Crossword clues for calves
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calf \Calf\, n.; pl. Calves. [OE. calf, kelf, AS. cealf; akin to D. kalf, G. kalb, Icel. k[=a]lfr, Sw. kalf, Dan. kalv, Goth. kalb[=o]; cf. Skr. garbha fetus, young, Gr. ?????, Skr grabh to seize, conceive, Ir. colpa, colpach, a calf.
The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale.
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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An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt. [Colloq.]
Some silly, doting, brainless calf.
--Drayton. A small island near a larger; as, the Calf of Man.
A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface.
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[Cf. Icel. k[=a]lfi.] The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.
Calf's-foot jelly, jelly made from the feet of calves. The gelatinous matter of the feet is extracted by boiling, and is flavored with sugar, essences, etc.
Wiktionary
n. (calf English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: calve)
WordNet
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Wikipedia
Calves is a hamlet in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. It is divided between the parishes of Argivai and Beiriz and in the 2001 census it had 138 inhabitants.
Usage examples of "calves".
Oh, they made noises: chirps and barks and rumbles and snores and trumpets, just as Calves will make today.
And then, when the Calves were no longer hungry, she pushed them away.
It was a Bull, then: intent only on rivalry with his fellows and on mating with any receptive Cow—just like all Bulls, who, some Cows would say, are calves all their lives.
They are all calves of the calves of Silverhair, the last of the mammoths of the Old Steppe.
Could it really be that she had somehow slept away the generations, as calf grew to mother and Matriarch and fell away into death, over and over—as her mother's calves grew to a mighty horde that covered this world—while she, daughter of their first ancestor, had stayed young and childless?
Not until I was grown, and had calves of my own, and had become a true Matriarch.
But at last they grew confident, and their calves and cubs and foals grew fat and strong and tall.
Autumn grumbled wearily that it might be better for the nerves of the adults if calves did not speak from the moment they were born.
If there were other calves here, he would wrestle with them and stage little tusk-clashes.
And Icebones spoke of Kilukpuk, and of Kilukpuk's rivalry with her brother, Aglu, and of Kilukpuk's calves, Hyros and Siros, who had squabbled and fought in their jealousy, of Kilukpuk's favorite, Probos, and how Probos had become Matriarch of all the mammoths and their Cousins.
The whole Family was responsible for the care of each calf, and calves and adults knew it on some deep-buried level.
That way many calves could be carried, to be spilled out on the red soil of the Sky Steppe, as if being born.
For that calf, already half-grown, was to be Matriarch to all the new calves who would tumble from the shining seeds to the red soil.
And perhaps his calves, learning from him, would approach the skill and expertise once enjoyed by the mammoths of her Island.
And we were forced to retreat to this hard, rocky land, where our calves fall into the pits of the blood weed.