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Sentence Examples Seated calf raises specifically target the soleus, which runs under the gastrocnemius and is actually the lower leg's largest muscle. There was a gash in his left calf where a rock or something and cut through his pants and into his leg and a huge lump on the back of his head. Part of the Atlantic Stampede's appeal during its 14 years of bull riding and calf roping is its focus on entertainment. The pump fills the sleeves with air and gently squeezes the leg, squeezing from ankle to calf to thigh. He won the silver medal at the International Dairy Event, Stoneleigh Park, in 1974 for his calf and lamb resuscitator. This dynamic move enhances ankle and calf flexibility and increases the strength of the deeper calf muscle, the soleus. Summer calving in southern and southeastern herds is questionable because of the potential for reduced calf performance. Very often those calved heifers fail to go back in calf easily and become late calvers the following season. It was about as thick as a man's calf and had a universal joint on each end. Apart from herding, corralling, separating, branding and roping, I won a calf first go and the rawhide lasso nearly ripped my hands off. The bullet entered his left thigh, skimmed past the kneecap and came out the upper calf on the opposite side of the leg. The goal of tie-down roping is for the roper, or contestant, to lasso the calf while riding a horse. We had eight ropers out the first day and some of them had never thrown a rope in an arena, and there wasn't a calf missed. He was also battling injury, with his calf strapped up, but he had the advantage of a surface that played to his strengths. He never showed much interest in the number of departmental female elephants around and never sired a calf. No one really knows what causes these sudden, painful muscle spasms in the calf, the thigh or the arch of the foot. A calf will hump up onto the back of the sleeping mother, breach onto her, cover her blowhole with his tail. As a result of the recent turnaround in beef market share, feeder calf producers are smiling. Under NO circumstances should white mid calf socks or tube socks be worn with short pants. With a shriek he doubled over, clutching at his calf, and rolled off his horse into the road. Show More Sentences Decker pulled up the trouser of his left leg and began to wrap the dressing around his calf and shin. Elevating the heels only serves to shorten the calf muscles in the long term and will alter the body's posture and mechanics. From shooties that hit right at the ankle to short boots that don't quite reach the calf, there's a bootie in the house for everybody's style. Bound in tree calf with raised bands, leather spine label and gold decorations. The first in line, Life of Captain Cook was bound in full tree calf to match the rest of the set. Contemporary and uniform half tree calf, gold-tooled spines with red and black labels, tree-marbled sides, sprinkled edges. The riot police moved in and struck quick, hard blows with their batons, mainly at people's calf areas. Preferably, the selected cow is a cow, which recently has given birth to a calf, and thus produces beestings. George Tifi looks at a Minke whale calf that beached on Tuesday and was buried at Nyara yesterday. Jogging works both aspects of the calf muscle on the push-off and hammers the tibialis anterior as the leg decelerates at landing. He went still, the old urge taking over, homing in on the sound like a cow hearing the bawl of her calf. This leads to calf muscles contracting, making it very difficult to stand with your feet flat, even when barefoot. I do standing calf raises for gastrocnemius and seated calf raises for soleus muscles. Segmental pressures are obtained bilaterally on the lower extremities at the thigh, above the knee, the calf, and the ankle. The Achilles tendon is the thick, strong tendon that joins the calf muscles to the heel bone. The veins in the deep system drain the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles of the calf. Using this technique, the surgeon makes an incision in the back of the knee and retracts the calf muscle. In the legs, the normal action of the calf muscles helps pump the blood back to the heart, usually without difficulty. That's partly because you've lost flexibility in the calf and the soleus muscle, which is near the ankle. Each time the calf and thigh muscles contract when walking, veins deep inside the leg are squeezed. Show More Sentences It cuts the leg below the calf, and all muscle bellies except those of gastrocnemius are present. Well actually it's about just letting the calf muscles and the toes be as they are. Then, begin stretching the plantar fascia and the Achilles tendon, which attaches the calf muscles to the heel bone. From the ankle, the saphenous vein ascends the calf along the border of the gastrocnemius muscle. In patients with venous insufficiency damage occurs to the veins or calf muscle pump, resulting in high venous pressures in the deep veins. The most crippling