Usually means: Young bovine, especially a cow.
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General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. calf: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. calf, calf: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. calf, calf: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. calf: Collins English Dictionary
  5. calf: Vocabulary.com
  6. Calf, calf: Wordnik
  7. calf: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Calf, Calf: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. calf: Wiktionary
  10. calf: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. calf: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. calf: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Calf, calf: Dictionary.com
  14. calf: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. calf: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Calf (anatomy), Calf (animal), Calf (disambiguation), Calf (leg), Calf, The Calf: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Calf: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. calf: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. calf: Rhymezone
  20. calf: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. calf: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. calf: Free Dictionary
  23. calf: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. calf: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. calf: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. calf: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. calf: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Calf: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. calf: Medical dictionary
  5. Calf: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. CALF: Acronym Finder
  3. calf: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Calf: Easton Bible
  2. Calf: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. calf: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Calf (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. calf, calf, calf: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. C.A.L.F: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See calflike as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A young cow or bull.
noun:  Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
noun:  A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals).
noun:  A chunk of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
noun:  A small island, near a larger island.
noun:  A cabless railroad engine.
noun:  (informal, dated) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
noun:  (anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.
noun:  The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.

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