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A young chicken, partridge, grouse, or the like. King. Chapman. Starling the heath poults or black game. R. Jefferise.

A poulterer. [Obs.] Shak.

One who deals in poultry.

ginous substance, to be applied to sores, inflamed parts of the body, etc.; a cataplasm. "Poultice relaxeth the pores." Bacon.

A poultice. [Obs.] W. Temple.

Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.

cucumber-shaped fruit of the size of a walnut, used as a vulnerary, and in liniments and poultices. -- Balsam fir (Bot.), the American coniferous tree, Abies balsamea, from which the useful Canada balsam is derived. -- Balsam of copaiba. See Copaiba. -- Balsam of Mecca, balm of Gilead. -- Balsam of Peru, a reddish…

To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc. [Prov.]

A soft and moist substance applied externally to some part of the body; a poultice. Dunglison.

so chauna, and faithful kamichi. It is often domesticated and is useful in guarding other poultry. See Kamichi.

An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.

iscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal. In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe. King.

The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.

Any external topical application to the body, except ointments and plasters, as a poultice, lotion, etc.

A disease of young poultry and other birds, attended with much gaping. It is caused by a parasitic nematode worm (Syngamus trachealis), in the windpipe, which obstructs the breathing. See Gapeworm.

Forced feeding (as of poultry or infants) by means of a tube passed through the mouth down to the stomach.

The inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry.

e brown crust formed upon a gratinated dish; also, dish itself, as crusts bread, game, or poultry.

use (Tetrao tetrix), which inhabits heats; -- called also black game, black grouse, heath poult, heath fowl, moor fowl. The male is called, heath cock, and blackcock; the female, heath hen, and gray hen. -- Heath hen. (Zoöl.) See Heath grouse (above). -- Heath pea (bot.), a species of bitter vetch (Lathyris macrorhiz…

Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord. Wharton (Law Dict.).