injuries were to Simon's right leg, mangled beyond recognition below the knee, the entire calf musculature torn off. We didn't have any problems getting the heifers in calf, but neither were there any with the Holsteins. Roland has a wonderful selection of cows and calves and cows in calf and there are enquiries from far and wide. Farmers end up wintering cattle that are not in calf and it's less efficient. About 15 top cows will be for sale plus in calf heifers and maiden heifers. Their incorporation into these pedigree herds as suckler dams or resale as in calf cows offers a very lucrative second-hand value. Dry cows and in calf heifers can easily be managed inside as maintenance requirements are relatively low and can easily be met. Mr Robinson, 36, has a second holding in Kendal and made a licensed movement on welfare grounds of cows in calf from Langcliffe nine days ago. He favours New Zealand Friesians because, in his opinion, the breed is robust, holds its condition and, above all, gets back in calf easily. A killer whale calf learned the trick of luring gulls to the surface of the water with fish. The female stays close to the coast in an effort to protect the calf from transient killer whales. The lice move from mother to calf and among whales in close contact with each other. The 2000 birth of a healthy calf to a rhino called Emi at the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio was the first successful captive delivery in 112 years. Seconds later, at the edge of visibility, a sperm whale and her calf appeared. He also received second place for his heifer in calf and second for his calf bull. Show More Sentences These standards promote optimal calf health, performance, well-being, and marketability of the resulting product. Lengthening the tendon or an attached calf muscle reduces the pressure on the ball of the foot to help prevent and treat diabetic foot ulcers. The major impact of calf scours is the economic loss to the ranch operation. Where there has previously been an outbreak of scour on a farm, cows may be vaccinated to help boost immunity of the calf. Almost immediately, his calf swelled up, and the skin covering it grew scorching hot. The books and manuscripts were written on vellum, a preparation of calf, goat and sheep skins. Her extremities revealed no clubbing, cyanosis, edema, and no calf or thigh tenderness. The young soft calf is a likely candidate for respiratory disease if mismanaged. The clot itself causes stasis of blood, discomfort and pain in the leg and calf and swelling at the ankles. Some of today's Valentine's Day messages may reflect only calf love or puppy love but these cannot be discarded as silly. It was the kind of desperate, headlong, adolescent calf love that he should have experienced years ago and got over. The usual source is the lining of the fourth stomach of a calf, though other young animals may be used. If the calf is too weak to suckle directly, take milk from the cow and feed it using a clean bottle and teat, or by stomach tube. The other week I had a dream, I was with my ex-girlfriend and we were being butted by a calf. They saw professional rodeo cowboys ride bucking broncos and bulls, saddling wild horses, calf roping and watched whilst cowgirls barrel raced. A common sprain injury is a torn Achilles tendon, which connects the calf muscles to the heel. Ankle and ligament damage is also common, as well as Achilles tendon rupture and calf tendon tears. Poor training routines can contribute to soft tissue injuries such as those to Achilles tendons, hamstrings and calf and adductor muscles. Lower your heels at a slow to moderate speed until you feel a strong stretch in your Achilles tendons and calf muscles. Think of a runner with tight calf muscles and a tight Achilles tendon running up a hill. Show More Sentences A plain film of the right calf was negative for fracture, dislocation or radiopaque foreign bodies. David stood up straight, groaning for a moment at the strain put on his calf muscles. This should not be a reason for not having cows in calf because there are several more justifiable reasons. The calf must have been delivered through the birth canal and then both it and the afterbirth were abducted. A bull moose, with small, velveted antlers in spring, could do little more to defend a calf from a grizzly than could a cow. A calf sauntered up behind the eminent historian and butted him, taking him unawares. The sonographic calf evaluation shows an echogenic tubular structure with acoustic shadowing in a focal area of pain. They have said they can't rule out the possibility that mad cow disease can be transmitted from mother to calf. Today Jim came in wearing his traditional red t-shirt and a pair of calf length khaki shorts. The man said he did not want any trouble but then pointed an air pistol at the ground and fired it, hitting the victim in the left calf. Nevertheless, when he returned to civilian life, Nashville didn't exactly kill the fatted calf for him. Her mother, Alice, is delighted to see her, but her father, Hank, is not about to