Calf

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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

• Calf

  Calves were commonly made use of in sacrifices, and are therefore frequently mentioned in Scripture....

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• calf

  I. , or calva A Norwegian name, also used in the Hebrides, for islets lying off islands, and bea...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Divinity calf

  ·add. ·- Calf stained dark brown and worked without gilding, often used for theological books. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Sea calf

  ·- The common seal. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Tree calf

  ·add. ·- A bright brown polished calfskin binding of books, stained with a conventional treelike des...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• 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

• bull calf

  A great hulkey or clumsy fellow. See hulkey. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• quy-calf

  a cow-calf. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• why-calf

  a female, or cow-calf. Cumb. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• sea-calf

  A seal, Phoca vitulina. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• whale-calf

  The young whale. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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

• to deacon a calf

  is to knock it in the head as soon as it is born.--Connecticut. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• body of divinity bound in black calf

  A parson. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose