Results

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

Synonyms:

brooder, jenny, chick, bird of passage, ewe, game bird, pullet, cock, dam, fledgling, doe, bird of prey, mother, chicken, biddy, raptor, nestling, bitch, cow, duck, setting hen, dickey, girl, bird, fowl, hind

Usage examples:

• Give a hen to the widder Gowdey for Christmas. - "Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife", Marietta Holley.
• " Yes," replied the hen, " come, we will have some pleasure together." - "Household Tales by Brothers Grimm", Grimm Brothers.
• But Jack put the brown hen down before her, and told her how he had been in the Giant's castle, and all his adventures. - "The Red Fairy Book", Various.