kill the fatted calf. The nurturing role of mothers is represented and celebrated as a mother cow cares for her newborn calf. Perhaps for the same reasons, however, the American media has done everything but kill the fatted calf. But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him. On one hand, it meant that Mother would kill the fatted calf and we would eat exceptionally well. Father killed the fatted calf that we were saving in honor of someone who deserved it, not that son of his. Briefly, subjects stood with their heel, calf, buttocks, back, and head fixed with a strap against a vertical backboard. The tendon is attached to the back of the heel and is pulled by two muscles in the calf. On Sunday last, a cow of the Durham breed calved, along with a remarkably fine bull calf, which is still alive, a very curious lusus naturae. Show More Sentences Leonard Tinkler showed them sheds containing three dead animals, including a decomposing cow whose calf was still alive in the same pen. That may change soon thanks to a newborn calf born healthy to the first cow cloned from a beef carcass. According to Iliev, Pazhin, who plays in Ukraine, has a torn ankle tendon, while Zagorich has a lacerated calf muscle. The life-long farmer was attempting to lift a newborn calf when the cow's hoof struck him. As it is sometimes difficult to rear young calves it is a good thing to keep them clean and dry, whitewashing the calf hulls two or three times during the winter. At her side was her calf, which turned and squinted at us through baby eyes. He remembers being able to wrap his thumb and middle finger around her calf. He commanded the brigade in the 2008 war with Russia that suffered the most casualties and he himself was shot in the calf. Her dour father is clad in plaid shorts and black dress socks pulled up snugly along the calf. The following year she was favourite to take world championships gold in Athens but left the track in tears after suffering a ruptured Achilles tendon and a torn calf muscle. After slapping Harry on the ear, I keeked out of the flap expecting to see a furious young girl in the truck's wake, but only spotted a calf looking over a hedge. A good, well-organised calf rearing system should be a priority for any dairy farmer, and this does not mean that you go and put up an expensive calf house. They haven't exactly killed the fatted calf but they have been buying in an awful lot of Guinness for the return of their prodigal son on Saturday. The dimmed lights and sizeable golden calf on the center of the conference table should tip you off. Mickey Joseph slid out of bounds and lacerated his calf muscle. I had earlier posted a picture of a stuffed calf hanging from a house front in Mylapore, and speculated that it was meant to keep the cow lactating. Cow and calf producers typically choose to commence calving and breeding at times of the year when weather is least stressful and forage conditions are optimal. Since muscle mass is appendicular, it seems reasonable to propose that the addition of a calf or upper leg girth would have strengthened the prediction equation. The breeding female and male will differ appositely in some traits, female legs require a more slender appearance than the strong bone required for a bull calf. A large dugong and calf had just surfaced for air and I turned round in time to watch their rounded torsos arc in unison and with a swirl of their tails, they disappeared. Show More Sentences The calf must have survived by living off straw in the barn. This allowed women to enter rodeo contests on an ad-hoc basis and to compete in a limited number of traditional events, such as calf roping and cutting. Independence may well be the modern day golden calf to which far too many of us bow down and worship. Father Costantino spoke in his sermon of the need to shun false idols such as the golden calf of scripture. The best medium to preserve one's writings, however, is vellum, which is made from calf skin exposed to lime which is then worked by tanners into a usable writing skin. A calf, like a human child, has baby teeth that loosen and fall out. We always find that feeding a lot of dairy ration caused scour in the calf, whereas if the ration is used as part of the daily diet there is no problem. Neither actual mating of blue whales nor birth of a calf have been observed in modern times, and the breeding grounds for some populations are still unknown. Killing a large whale is too dangerous for the calf, but as a spectator, it picks up lethal techniques like ramming, drowning, and biting the prey. Like the elephant calf in Africa that decided to play football with a crocodile, little realising the danger till the mother elephant shooed it away. The whale calf is thought to have become separated from its mother in the lower Thames, where the sighting of another, larger bottlenose whale was reported. They observed an orphaned elephant calf being rejected from its herd. He put no blame on the elephant, saying that the young female was simply trying to defend its territory, along with another