Note 176 — A CYCLOPÆDIA OF PRACTICAL RECEIPTS, PROCESSES, AND COLLATERAL INFORMATION (continued 15)
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Properly, a ‘chicken’ or ‘young flying animal,’—It is remarkable, as observed by Webster, that a nation should lay aside the proper generic name of flying animals—‘fowl’ (fugel, fugl, Sax.; vogel, Ger., Dut.; fugl, Dan.; fogel, Sw.; from the root of the Lat., fugio, fugo), and substitute the name of the young of those animals as the generic term.