A female calf. (In quot. 1634 fig.)
a. 800. Erfurt Gloss., 1155. Baccula, vitula, cucaelf.
a. 1000. Laws Alf., in Thorpe, I. 70 (Bosw.). Gif man of myran folan adrifþ oððe cucealf.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XV. 462. Riȝt as þe cow-calf coueyteth swete mylke.
1523. Fitzherb., Husb., § 66. That he rere two oxe-calues and two cowe-calues.
1634. Massinger, 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.
1779. Hunter, in Phil. Trans., LXIX. 288. One was a bull-calf, and the other a cow-calf.
