Word Finder - calf

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A young cow or bull.

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Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.

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A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals).

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A chunk of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.

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A small island, near a larger island.

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the Calf of Man

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A cabless railroad engine.

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An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.

Little calf does run and leap in field.

The calf could be injured, and she might develop a fear of those caring for her.

The bones are delicately formed, and there is the lack of calf usual in black races.

It might be a big bull calf.

When the sky was imagined as a cow, whc was a calf born anew every morning.

When Aaron himself is connected with the worship of the golden calf, and when to Moses is attributed a brazen serpent which the reforming king Hezekiah was the first to destroy, it is evident that religious conceptions developed in the course of ages.

When a small calf accompanies its mother, it always runs in front and she appears to guide it by holding the point of her horn upon the little animal's rump; and it is perfectly wonderful to note how in all sudden changes of pace, from a trot to a gallop, or vice versa, the same position is always exactly maintained.

Jule looked up from strapping a knife to his calf and accepted the phone.

He obeyed reluctantly, and on the 14th of June 1835 was wounded by a musket bullet in the calf of the leg.

The shoulders are broad, the arms round; the legs are not well developed, the calf is especially small.

More than once someone had purchased frozen colostrum cubes from her to feed a newborn calf.

That cat probably won't bother the adults as long as there are deer around, but it might go after the calf.

It is from a similar standpoint that Aaron is condemned for the manufacture of the golden calf, and a compiler (not the original writer) finds its sequel in the election of the faithful Levites.'

There were teraphim in David's house, and the worship of Yahweh under the image of a calf was the'state religion of the kingdom of Ephraim.

They are exceedingly voracious, a single condor of moderate size having been known, according to Orton, to devour a calf, a sheep and a dog in a single week.

It has been frequently asserted that the image of a calf is kept in a niche, and traces of phallic and gynaecocratic worship have been vaguely suspected; but there is no authentic information in support of either statement.

I did read about cow and calf.

The most popular robe lengths are full, calf and knee length.

But his cry came an instant too late as Shipton plummeted past him, his ice ax swinging in a rip across Dean's calf as he plummeted backward into space, and down to the rocks and churning river below.

The calf, if calf there be, is probably a symbol of the execrable heresy of Darazi, who is frequently styled the calf by his Orthodox opponents.

Calf Close Wood that overlies the shale is a total contrast to the rest of the reserve.

India abstain from the flesh of their domestic animal, the buffalo; but once a year they sacrifice a bull calf, which is eaten in the forest by the adult males.

The service often includes a foot and calf massage with high-quality oils or lotions.

Some services will also include a lower leg massage that can ease tired, aching feet and calf muscles.

She danced away from him, then away from a hand that brushed her calf.

I know that buffalo cow has always been gentle, but if she has a calf, she could get defensive.

Carmen circled Princess around behind the cow and she finally decided to follow the captured calf.

We went down to Mr. Getson's place to deliver a calf.

The female carries her young for fully eleven months, and produces only one calf at a time, which she suckles for a year.

Alarmed at his lengthy absence the people clamoured for "gods" to lead them, and at the instigation of Aaron, they brought their jewelry and made the calf out of it.

For maintaining his seat the horseman should depend upon his thighs and knees only, and not upon the knee and calf; a proper seat should be a mixture of balance and grip; a man riding by balance only is sure to be thrown, while to grip with all one's might during an hour's ride, is to undertake as much exertion as should last for a whole day.

In 1852 he produced "Girls Sewing," "Man Spreading Manure"; 1853, "The Reapers"; 1854, "Church at Greville"; 1855 - the year of the International Exhibition, at which he received a medal of second class - "Peasant Grafting a Tree"; 1857, "The Gleaners"; 1859, "The Angelus," "The Woodcutter and Death"; 1860, "Sheep Shearing"; 1861, "Woman Shearing Sheep," "Woman Feeding Child"; 1862, "Potato Planters," "Winter and the Crows"; 1863, "Man with Hoe," "Woman Carding"; 1864, "Shepherds and Flock, Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields"; 1869, "Knitting Lesson"; 1870, "Buttermaking"; 1871, "November - recollection of Gruchy."

Of course, attacking an adult Texas long horn was a little different than a herd of hornless goats, but the cow was supposed to be carrying a calf.

This will include the use of bovine material in nutrient broths, fetal calf serum and the use of bovine serum albumin.

There was also wholehearted agreement for the establishment of whole chain beef assurance covering dairy calf and suckled calf breeders as well as finishers.

I just think the golden calf gets in the way sometimes.

She was sold with her January 2004 born heifer calf at foot, Chatsworth Vine.

The most widely broadcast report of prophesy and its fulfillment in recent history was the birth of a female white buffalo calf in 1994.

This document describes what causes calf diphtheria, clinical signs and symptoms, diagnosis, available treatments, and prevention and control measures.

The calf nestled against the adult giraffe, trying to shelter underneath her.

A maiden heifer has not yet had a calf.

Suckled calf breeders can make future herd management easier if they continue to build up the number of cows born after July 1996.

The twenty three in calf heifers averaged £ 490 with a top price of £ 720 paid for another Formation daughter.

The herd consisted of around one hundred cows and heifers in milk or in calf followed by eighty well grown young heifers in milk or in calf followed by eighty well grown young heifers.

From calf and shin-length leggings to cropped jackets and mini dresses - short hemlines are where it's at.

Outside, they find a mother hippo in distress, standing guard over her trapped calf.

The songs were about a mother humpback whale who is about to give birth to her first calf.

She joins their Raughton herd at the end of her 2nd lactation and sold in calf to a sexed Principal service.

Keeping your inside heel down, ask with your inside calf for the horse to step under his belly with his inside hind leg.

An estimation of the bulk of the calf muscle was made using a tape measure.