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Calf
·noun The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.
II. Calf ·noun A small island near a larger...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Calf
Calves were commonly made use of in sacrifices, and are therefore frequently mentioned in Scripture....
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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calf
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, or calva
A Norwegian name, also used in the Hebrides, for islets lying off islands, and bea...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Calf
The calf was held in high esteem by the Jews as food. (1 Samuel 28:24; Luke 15:23) The molten calf p...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Whale
·noun Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of whic...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Whale
The Hebrew word tan (plural, tannin) is so rendered in Job 7:12 (A.V.; but R.V., "sea-monster"). It ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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whale
A general term for various marine animals of the order Cetacea, including the most colossal of all a...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Whale
As to the signification of the Hebrew terms tan and tannin, variously rendered in the Authorized Ver...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Divinity calf
·add. ·- Calf stained dark brown and worked without gilding, often used for theological books.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Sea calf
·- The common seal.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Tree calf
·add. ·- A bright brown polished calfskin binding of books, stained with a conventional treelike des...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Golden calf
(Ex. 32:4, 8; Deut. 9:16; Neh. 9:18). This was a molten image of a calf which the idolatrous Israeli...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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bull calf
A great hulkey or clumsy fellow.
See hulkey.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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quy-calf
a cow-calf. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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why-calf
a female, or cow-calf. Cumb.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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sea-calf
A seal, Phoca vitulina.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Right whale
·- The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Sperm whale
·- A very large toothed whale (Physeter macrocephalus), having a head of enormous size. The upper ja...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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black whale
The name by which the right whale of the south seas (Balæna australis) is often known to whalemen.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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fin-whale
See finner.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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gallan whale
The largest whale which visits the Hebrides.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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greenland whale
See right whale.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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right whale
A name applied to the whale with a very large head and no dorsal fin, which yields the whalebone and...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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furrowed whale
See rorqual
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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sperm whale
Otherwise known as the cachalot, Physeter macrocephalus.
A large cetacean, belonging to the divisi...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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whale-bird
A beautiful little bird seen hovering in flocks over the Southern Ocean, in search of the small crus...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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whale-boat
A boat varying from 26 to 56 feet in length, and from 4 to 10 feet beam, sharp at both ends, and adm...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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whale-fisheries
The places at which the capture of whales, or "whale-fishery," is carried on. The principal are the ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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calf-skin fiddle
A drum. To smack calf's skin; to kiss the book in taking an oath. It is held by the St. Giles's casu...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to deacon a calf
is to knock it in the head as soon as it is born.--Connecticut.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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bottle-nosed whale
See bottle-nose
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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hump-backed whale
A species of whalebone whale, the Megaptera longimana, which attains to 45 or 50 feet in length, and...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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japanese whale-boat
A long, open, and sharp rowing-boat of Japan.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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body of divinity bound in black calf
A parson.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose