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Date "MOON-CALF" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Moon-calf is an inanimate, shapeless mass (Pliny; Natural History, x. 64). This abortion was supposed to be produced by the influence of the moon. The primary meaning of calf is not the young of a cow, but the issue arising "from throwing out," as a push, a protuberance; hence the calves of the legs. "A false conception, called mola, i.e. moon-calf . . . a lump of flesh without shape or life."- Holland: Pliny, vii. 16. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MOON-CALF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | jelimánek. (various references) | |
Manx | far lheiy. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oon-calfmay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mooncalf. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-l-m-n-o-o" | |
-2 letters: falcon, flacon. | |
-3 letters: aloof, colon, comal, focal, loofa, macon, moola. | |
-4 letters: calf, calm, calo, clam, clan, clon, coal, cola, coma, coof, cool, coon, fano, flam, flan, floc, foal, foam, fool, loaf, loam, loan, loca, loco, loof, loom, loon, mano, moan, mola, mono, mool, moon, nolo, noma. | |
-5 letters: cam, can, col, con, coo, fan, fon. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-l-m-n-o-o" | |
+1 letter: conformal. | |
+3 letters: conformable, conformably. | |
+5 letters: mollification, uncomfortable, uncomfortably, unconformable, unconformably. | |
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