Definition of rift

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Rift (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.

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Improvidence :: Improvidence (n.) The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift.
Reft :: Reft (n.) A chink; a rift. See Rift.
Drifty :: Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like..
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..
Rive :: Rive (n.) A place torn; a rent; a rift.
Frugality :: Frugality (n.) The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance..
Eschar :: Eschar (n.) In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams..
Rift :: Rift (v. t.) To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds..
Prodigal :: Prodigal (n.) One who expends money extravagantly, viciously, or without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a waster; a spendthrift..
Thrifty :: Thrifty (superl.) Secured by thrift; well husbanded.
Boulder :: Boulder (n.) A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift..
Glacialist :: Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers..
Intent :: Intent (n.) The act of turning the mind toward an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim..
Thriftless :: Thriftless (a.) Without thrift; not prudent or prosperous in money affairs.
Snowdrift :: Snowdrift (n.) A bank of drifted snow.
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Anything that drifts.
Rifted :: Rifted (imp. & p. p.) of Rif.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
Drivebolt :: Drivebolt (n.) A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
Score :: Score (n.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch..
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