0 an adult female chicken, often kept for its eggs
1 a woman who is going to get married soon, when she is at a hen party (= a party with her women friends to celebrate this)
Are you not feeling too good, hen?
2 an adult female chicken that is often kept for its eggs, or the female of any bird
The transfer of endotoxin induced immunity from hens to poults.
Simulation of the thermal denaturation of hen egg white lysozyme : trapping the molten globule state.
He also bought pedigreed hens and hogs, which are more difficult to raise but produce bigger eggs and better meat than common varieties.
The humansized domestic hen clowns hopped and pecked the audience as they entered the tent.
From each line two hens and two roosters were reciprocally crossed.
Why else would they ask the foxes to inspect the hen house?
The size of my loft for the hens would be 10ft x 8ft, fitted with aviary with inch half battens.
The use of the hen in the figure is not incidental.
