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CALF

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 1004 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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