Definition of cleft

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Cleft () imp. & p. p. from Cleave.

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Cleft-footed :: Cleft-footed (a.) Having a cloven foot.
Ravine :: Ravine (n.) A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft..
Chop :: Chop (n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.
Crevice :: Crevice (n.) A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
Commissure :: Commissure (n.) A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture..
Chap :: Chap (n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin..
Fissirostral :: Fissirostral (a.) Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers..
Fissirostres :: Fissirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft.
Vein :: Vein (n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance..
Jag :: Jag (n.) A cleft or division.
Spiracle :: Spiracle (n.) A tubular orifice communicating with the gill cavity of certain ganoid and all elasmobranch fishes. It is the modified first gill cleft.
Chine :: Chine (n.) A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep..
Rift :: Rift (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
Chasm :: Chasm (n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure..
Cleft :: Cleft (p. p.) of Cleav.
Sexifid :: Sexifid (a.) Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary..
Scissure :: Scissure (n.) A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure..
Chink :: Chink (n.) A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall..
Clift :: Clift (n.) A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.
Cleft :: Cleft (a.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf..
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