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

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

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.

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.

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

can bird (Anhima, or Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in ana…

esp., to insert lardons of bacon or pork in the surface of, before roasting; as, to lard poultry. And larded thighs on loaded altars laid. Dryden.

A duck (Cairina moschata), larger than the common duck, often raised in poultry yards. Called also musk duck. It is native of tropical America, from Mexico to Southern Brazil.

An aviary; a poultry house. Weale.

One who deals in poultry.

Poultry. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Poultry. [Obs.]

Poultry. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A disease in poultry. See Pip.