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

To cut in slices and pickle, as salmon. [Obs.] For a change, leave calvered salmon and eat sprats. Massinger.

Snapdragon.

A disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck. [Eng.]

shy 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.

A god or goddess; a heathen god. To worship calves, the deities Of Egypt. Milton. The Deity, God, the Supreme Being. This great poet and philosopher [Simonides], the more he contemplated the nature of the Deity, found that he waded but the more out of his depth. Addison.

aith, or from allegiance or duty. Those captive tribes . . . fell off From God to worship calves. Milton.

ally taken from the horns of harts, are now obtained chiefly by planing down the bones of calves. They afford a kind of jelly. Hebert. -- Salt of hartshorn (Chem.), an impure solid carbonate of ammonia, obtained by the destructive distillation of hartshorn, or any kind of bone; volatile salts. Brande & C.-- Spirits of…

self in the fibers.. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes. F. C. Calvert.

of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves. Gray.

To castrate; -- said of male calves.

The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used a rennet for curdling milk. [Scot.]