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ˈcow-calf A female calf. (In quot. 1634 fig.)
a800Erfurt Gloss. 1155 Baccula, vitula, cucaelf. a1000Laws Alf. in Thorpe I. 70 (Bosw.) Gif man of myran folan adrifþ oððe cucealf. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 462 Riȝt as þe cow-calf coueyteth swete mylke. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §66 That he rere two oxe-calues and two cowe-calues. 1634Massinger Very Woman iii. i, Mer. They worship Nothing with so much service as the cow-calves. Paulo. What do you mean by cow-calves? Mer. Why, their women. 1779Hunter in Phil. Trans. LXIX. 288 One was a bull-calf, and the other a cow-calf. |