(rare) A bottle of wine in the port wine trade containing 2.25 liters of fluid, three times the volume of a standard bottle. / (Scotland) A hen with a tuft of feathers on her head.

(literally) A female chicken who bears eggs or chicks. / (idiomatic) An outspoken and overprotective woman or person dealing with others' affairs.

Alternative form of mother-hen

(idiomatic) anything not naturally occurring

plural of hen party

A party held for a woman who is about to be married, normally attended only by female friends and relatives.

plural of hen night

Some species of bird in the genus Amaurornis in the family Rallidae.

Foolish; birdbrained.

(Australia, New Zealand) A hen night.