A domesticated gallinaceous bird (Gallus gallus domesticus) used as a source of eggs and meat, typically having a fairly large, stout body, a…

A young domestic chicken, esp. one that is newly hatched.

The prevailing sense: a ‘barn-door fowl’, a domestic cock or hen; a bird of the genus Gallus. In the U.S. applied also to ‘a domestic duck or…

A chicken, a fowl. Also dialect, a louse.

Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern). A chicken. Cf. chook, n.

a domestic fowl; (in plural) poultry.

Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern). A chicken. Also more generally: any bird. More fully chuckie bird, chookie birdie.

An ordinary domestic fowl, as opposed to a gamecock bred for fighting; (hence) a bird lacking in qualities regarded as desirable in a fighting cock…

Designating an ordinary, common, domestic cock or hen, as distinguished from game birds bred for fighting or (later) any improved breed, as dunghill…

(a) an East Indian bird of the genus Gallus, esp. G. ferrugineus (G. bankiva); (b) a mound-bird of Australia, as Megapodius timulus.

A domestic fowl, a chicken.

A chicken.