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Calf

[kɑːf] or [kæf]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) young of domestic cattle.

(noun.) young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo.

(noun.) the muscular back part of the shank.

(noun.) fine leather from the skin of a calf.

凯茜錄入--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

(n.) The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.

編輯:奥尔加

解釋/意思:

as marine mammals: calf-skin leather bookbinding in such: a stupid or a cowardly person:—pl. Calvesns. Calf′-love an attachment between a boy and girl; Calf's′-foot Calves'-foot the foot of the calf used in making a palatable jelly; Calf′-skin the skin of the calf making a good leather for bookbinding and shoes.—Divinity calf a dark-brown calf bookbinding with blind stamping and without gilding—common in the binding of theological books; Golden calf the idol set up by Aaron during the absence of Moses on Sinai or those erected by Jeroboam at Bethel and Dan: worship of Mammon or wealth; Half-calf a bookbinding in which the back and corners are in calf-skin; Mottled calf a light coloured bookbinding decorated by the sprinkling of acid in drops; Smooth calf a binding in plain or undecorated calf leather.—The calves of our lips (Hosea xiv. 2) an offering of praise (the Septuagint reads 'The fruit of our lips').—Tree calf a bright brown calf bookbinding stained by acids with a pattern resembling the trunk and branches of a tree.

with a thin poor calf.

錄入:昆西

例句/造句/用法:

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