calve

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

calve, v. i. [AS. cealfian. See Calf.].

•  To bring forth a calf.  Job xxi. 10.  [1913 Webster]
•  To bring forth young; to produce offspring.  [1913 Webster]

  "Canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?"  [1913 Webster]

  "The grassy clods now calved."  [1913 Webster]
•  To throw off fragments which become icebergs; -- said of a glacier.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

calve, v.
1 a intr. give birth to a calf. b tr. (esp. in passive) give birth to (a calf).
2 tr. (also absol.) (of an iceberg) break off or shed (a mass of ice).

Etymology

OE calfian