hen
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- : a female chicken: Our hens only recently started laying, but these fresh eggs were worth the wait!
- : the female of any bird, especially a gallinaceous bird: The mallard drakes are splendidly colorful while the hens are camouflaged in drab plumage.
- : the female of certain marine creatures, including lobsters and salmon: I prefer a hen when making lobster bisque, as the dark red roe enhances both flavor and color.
- : Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a usually middle-aged or older woman, especially one who is considered to be petty or gossipy: Let’s get out of here and leave the hens to their blather.
- : Informal. a female in attendance at a hen party: The incident at the restaurant occurred hours after our party was over and we’d all gone home, but all of us hens were brought in for questioning the next morning.
- : British and Australian Informal. the bride-to-be at a bachelorette party: A toast to Vera, the beautiful hen, who’s flying our coop in less than a fortnight!
- : Scots Informal. an affectionate or familiar term of address to a girl or woman: That’s lovely, hen, thank you.
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All the eggs produced by hens sexed with this technology are sold under the Respeggt brand, free from chick culling.
That is not the case with egg-laying hens, which have been bred to put all their energy toward laying.
In chickens, the hen controls whether the resulting chick is male or female.
File this under, “Sure, I’ll watch your hens,” said the fox.
You can look at the number of hens laying eggs in this country.
He even claims that hen partridges conceive just by smelling the scent of males.
“[W]hen the going got tough, his economic team picked Wall Street,” Warren said.
He eventually brings his wife and children over, and later he manages a hen and rabbit farm.
He described her then as “a mother hen who took care of everyone.”
“[W]hen a novelist finds an audience, even a small one … the relation is based on recognition, not misunderstanding,” he writes.
Out of the darkening sky rang the twanging call of a night-hawk, and the cluck of a dozing hen sounded from the foliage overhead.
What can be prettier than a brood of chickens with a good motherly hen, like the one in this picture!
“Well, Hen knows how to kill snakes, but maybe she is a poor judge of character,” laughed Amy.