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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A domestic hen.
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Story).] [Footnote 41: Literally a "house-hen;" one of those idiomatic terms of endearment which cannot be reproduced in another language.]
The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country 1878
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