elephant with a calf nearby. Made from moose leather with rawhide bindings crisscrossing around the calf they looked like something Shackleton would have improvised adrift on the ice-floes. The overall beef champion and also Champion of Champions at Saturday's East Mainland Show was a two-year-old heifer in calf, owned by John W. Hepburn of Burnside, Tankerness. So it is natural that cows will be difficult to get in calf if they are losing body condition before insemination and now the scientists have proof that this is so. In the beef lines Limousins were headed by the in calf heifer Brontemoor Spice Girl, owned by Steve Priestley, owner of a 100-cow breeding herd at Denholme, near Bradford. As these heifers do not have to be in calf, there is bound to be a drop in the number of quality beef suckler calves produced and a reduction in the supply of our best beef. The champion in the cattle section at Tuesday's Shapinsay show was a black heifer in calf named Tilly, owned by R. J. Johnston of Hewan, Shapinsay. Obesity that prevents ambulation exacerbates venous hypertension because the calf muscle is not working to keep the veins pumping the blood out of the leg. Show More Sentences Hanes No Hose allows femme fatales to go barelegged in sexy, strappy open-toe shoes while offering girdle-like control to just above the knee or below the lower calf. Our preference is to rest a knee and calf against the console while modulating the throttle and brake over obstacles, but the shift lever was in the way. A nice copy in full tree calf with elaborately gilt backstrip. There were no real problems and I was pretty happy with my time. My calf had been troubling me in the build-up to the race and I wasn't even sure if I was going to run. Twelve days after the tests began, a three-month-old humpback whale calf was sighted without its mother for at least five hours and displayed unusual behaviour. She's a short-horn dairy calf, brown and mottled with huge, sweet eyes. She bunted her calf, Molly, up on top of the gate with her horns. Ranch hands would have friendly contests to see who could rope and tie a calf the quickest, or who could stay on an unbroken horse or bull the longest. The 32-year-old surfer, a teacher and boatbuilder in Cornwall, was given the equivalent of 200 stitches to a jagged wound to his right calf and foot. Britain's victory hopes took a setback during the warm-up when the penalty corner specialist Ben Hawes strained a calf muscle and was replaced by Jerome Goudie. Carey is troubled with a calf injury, while O'Hara has a groin strain. Inside, the mounted menagerie includes a duck, a pheasant, a raccoon, a brown bear and a two-headed calf, who are kept company by three unstuffed but very old cats. A Florida rotational crossbreeding study involving the Angus, Brahman, and Hereford breeds revealed that calf survival rates were similar for the three sire breeds. It is amazing how large and beautifully formed is a newborn calf. Fat away-shirted slobs accompanied by that sort of husband that has a tattoo on his left calf and three bullet-headed children with imitation firearms. The Achilles tendon spans two joints and connects the calcaneus to the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, comprising the largest and strongest muscle complex in the calf. There is no need for you to be unnecessarily concerned, for this calf love will disappear and the lady fall from her pedestal for one of the following reasons. As for the animal bones, Smithson noted that almost all were carbonized, and included lamb vertebrae, as well as two larger vertebrae, probably from a calf. They found that a wheel had passed over his right calf and thigh, leaving his knee itself untouched. And many bills in the library's Account Book refer to binding books in plain calf, sheepskin, or half bindings. Show More Sentences If the calf is male, it generally is slaughtered at a young age to produce veal. For dairy cattle to continue producing milk, they must give birth to one calf per year. I once had the book in my hands, a handsome volume bound in calf, but I never read it and I have not been able to get hold of a copy since. The calf emerges head and front legs first, having broken through the fetal membranes, and falls to the ground, severing the umbilical cord. Weaning can take place when a calf is consuming at least two pounds of starter feed a day and has been on starter for at least three weeks. The calf suckles for 18 months to up to 8 years, and continues to closely associate with its mother for several years after weaning. Dairy calves are usually raised separately from their mothers, although most are raised in a calf hutch that is bigger than a veal crate. The calf is dependent for one to two years, and maturity occurs after seven to ten years, all varying between species. Now that's a cankle! Where does the calf fat end and the ankle fat begin? Who knows, that's the fun! Females deliver a single calf after a gestation period lasting about a year. Typically dolphins give birth to a single calf, which is, unlike most other mammals, born