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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cleave \Cleave\ (kl[=e]v), v. t. [imp. {Cleft} (kl[e^]ft),
{Clave} (kl[=a]v, Obs.), {Clove} (kl[=o]v, Obsolescent); p.
p. {Cleft}, {Cleaved} (kl[=e]vd) or {Cloven} (kl[=o]"v'n); p.
pr & vb n. {Cleaving}.] [OE. cleoven, cleven, AS
cle['o]fan; akin to OS klioban D. klooven G. klieben
Icel. klj[=u]fa, Sw klyfva Dan. kl["o]ve and prob. to Gr
gly`fein to carve, L. glubere to peel. Cf {Cleft}.]
1. To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut.
O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain. --Shak.
2. To part or open naturally; to divide.
Every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the
cleft into two claws. --Deut. xiv.
6.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cleft \Cleft\ (kl[e^]ft),
imp. & p. p. from {Cleave}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cleft \Cleft\, a.
1. Divided; split; partly divided or split.
2. (Bot.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as a cleft leaf.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cleft \Cleft\, n. [OE. clift; cf Sw klyft cave, den, Icel.
kluft cleft, Dan. kl["o]ft, G. kluft See {Cleave} to split
and cf 2d {Clift}, 1st {Clough}.]
1. A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice;
as the cleft of a rock. --Is. ii 21.
2. A piece made by splitting; as a cleft of wood.
3. (Far.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the
pastern.
{Branchial clefts}. See under {Branchial}.
Syn: Crack; crevice; fissure; chink; cranny.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
cleft
adj 1: used of hooves [syn: {cloven}, {bisulcate}]
2: having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib
[syn: {dissected}]
n 1: a split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin)
2: a long narrow opening [syn: {crack}, {crevice}, {fissure}, {scissure}]
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