Calf
- n. The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.
- n. 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.
- n. Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.
- n. An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
- n. A small island near a larger; as, the Calf of Man.
- n. A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.