tail first in most cases. The officers then discovered the steak knife strapped to the calf of his right leg by electrical tape. Advances in production of embryos in vitro from juvenile and prepuberal oocytes from the calf and lamb. The calf swam along the panga, nuzzling the sides and turning to take a look at the turistas. Forward Jumaine Jones scrimmaged for the first time since injuring his right calf Nov. Unfortunately, Hannah's mixed game came to a premature end when her partner Kevin Ruttle pulled a calf muscle and had to concede. Pyomyositis usually occurs in proximal muscle groups, including the quadriceps, iliopsoas, gluteus, calf, shoulder, and upper arm muscles. The beginner will instinctively try to stick his toe straight in in a foot hold, which is very tiring on the calf muscles. In a tribute to Mr Casey, Fota Wildlife Park in Cork has named a female giraffe calf Casey and a male black and white ruffed lemur Paraic. Buzkashi is Afghanistan's national sport, in which horse-mounted players attempt to drag a goat or calf carcass towards a goal. Show More Sentences The RSPCA has seen film of an emaciated, sorecovered bull calf exported from Zimbabwe to Taiyuan Zoo in northern China. The RSPCA confirmed the calf swam away into deeper water but warned that refloated whales can become stranded again. Doctors initially told her the injury was not serious, but she ended up having to undergo a skin graft and has been left with a scar on her calf. When the female calf reaches four to five months old, the mammary cells in the udder start to increase in size. In tonight's final episode, Paulmeets Douglas, a hippo calf who was found at five months old wandering near the Zambezi. Naylor JM, Forsyth GW The alkalinizing effects of metabolizable bases in the healthy calf. They spotted a potential quarry, a wildebeest calf, part of a small herd of wildebeests not far away. The black double-handles bag in calf skin with laser cuts and metal studs gives an ostrich skin effect. Its calf skin leather watchband can be interchanged according to the preference of the user. After the passive immunity wears off, a crossbred calf builds strong immunity of his own. I think a couple of stand-out ones were swimming with a mother humpback whale and her calf in Japan, and riding a motorbike on the Wall of Death. When she tries to wrangle a calf, she ends up flat on her face in the barnyard muck. They count a cow's warping her calf a month before her time not to be so bad as an ewe's losing her lamb. Chronic and transitional regulation of gluconeogenesis and glyconeogenesis by insulin and glucagon in neonatal calf hepatocytes. At the end of the normal gestation period the cow threw two calf mummies as large as cats. And I may answer with another question. Why is a two-headed calf? And my own answer to this is that it is a freak. When the calf is old enough, mom will leave her baby on ice floes while she goes on short foraging trips. Adhesive backed calf hair plates are also extremely quiet and durable, but being made of leather they will also retain some moisture. The production of milk requires that the cow be in lactation, which is a result of the cow having given birth to a calf. Decreased health in the new born calf will negatively impact the quality of the replacement herd. Show More Sentences Squealing and still propelled by the kick, the calf scrabbled through the forest of legs and into the open. Perhaps most importantly, it conveys passive immunity to the calf before its immune system is fully developed. This colostrum is not usually commercially sold, but is extremely important for early calf nutrition. At about 800lbs Holstein heifers will normally be able to carry a healthy calf and give birth with relative ease. Most dairy producers aim for a replacement heifer to give birth to her first calf, and thus join the milking herd, on her second birthday. All female animals that have yet to give birth to their first calf are called heifers. Beckham, after having been fouled by Diego Simeone, kicked Simeone while lying on the floor, striking him on the calf muscle. Gestation lasts about 12 months and to wean the calf takes a further 12 to 18 months. One stranded humpback whale calf was kept in captivity for rehabilitation, but died days later. Gigi II was another grey whale calf that was captured in the Ojo de Liebre Lagoon, and was transported to SeaWorld. They will then stay there for a matter of months until the calf has developed enough blubber to survive the bitter temperatures of the poles. Thus, the female dolphin's mammary glands have a muscle that when contracted, squirts milk so that it can feed its calf. Until the calf is six months old, it obtains its nourishment solely from its mother's milk. The majority of peasant farmers in the tropics allow the calf to suckle before milking in order to obtain a let-down of milk. Staying close to its mother, the calf never strays more than a few feet, especially when it is very young. The calf, later named Gigi, was separated from her mother using a form of lasso attached to her