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# fowl

«fowl» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **bird** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

bird

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

any bird, including wild birds and flying creatures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fowl/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today fowl usually means a farm bird such as a chicken or duck; here it means any bird of the air.

### examples

- And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. (Torah LEV.7.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fowl/#x1)
- I should like to have that fowl. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fowl/#x2)
- the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven, (Torah DEU.4.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fowl/#x3)

### primary record

fowl

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 79 (Torah 25, tales 54, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 8.9 (Torah alone 58.3); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.161/)
- [the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.129/)
- [And they hear not the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled, and gone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.277/)
- [Upon his carcass all the fowls of the heaven do dwell, and upon his branches are all the beasts of the field;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.809/)
- [The priests shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself, or is torn, whether it be fowl or beast.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1203/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fowl» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fowl/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.