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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 1004 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CALF . (r) (A word See also:

common in various forms to See also:Teutonic See also:languages, cf. See also:German See also:Kalb, and Dutch kalf), the See also:young of the See also:family of See also:Bovidae, and particularly of, the domestic cow, also of the See also:elephant, and of marine mammals, as the See also:whale and See also:seal. The word is applied to a small See also:island See also:close to a larger one, like a calf close to its See also:mother's See also:side, as in the " Calf of See also:Man," and to a See also:mass of See also:ice detached from an See also:iceberg. (2) (Of unknown origin, possibly connected with the See also:Celtic calpa, a See also:leg), the fleshy hinder See also:part of the leg, between the See also:knee and the See also:ankle.

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