rooster

A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.

Their other dish […] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt.

The produce of two hens and a cock, or rooster, as the Yankees term that bird.

A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting.

The more leisured flight of the roosters [sc. starlings] was in contrast to the steady procession of the migrants.

Ground roosters like Northern Harriers may be subject to predation by Great-horned Owls […] but still larger perchers like herons and Ospreys use snags or posts in conspicuous places but are large enough to escape aerial predators.

An informer.

A violent or disorderly person.

A powerful, prideful, or pompous person.

The tenth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.