Definition of calf

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Calf (n.) Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf..

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Surance :: Sural (a.) Of or pertaining to the calf of the leg; as, the sural arteries..
Vituline :: Vituline (a.) Of or pertaining to a calf or veal.
"""carbone " :: Carbone (v. t.) To broil. [Obs.] We had a calf's head carboned..
Free-martin :: Free-martin (n.) An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male..
Mugget :: Mugget (n.) The small entrails of a calf or a hog.
Rennet :: Rennet (v.) The inner, or mucous, membrane of the fourth stomach of the calf, or other young ruminant; also, an infusion or preparation of it, used for coagulating milk..
Calf :: Calf (n.) Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf..
Veal :: Veal (n.) The flesh of a calf when killed and used for food.
Scink :: Scink (n.) A slunk calf.
Fatling :: Fatling (n.) A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food..
Knuckle :: Knuckle (n.) The kneejoint, or middle joint, of either leg of a quadruped, especially of a calf; -- formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being..
Mooncalf :: Mooncalf (n.) A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus..
Phylactery :: Phylactery (n.) A small square box, made either of parchment or of black calfskin, containing slips of parchment or vellum on which are written the scriptural passages Exodus xiii. 2-10, and 11-17, Deut. vi. 4-9, 13-22. They are worn by Jews on the head and left arm, on week-day mornings, during the time of prayer..
Excalfactory :: Excalfactory (a.) Heating; warming.
Calf :: Calf (n.) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
Bleat :: Bleat (v. i.) To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf..
Calf :: Calf (n.) A small island near a larger; as, the Calf of Man..
Accession :: Accession (n.) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf..
Sea Calf :: Sea calf () The common seal.
Sweetbread :: Sweetbread (n.) Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus..
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