Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WA-TER-HEN
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WA-TER-HEN, n. [water and hen.]
A water fowl of the genus Fulica, the gallinula or moorhen; also, a species of Rallus, the soree, inhabiting Virginia and Carolina. – Cyc.
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