flukes. In 1971, SeaWorld captured a California gray whale calf in Mexico at Scammon's Lagoon. When suckling, the mother actively splashes milk into the mouth of the calf, using the muscles of her mammary glands, as the calf has no lips. The Duchess, who wore a tartan coatdress by Alexander McQueen and three-inch high calf length boots, returned on St Andrew's Day. Eventually, they separate the pair and surround the calf, preventing it from surfacing to breathe, drowning it. Show More Sentences Blood pools in the foot and calf, causing significant swelling and weeping wounds that ulcerate and form sores. Orcas prey on target groups of females with young, usually making an effort to extract and kill a calf. Injaz had conceived naturally and delivered the calf after completing the normal gestation period. Remember to stretch your feet and legs as well to relax tight calf muscles, toe extensor muscles, and plantar fascia. In recent years, very small, but with increasing rates, fin whales and humpback whales migrate into Baltic sea including mother and calf pair. This gives it a consistency similar to cottage cheese, which prevents it from dissolving in the water before the calf can eat it. Birth is a social event, as the mother and calf need others to protect them from predators. In 1999, only one right whale calf was born, compared to the 21 that were born in 1996, before the climate shift. Females must have access to plenty of food to successfully make it through pregnancy and produce enough milk to rear a calf. It was noted in retrospect that human erythrocytes would not pass through the capillaries of a calf, goat, or sheep heterograft organ. Nine orca whales, including a calf, had died while beached on Te WaeWae Bay overnight. A calf whose skin is of a dirty grey colour is said to have a mozy look. Milk replacer is generally a powder, which comes in large bags, and is added to precise amounts of water, and then fed to the calf via bucket or bottle. We have records of the monastery needing a new grant of land to raise two thousand more cattle to get the calf skins to make the vellum to make the manuscript. In addition, 900 sucklers are currently in calf to the Stabiliser. With a timid, loutish movement the great beast turned aside, then lumbered off followed by the calf. The other buffalo also extricated itself from the slime and lolloped away. Angiomatous vascular malformation in the spinal cord of a Hereford calf. Good bets include the Victorian lace-up high-stiletto calf boot from Faith, priced at pounds 130, which can turn a sensible look into a seductive one. But there are wealthy nutters or cranks out there who paid over 10m for Hirst's formaldehyded 18-month-old dead calf with its Ancient Egyptian sun disc screwed to its skull. She was said to have appeared there in the form of a calf one evening when a piper, Laurence Hoolahan, would not stop annoying her with his ceaseless drunken tweetings. Show More Sentences To unknot the calves, try kneeling with a skinny roller lying on top of the calf muscle length-wise, sit back on it, and move gently from side to side. To Agnes Fullam my daughter-in-law 1 calf or wennel to be weaned and brought up at Easter next come 12 months until it be profitable and then to have it to her own use. Notable in feminine footgear of the first two decades was the increasing number of different shoe leathers consisting of box calf, white calf, colored kids, buck and antelope. When begun to be weaned, about the end of 16 weeks, give in racks in the calf pens, young vetches, bruised cake, beans, and barleymeals boiled, and linseed jellies. Gestation requires 14 to 16 months, producing a single calf. A cow will not produce milk until she has given birth to a calf. The seven rescued whales, including one calf, had been transported to a floating protective sea pen where they were being cared for by vets and rehydrated. Drogba hurt his ankle after falling awkwardly from a challenge by Naldo and Ballack suffered stud-marks on his calf following a scyth ing tackle from Pierre Wome. The dolphin Moko in New Zealand has been observed guiding a female Pygmy Sperm Whale together with her calf out of shallow water where they had stranded several times. Females deliver a single calf with gestation lasting about a year, dependency until one to two years, and maturity around seven to ten years, all varying between the species. Because ovulation is suppressed until the calf is weaned, females give birth at most every two years, leaving the walrus with the lowest reproductive rate of any pinniped. Bourdillon's library includes books printed before 1600 in their original pigskin or stamped calf bindings and some examples of modern fine binding. Likewise, an isolated population in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, is in decline due to calf loss coincident to an increase in warm freshwater discharge into the fjord. The 31-year-old former Newcastle United player was building up his fitness following a calf strain when he suffered a cruciate ligament injury on Saturday. This mating was later