Chicken: alternatives and connections

Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.

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Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.

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Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.

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Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.

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A name used in calling a hen or chicken.

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One who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels.

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A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table.

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To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate.

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The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls.

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One who fries.

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The female of the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen; the gray hen.

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A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl.

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One who roasts meat.

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The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.

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See Spitchcock.

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The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for supe…

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To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.

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Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.

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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.

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A weak or feeble creature.

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The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.

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White-livered; cowardly.

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Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly.

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Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is be…

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