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Kipskin :: Kipskin (n.) Leather prepared from the skin of young or small cattle, intermediate in grade between calfskin and cowhide..

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..

Slink :: Slink (v. t.) To cast prematurely; -- said of female beasts; as, a cow that slinks her calf..

Scink :: Scink (n.) A slunk calf.

Shammy :: Shammy (n.) A soft, pliant leather, prepared originally from the skin of the chamois, but now made also from the skin of the sheep, goat, kid, deer, and calf. See Shamoying..

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..

Jelly :: "Jelly (n.) The juice of fruits or meats boiled with sugar to an elastic consistence; as, currant jelly; calf's-foot jelly..

Excalfactive :: Excalfactive (a.) Serving to heat; warming.

Mugget :: Mugget (n.) The small entrails of a calf or a hog.

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..

"""carbone " :: Carbone (v. t.) To broil. [Obs.] We had a calf's head carboned..

Veal :: Veal (n.) The flesh of a calf when killed and used for food.

Vell :: Vell (n.) The salted stomach of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag..

Parchment :: Parchment (n.) The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum..

Mooncalf :: Mooncalf (n.) A dolt; a stupid fellow.

Rennin :: Rennin (n.) A milk-clotting enzyme obtained from the true stomach (abomasum) of a suckling calf. Mol. wt. about 31,000. Also called chymosin, rennase, and abomasal enzyme..

Slink :: Slink (a.) Produced prematurely; as, a slink calf..

Free-martin :: Free-martin (n.) An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male..

Allantoin :: Allantoin (n.) A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; -- formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid..

Suckle :: Sucking (a.) Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf..

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