hen

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

She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.

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

In Tain, north of Inverness, staff detected 11 males and at least seven hens – the highest number there since 2011.

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

As spawning time approaches – autumn or very early winter in most rivers, though in some late-run streams salmon may spawn as late as January or February – the hen's colouration becomes first a matt-pewter and then a drab dark brown-grey. The cock fish, in contrast, begins to gain some brighter colours.

A woman.

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

A woman.

Synonym of mother-hen.

Once he had flared up, "If ever a man was henned, it's me!"

Mammy henned the black workers into placing the trunks beside the girls.

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