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calves
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a cow calves (= produces a calf, a young cow ) ▪ At this time of year the cows are calving.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (calf English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: calve )
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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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.