repeated in captivity, producing a hybrid calf. Based on studies of their close relatives, the modern elephants, mammoths probably had a gestation period of 22 months, resulting in a single calf being born. When we got there the calf orca was dragging the shark through the water. The ScourCheck scheme, which analyses calf faeces for infectious scour pathogens, found the cryptosporidia parasite was present in almost four out of 10 samples this year. Flannery, an automatic pick if fit, is nursing a calf injury and Kidney will make a final check on him today, with John Fogarty or Sean Cronin on standby to deputise. The Capri pant, pedal pusher or cut-off has stuck with us for the past two summers and the cropped off calf look looks like staying around for a lot longer. Show More Sentences Peter grabbed the quilt off his trundle bed and rubbed the calf dry. In the last 12 months Ryder has had surgery on his abdominal wall, and has suffered an inflamed shoulder, a calf strain, an injured elbow and a finger injury. Assessment of epidermal condition and calf size of Fiordland bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus populations using dorsal fin photographs and photogrammetry. The farm bureau, through subscriptions from members, was able to give a holstein bull calf and a trio of fowls as prizes in a contest among the winners of the six districts. Examples from Classical Literature It is usually the result of infantile paralysis of the muscles of the calf. A maverick is an unbranded calf that has been weaned and shifts for itself. On the back of the leg the most important muscles, forming what is known as the calf, are the gastrocnemius and the soleus. In one specimen, which is especially notable, two incisor teeth are replaced by a single tooth from a calf. Upon which he was surnamed sura, sura being the Roman word for the calf of the leg. Bruce sprang upon the tailboard to ride, the dogs chased the cow and calf to the crossing. If strong and vigorous, the calf is the best doctor for garget or caked bag. Their sandals were secured with scarlet thongs, crossed and gartered to the calf. And you know there's that calf I told you I'd give you if you helped me with the haying. He cut up the dead calf, skinned it, and nailed the skin up in the porch to dry. The calf should be allowed to suckle or be fed from the pail for six or eight months. The whitest meat is not the most juicy, having been made so by frequent bleeding, and giving the calf some whiting to lick. They are now dressed to a large extent in imitation of box calf, being much cheaper. As the stomach of the calf is bifold, we have seen the mistake frequently made of saving the wrong one. When a fellow has, as I have, a fine leg and a calf fit for a model, he isnt sorry to show them. Its mother stood by during the proceeding and regarded the fraternising with her calf dubiously. He dragged the first one to the spot where the calf was blatting so pitifully. But the calf has in its upper jaw some rudiments of teeth which never are developed, and never play the part of teeth at all. That dog I met in the boreen at Ballinamantane, he was the size of a calf, and black, and his paws the size of I don't know what. They were twisted and gnarly, and with scarcely the semblance of the full meaty calf such as graces your leg and mine. Show More Sentences Sons of my father, I would not pay half a calf in lobola for one white woman I have ever seen. They will continue to give milk till eight months gone with calf, or till they calve again, if you continue to milk them. Glac calf is made much in the same way as box calf, but there is no graining at all. Throwing a nubbin to the calf to catch the cow, as you say in Virginia, eh? Whichever process of tanning has been used, the skins are neutralized and washed thoroughly, as for box calf, sammed and shaved. After the calf is a few days old, colostrum changes to what is commonly known as milk. A soldier was going over the top when one of his cootie friends bit him on the calf. Another variety of cysticercus is met with in the flesh of the ox, the cow, and the calf. I rushed back and forth like a lost calf, trying to recall what a deflector was, and I couldn't distinguish thoiteen from three. The dyeing of box calf is generally done in the drum tumbler, but there are several other methods. A still more curious incident of the Dionysiac worship was the sacrifice of a booted calf, a calf with cothurns on its feet. Willow calf is exactly the same kind of leather as box calf, except that it is dyed brown instead of black. A blocky white and black cow with a calf at her heels bolted toward the end of the field and the rest followed. A foal is an immature horse, a chicken an immature fowl, a calf an immature ox, a fledgeling an immature bird. Our copy is in the original full calf gold stamped binding, with the ex libris of James Maidment. The usual mode of milking is to leave the calf sucking on one side, while the milker sits on the other, and gets his portion. Find more words! 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