calf's-footn.
1. literal. The foot of a calf; hence, calf's-foot jelly.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > beef > [noun] > veal > cuts or parts
calf's-foot1620
veal cutlet1728
windpipe sweetbreada1756
noix1845
schnitzel1854
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > jelly > [noun] > meat jelly
meat jelly1381
cow heel1655
calf's-foot jelly1775
aspic1789
shank-jelly1824
1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 70 The vse of them (especially of Calues feete) is very profitable in consumptions.
1775 Nourse in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 66 438 I now allowed him chicken broth..calves-feet jelly.
1785 W. Scott in Med. Communications 2 85 I procured some calf's foot jelly.
1879 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 28 June What purported to be mock-turtle soup..with pieces of calves-foot or cow-heel in it.
2. Herbalism. The Cuckoo-pint or Wake-robin ( Arum maculatum): see arum n. [So French pied-de-veau.]
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Araceae (wake-robin and allies) > [noun]
dragonsc1000
cuckoo-pintlea1400
yekestersea1400
aaron?c1425
calf's-footc1450
cuckoo-spitc1450
rampa1500
priest's hood1526
wake-robin1530
green dragon1538
arum1551
cuckoo-pint1551
dragonwort1565
priest's pintle1578
tarragon1591
starch root1596
friar's cowl1597
friar's-hood1597
starchwort1597
dragon serpentine1598
dragon's-herb1600
small dragonwort1674
dumb cane1696
skunk weed1735
polecat weed1743
lords and ladies1755
mucka-mucka1769
skunk cabbage1778
bloody man's finger1787
green dragon1789
swamp-cabbage1792
priest in the pulpit1837
orontiad1846
arad1853
cows and calves1853
bulls and cows1863
skunk cabbage1869
aroid1876
Adam and Eve1877
stallion1878
cunjevoi1889
c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 588 Jarus, Cokkupyntel et Calvysfote.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. vii. 322 Calfes foote or Cockowpynt.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 38 The herbe Arum, commonly called in English Wake-Robbin or Calues-foot.
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