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calf 音標拼音: [k'æf] n. 小牛,小牛皮,腓,小腿 小牛,小牛皮,腓,小腿 calf n 1: young of domestic cattle 2: the muscular back part of the shank [ synonym: { calf}, { sura}] 3: fine leather from the skin of a calf [ synonym: { calf}, { calfskin}] 4: young of various large placental mammals e. g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffaloCalf \ Calf\, n.; pl. { Calves}. [ OE. calf, kelf, AS. cealf; akin to D. kalf, G. kalb, Icel. k[= a] lfr, Sw. kalf, Dan. kalv, Goth. kalb[= o]; cf. Skr. garbha fetus, young, Gr. ?????, Skr grabh to seize, conceive, Ir. colpa, colpach, a calf. [ root] 222.] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light- colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf. [ 1913 Webster] 3. An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt. [ Colloq.] [ 1913 Webster] Some silly, doting, brainless calf. -- Drayton. [ 1913 Webster] 4. A small island near a larger; as, the Calf of Man. [ 1913 Webster] 5. A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface. -- Kane. [ 1913 Webster] 6. [ Cf. Icel. k[= a] lfi.] The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee. [ 1913 Webster] { Calf' s- foot jelly}, jelly made from the feet of calves. The gelatinous matter of the feet is extracted by boiling, and is flavored with sugar, essences, etc. [ 1913 Webster] 147 Moby Thesaurus words for " calf": Brahman, Dry Ice, Indian buffalo, ankle, aurochs, bayonet legs, beef, beef cattle, beeves, berg, birdling, bison, bossy, bovine, bovine animal, bowlegs, buffalo, bull, bullock, carabao, catling, cattle, chick, chickling, chicky, cnemis, colt, cow, critter, cryosphere, cub, dairy cattle, dairy cow, dogie, drumstick, duckling, fawn, firn, fledgling, floe, foal, foreleg, frazil, frozen water, fryer, gamb, gambrel, gigot, glaciation, glacier, glacieret, glaze, glazed frost, gosling, granular snow, ground ice, growler, ham, heifer, hind leg, hock, hornless cow, ice, ice banner, ice barrier, ice belt, ice cave, ice cubes, ice dike, ice field, ice floe, ice foot, ice front, ice island, ice needle, ice pack, ice pinnacle, ice raft, ice sheet, iceberg, icefall, icequake, icicle, jamb, jokul, kid, kine, kit, kitten, knee, lamb, lambkin, leg, leppy, limb, litter, lolly, maverick, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, muley cow, muley head, musk- ox, neat, nest, nestling, neve, nieve penitente, ox, oxen, pack ice, piglet, pigling, podite, polliwog, popliteal space, pullet, pup, puppy, scissor- legs, serac, shank, shelf ice, shin, shoat, sleet, slob, sludge, snow ice, snowberg, steer, stems, stirk, stot, stumps, tadpole, tarsus, trotters, weaner, whelp, wisent, yak, yeanling, yearling, zebuCalf Calves were commonly made use of in sacrifices, and are therefore frequently mentioned in Scripture. The " fatted calf" was regarded as the choicest of animal food; it was frequently also offered as a special sacrifice ( 1 Sam. 28: 24; Amos 6: 4; Luke 15: 23). The words used in Jer. 34: 18, 19, " cut the calf in twain," allude to the custom of dividing a sacrifice into two parts, between which the parties ratifying a covenant passed ( Gen. 15: 9, 10, 17, 18). The sacrifice of the lips, i. e., priase, is called " the calves of our lips" ( Hos. 14: 2, R. V., " as bullocks the offering of our lips." Comp. Heb. 13: 15; Ps. 116: 7; Jer. 33: 11). The golden calf which Aaron made ( Ex. 32: 4) was probably a copy of the god Moloch rather than of the god Apis, the sacred ox or calf of Egypt. The Jews showed all through their history a tendency toward the Babylonian and Canaanitish idolatry rather than toward that of Egypt. Ages after this, Jeroboam, king of Israel, set up two idol calves, one at Dan, and the other at Bethel, that he might thus prevent the ten tribes from resorting to Jerusalem for worship ( 1 Kings 12: 28). These calves continued to be a snare to the people till the time of their captivity. The calf at Dan was carried away in the reign of Pekah by Tiglath- pileser, and that at Bethel ten years later, in the reign of Hoshea, by Shalmaneser ( 2 Kings 15: 29; 17: 33). This sin of Jeroboam is almost always mentioned along with his name ( 2 Kings 15: 28 etc.). |
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