such menial duties as cleaning the pigsties and hen coops.

Looking for Hen Night ideas to give her a great send-off?

The menu includes an assortment of salads, burgers, corned beef sandwiches, pan-roasted game hen and seafood.

The menu includes prime grade steaks, as well as the not-so-common menu offerings of rattlesnake and alligator tail for appetizers and buffalo, elk and game hen for main courses.

To judge their size they are standing next to a modern game bantam hen. in the following picture.

I met the old buzzard running around like a demented hen round Union Station in Toronto.

Eventually she discovers that real Easter eggs come from broody hen, Mavis, rather than the local confectioner.

I often hear this call in the spring, when two or more drakes are pursuing a hen Mallard in flight.

An effective way to do this is to put empty eggshells (from hen eggs used to make omelets) in the cage.

Compounds that produce more than 70% inhibition of neuropathy target esterase give positive results in the hen test.

Later there was a ringtail Hen Harrier at Rye Harbor Farm and a drake goldeneye still on Long Pit.

If they are up use a fine wire hook B100 and try putting in a small hen hackle, keeping the dressing very slim.

The best way to see a hen harrier is to scan the horizon with a pair of binoculars.

In England, breeding hen harriers are restricted to upland heather moorlands.

Could the hen harrier decline on Orkney be due to a shortage of food?

If you are looking for a wedding limousine or a limo for your hen party.

Mrs R ran a livery stable and knew her horses but not a young hen!

This definition yielded a conservative assignment as several protein with distinct lobes (e.g. hen lysozyme and subtilisin) were classed as single-domain proteins.

Along the stream we caught a glimpse of a couple of hen mallards, shepherding a brood of ducklings between them.

The only other scarce migrant seen was a Hen Harrier that flew north over Weston in the afternoon.

You only have your hen night once, why risk it, put in the hands of the Hen night specialists, the Dreamboys.

He was a gentle man, but I seem to remember that he was hen pecked by his wife.

A hen pheasant flew off some ten feet in front of me.

Book a cheeky butler with your Pamper Party and receive a free treatment polecats lessons for your hen party at home.

A ringtail Hen Harrier was also seen quartering at the bridge on the road between Guerriero and Alcarias.

Other raptor sightings included two merlins and a hen harrier.

The dog can stretch his legs and the hen can lay her eggs In my little wooden toolshed in the garden.

Great ideas can be found for days out, adventure holidays, stag and hen weekends and corporate events.

The strip of pubs are ready-made for hen weekenders who want to do the town properly.. .

Katie the hen was taught to play the xylophone by hitting the notes with her beak.

M (Charter) Wed; gr 28 Jun 1251, by K Hen III to Edmund de Lacy, king's yeoman.

Its ready adaptation to confine ment has made it a popular cage-bird on both sides of the Atlantic. The hen is not so good a songster as the cock bird.

The cock bird, when, to use the fenman's expression, he has not "his show on," and the hen at all seasons, offer no very remarkable deviation from ordinary sandpipers; outwardly there is nothing, except the unequal size of the two sexes, to rouse suspicion of any abnormal peculiarity.

Its most characteristic animals and birds are the white-tailed jack-rabbit, pallid vole, sage hen, sharp-tailed grouse and greentailed towhee; the large Columbia ground-squirrel (Spermophflus columbianus) is common in that part of the zone which re west of the Rocky Mountains, but east of the Rockies it is replaced by another species (Cynomys) which closely resembles a small prairie dog.

You may see from a boat, in calm weather, near the sandy eastern shore, where the water is eight or ten feet deep, and also in some other parts of the pond, some circular heaps half a dozen feet in diameter by a foot in height, consisting of small stones less than a hen's egg in size, where all around is bare sand.

There are also pictures and farm sounds to download, such as a squealing pig and a hen laying an egg.

The strip of pubs are ready-made for hen weekenders who want to do the town properly...

M (Charter) Thurs; gr 20 Apr 1251, by K Hen III to Edmund de Lacy, king 's yeoman.

Often young birds acquire the infections from the hen or through navel or yolk sac infections.