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Definition of Calfless
1. having a thin leg [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calfless
Literary usage of Calfless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"A calfless great man —and it is ... often great men are calfless — will look with
envy upon the American who can clothe his legs in the decorous obscurity ..."
2. A Zulu-English Dictionary with Notes on Pronunciation, a Revised Orthography by Alfred T. Bryant (1905)
"Leg of a bird or fowl, also of a buck (from their seeming to stand on sticks or
points); might be applied to the thin calfless leg of a man ..."
3. Personal Reminiscences, 1840-1890: Including Some Not Hitherto Published of by Lucius Eugene Chittenden (1893)
"... to appreciate a joke, had in a recent opinion defined a " heifer " as a "
calfless bovine two years old." This opinion we considered misleading. ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1888)
"His foes, on the other hand, are exhibited with disproportionally big hands,
fleeing on calfless legs stuck like broom-handles into the middle of their feet ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1891)
"... to make them calfless, " that they may run better"; while the Puris women, in
South America, develop the calf excessively by bandages above and below, ..."
6. Works by Washington Irving (1896)
"... choleric reeve of Norfolk, bestriding his good gray stot, with close-shaven
beard, his hair cropped round his ears, long, lean calfless legs ..."
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