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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 212 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HEIFER , a See also:

young cow that has not calved . The O . Eng. heahfore or heafru, from which the word is derived, is cif obscure origin . It is found in See also:

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HISTORY

History (A.D . 900) as heahf ore, and has passed through many forms . It is possibly derived from heah, high, and faren (fare), to go, meaning " high-stepper." It has also been suggested that the derivation is from /See also:

TEA (Chinese cha, Amoy dialect t€)

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STALL (0. Eng. steall, stael, cf. Du. stal, Ger. and Swed. Stall, a common Teutonic word for a place, station, place for standing in; the root is the Indo-European std–, to stand, seen also in Latin stabulum, Greek vraO bs, and in stallion, an entire hors

stall, and fore, a cow .

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