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Calve   Listen
verb
Calve  v. i.  (past & past part. calved; pres. part. calving)  
1.
To bring forth a calf. "Their cow calveth."
2.
To bring forth young; to produce offspring. "Canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?" "The grassy clods now calved."
3.
(Phys. Geog.) To throw off fragments which become icebergs; said of a glacier.





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"Calve" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lhude sing Cuccu, Groweth seed and bloweth mead and springth the wde nu, Sing Cuccu, Awe bleteth after lomb, lhouth after calve cu, Bulluc sterteth, Bucke verteth, murie sing cuccu, Cuccu, Cuccu, Wel singes thu cuccu, ne swik ...
— Shakespeare and Music - With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries • Edward W. Naylor
... ejaculated, with a laugh and giving me a whack on the shoulders that nearly toppled me over into the fire-place. "Don't be a rabbit. The thing will be as easy as cutting calve's-foot ...
— R. Holmes & Co. • John Kendrick Bangs
... good harvest, plenty of cattle, and the like, and are expressed in a tone of childlike familiarity that sounds strange in our ears. They make no attempt to veil their desires with mystic solemnity, but ask, in simple, straightforward fashion, that God should make the barley ripen and the cow calve successfully, that He should prevent their horses from being stolen, and that he should help them to gain ...
— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace
... it can prevent the inmates from having chilblains on their heels in winter; that it can cure the cattle of many maladies; that if a piece of it be steeped in the water which cows drink it helps them to calve; and lastly that if the ashes of the log be strewn on the fields it can save the wheat ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer


Words linked to "Calve" :   bear, have young, give birth, divide, break up, have, separate


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