Verb (used without object) : The cow is expected to calve tomorrow. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : The glacier calved an iceberg. From Dictionary.com.
"calved," it split, it detonated, and, having finally loosened itself from its bed, it acquired increased momentum. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Trail] Reference
The placenta stain where she calved you is still there. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Maryland GOP Senate candidate: ‘I do not believe’ Obama ‘was born in the United States.’] Reference
Historically, ice sheets have always calved off icebergs. From Wordnik.com. [Answers to the House Committee on Cross-Validation Statistics « Climate Audit] Reference
The buffaloes calved at 35 months, the cattle at 46 months. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 15] Reference
Beyond them cliffs have calved off slabs the size of houses. From Wordnik.com. [Memory Wall] Reference
Then he ran home and asked his wife whether the cow had calved. From Wordnik.com. [The Pink Fairy Book] Reference
Two of them were but two years old, having calved the same spring. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
The milk also of a cow that has recently calved should not be taken. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
How do we know the earthquake happened after the ice shelf calved away?. From Wordnik.com. [Ayles Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island « Climate Audit] Reference
Inlet had disappeared, owing to miles of the Barrier having calved away. From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912] Reference
That face calved back to the core ice, so it's relatively safe to work under. From Wordnik.com. [Crusader Gold]
Pieces of the ice shelf as large as Delaware have calved off its eastern shore. From Wordnik.com. [Keynote Address To The National Conference On Civil Disobedience] Reference
"Soon even the calved face in front of us is going to be too dangerous to work.". From Wordnik.com. [Crusader Gold]
They were calved November 1st, 1858, and were therefore nearly four years of age. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
The bergs were not the least worn, but looked as if they had calved quite recently. From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912] Reference
Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass. From Wordnik.com. [Jeremiah 14.] Reference
At the eternal dawn line where dim pink light licked, icebergs calved into a red ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Across The Sea Of Suns]
Most of the cows which had not calved before being attacked, lost their calves prematurely. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
The donor should have calved at least 60 days previous to starting on a superovulation schedule. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
Nor can one sell two million head of cattle year if the cows have not calved more than a million. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO PRESS CONFERENCE] Reference
Why ever would he allow Gerrard to take the sacred stones that had calved from his own power core?. From Wordnik.com. [Mercadian Masques]
It glided near the sloping Portage Glacier, which calved chunks of luminous blue ice into the lake. From Wordnik.com. [Alaska plane crash a painful reminder for families of Boggs and Begich] Reference
Dust, under a moon newly calved, twinkles like snow, and the Baltic crawls like its mother-glacier. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
In March 200, the world's largest recorded iceberg (Iceberg B-15), was calved from the Ross Ice Shelf. From Wordnik.com. [Ross Ice Shelf] Reference
Under Gemini are foaled coach-horses, oxen calved, great baubles, and such as can claw both sides are born. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter] Reference
Earlier this month we helped break news of a huge new ice island that calved off Greenland's Petermann Glacier. From Wordnik.com. [Greenland's new ice island slides toward the sea] Reference
Most animals in the Punjab Agricultural University River buffalo herd calved before 35 months, one at 28.3 months.!. From Wordnik.com. [8 Reproduction] Reference
A template should be made for measuring the exact position of the three thimble sockets, which are calved out afterwards. From Wordnik.com. [1. Refractories] Reference
It lists the number of days since cows calved, the number of days since cows were bred and the pregnancy status of each cow. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8] Reference
Natural hazards: ice islands occasionally break away from northern Ellesmere Island; icebergs calved from glaciers in western. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
A cow is said to have been calved to a certain person, the head of a family among the Sabines, of surprising size and beauty. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
How much more nobly employed was John Dryden in manufacturing a brand-new, truculent, loud-voiced, massively-calved, ensiferous. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
I saw her two days after she had calved, at which time she was ruminating, and did not manifest any unusual symptoms of exhaustion. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
A cow's milk no fairy could take away, if a burning coal was conducted across her back and under the belly immediately after she calved. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
How many (or what percentage) have calved now? bonnie. From Wordnik.com. [Comments for Karbon Kounty Moos] Reference
Manhattan has calved from Greenland's Petermann Glacier. From Wordnik.com. [R&D Mag - News] Reference
One large herd has had 25% of its fresh calved cows operated on since Christmas. From Wordnik.com. [FWi - All News] Reference
The last time such a massive ice island formed was in 1962 when Ward Hunt Ice Shelf calved. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
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