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The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.

hing resembling a drumstick in form, as the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl.

; a vile abode. He . . . lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill. 1. Sam. ii. 8. Dunghill fowl, a domestic fowl of common breed.

person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks. Johnson.

The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game.

Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.

To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep. We fat all creatures else to fat us. Shak.

, a flight of arrows. Swift. Swift flights of angels ministrant. Milton. Like a flight of fowl Scattered winds and tempestuous gusts. Shak.

sons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl. Milton. The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. 2 Macc. xiv. 14.

A dish made of fowls, veal, or other meat of small animals cut into pieces, and stewed in a gravy.

To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls. Dryden.

Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae.

An order of birds, including the common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, quails, and allied forms; -- sometimes called Rasores.

The male game fowl.

yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth. A clapper clapping in a garth To scare the fowl from fruit. Tennyson.

tiny bacterial organisms or their spores, such as Anthrax bacillus and the Micrococcus of fowl cholera, which have been demonstrated to be the cause of certain diseases. See Germ theory (bellow). -- Germ cell (Biol.), the germ, egg, spore, or cell from which the plant or animal arises. At one time a part of the body o…

Wild fowl; game. [Obs.] Addison.

The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.

That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl. And all the way, most like a brutish beast,gorge, that all did him detest. Spenser.

A substance found in great abundance on some coasts or islands frequented by sea fowls, and composed chiefly of their excrement. It is rich in phosphates and ammonia, and is used as a powerful fertilizer.