Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Calve

Calve (kav) , intransitive verb

[Anglo-Saxon cealfian. See Calf.]

1.
To bring forth a calf.
Their cow calveth. — Job xxi. 10
2.
To bring forth young; to produce offspring.
Canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? — Job xxxix. 1
The grassy clods now calved. — Molton
3.
(Physics Geography) To throw off fragments which become icebergs; -- said of a glacier.