chicken

n.

1. A barnyard fowl

   chick, hen, rooster, pullet, cock, cockerel, capon, chanticleer, biddy, broiler, fryer, roaster, fowl, poulard, squab chicken, free-range chicken; see also fowl.

   Breeds of chickens include: Black Cochin, Buff Cochin, Partridge Cochin, White Cochin, Game, Indian Game, Houdan, Java, Dorking, Hamburg, Wyandotte, Black Leghorn, White Leghorn, Minorca, Buff Orpington, White Orpington, Rhode Island Red, Barred Plymouth Rock, Barred Rock, Plymouth Rock, White Plymouth Rock, White Rock.

2. Flesh of the chicken].

   Parts of the chicken include: breast, back, thigh, leg, wing, neck, giblets, heart, liver, gizzard, dark meat, white meat, light meat, drumstick*, part that goes over the fence last*;

3. *A coward

   recreant, dastard, craven; see coward.

count one's chickens before they are hatched*