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Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light- colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.

The hide or skin of a calf; or leather made of the skin.

Calf stained dark brown and worked without gilding, often used for theological books.

A heating or warming; calefaction. [Obs.] Blount.

Serving to heat; warming. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

Heating; warming. [Obs.] Holland.

A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus.

The common seal.

A bright brown polished calfskin binding of books, stained with a conventional treelike design.

Departure from the ordinary type; irregularity; monstrosity. "An abnormity . . . like a calf born with two heads." Mrs. Whitney.

not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.

The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; -- formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid.

To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat; to make a senseless noise; to talk inconsiderately. [Low]

Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. "Harsh and blatant tone." R. H. Dana. A monster, which the blatant beast men call. Spenser. Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. W. Irving.

To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf. Then suddenly was heard along the main, To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train. Pope The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will never answer a calf when he bleats. Shak.

A cow or calf; -- familiarly so called. [U. S.]

o called from the loud noise it makes while feeding on the wing, in the evening. -- Bull calf. (a) A stupid fellow. -- Bull mackerel (Zoöl.), the chub mackerel. -- Bull pump (Mining), a direct single-acting pumping engine, in which the steam cylinder is placed above the pump. -- Bull snake (Zoöl.), the pine snake o…

tonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or a sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of wheat or barley. Called also burnt sacrifice. [2 Sam. xxiv. 22.]

To bring forth a calf. "Their cow calveth." Job xxi. 10.