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hind-calf
[OE. hindcealf = OHG. hintcalb, MHG. hintkalp, MDu. hindencalf, hindecalf (Kilian): see hind n.1 and calf.]
The young of a hind; a fawn.
a900Kent. Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 58/38 Cerua carissima et gratissimus hinnulus, eala ðu liofeste hind and ᵹecwemest hindcealf. c1000ælfric Gloss. ibid. 119/17 Hinnulus, hindcealf. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xxiii. (1495) 781 Capriolus is lyke to an Enulus an hynde calfe. 1551Turner Herbal i. B ij a. 1598J. Manwood Lawes Forest iv. §5 (1615) 42/1 The first yere, you shal cal him [the Hart] a Hind calfe or a calfe. 1601Holland Pliny II. 321 The rennet of a Fawne or Hind-calfe. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. ii. v. 324. 1891 C. Wise Rockingham Cast. 152. |