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Origin of sea calfMiddle English word dating back to 1350–1400 Words nearby sea calfSeabright bantam syndrome, sea buckthorn, Seabury, sea butterfly, sea cabbage, sea calf, sea canary, sea captain, sea change, sea chest, seacoast Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for sea calfHere, you son of a sea-calf, take this down to the waterside for me! Romantic Spain|John Augustus O'Shea He was so terrified at thunder and lightning that he always carried with him the skin of a sea-calf as an antidote. The Catholic World; Vol. IV.; October, 1866, to March, 1867.|E. Rameur The sole is covered with a sea-calf's skin, with the hair outside; this precaution hinders retrograde movements. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIV, May 1852, Vol. IV|Various Ipsis (says Pliny, speaking of the sea-calf) in somne mugitus, unde nomen vituli. Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
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