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• Hen

  ·noun The female of the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; ...

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• Hen

  grace; quiet; rest ...

  Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

• Hen

  Common in later times among the Jews in Palestine (Matt. 23:37; Luke 13:34). It is noticeable that t...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• hen

  A woman. A cock and hen club; a club composed of men and women. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Hen

  The hen is nowhere noticed in the Bible except in (Matthew 23:37; Luke 13:34) That a bird so common ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Daker hen

  ·- The corncrake or land rail. ...

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• Dandy-hen

  ·noun ·f A bantam fowl. ...

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• Hen-hearted

  ·adj Cowardly; timid; chicken-hearted. ...

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• Sea hen

  ·- the common guillemot; — applied also to various other sea birds. ...

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• Water hen

  ·- Any gallinule. II. Water hen ·- The common American coot. ...

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• hen-hearted

  Cowardly. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hen house

  A house where the woman rules; called also a SHE HOUSE, and HEN FRIGATE: the latter a sea phrase, or...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• fat-hen

  n. a kind of wild spinach.In England the name is applied to various plants of thickfoliage. 1847. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• jungle-hen

  n. name given to a mound-buildingbird, Megapodius tumulus, Gould. See also Megapode. The Indian Jun...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• mallee-hen

  n. Same as mallee-bird (q.v.). 1890. `Victorian Statutes-Game Act, Third Schedule': [Close Season...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• maori-hen

  n. Same as Weka (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• moor-hen

  n. common English bird-name( Gallinula). The Australian species are – – the Black, Gallinula tenebr...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• native-hen

  n. name applied to various speciesof the genus Tribonyx (q.v.). The Australian speciesare – – Tribo...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• scrub-hen

  i.q. scrub-fowl. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• swamp-hen

  n. an Australasian bird, Porphyrio melanonotus, Temm. (often incorrectlyshortened to Melanotus). Ca...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• hen-hawk

  (Falco lineatus.) The popular name of the red-shouldered hawk of naturalists. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• mud-hen

  The common name of the Virginia Rail ornithologists. It inhabits small streams and marshes. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• prairie-hen

  The pinnated grouse of ornithologists. It is also called Heath-hen and Grouse in some parts of the c...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• clocking hen

  a hen desirous of sitting to hatch her eggs. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• clucking hen

  a hen desirous of sitting to hatch her eggs. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• hen-bawks

  a hen-roost, from the bawks of which it consists. See BAWKS. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• cape-hen

  See molly-mawk. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hen-frigate

  A ship wherein the captain's wife interfered in the duty or regulations. ...

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• sea-hen

  A name of the fish Trigla lyra, or crooner (which see). ...

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• Blue Hen State

  ·add. ·- The State of Delaware; — a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• moon-eyed hen

  A squinting wench. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• brood-hen star

  The cluster of the Pleiades. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Hen and Chickens Court

  North out of Fleet Street at No. 183, east of St. Dunstan's church, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.O....

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• as fat as a hen in the forehead

  A saying of a meagre person. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose