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sp., any large edible bird. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air. Gen. i. 26. Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not. Matt. vi. 26. Like a flight of fowl Scattered by winds and high tempestuous gusts. Shak.

A sportsman who pursues wild fowl, or takes or kills for food.

. An Fowler, an English physician who first brought it into use.

A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc.

One who practices or finds sport in batfowling.

A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise.

A large variety of the domestic fowl, originally from Cochin China (Anam).

One of a breed of large-bodied domestic fowls, having five toes, or the hind toe double. There are several strains, as the white, gray, and silver-gray. They are highly esteemed for the table.

See Garefowl.

A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males.

The great auk; also, the razorbill. See Auk. [Written also gairfowl, and gurfel.]

The peacock or peahen; any species of Pavo.

Any bird which habitually frequents the sea, as an auk, gannet, gull, tern, or petrel; also, all such birds, collectively.

The representation or image of a fowl made by fowlers to shoot at. Johnson.

The common sheldrake. [Prov. Eng.]

A cock. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The American scaup duck. [Local, U. S.]

requents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; -- used also collectively.

r place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20.

A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.