Definition of cleft

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Cleft (n.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.

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Chop :: Chop (n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.
Crevasse :: Crevasse (n.) A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided..
Chappy :: Chappy () Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.
Pedatifid :: Pedatifid (a.) Cleft in a pedate manner, but having the lobes distinctly connected at the base; -- said of a leaf..
Decemfid :: Decemfid (a.) Cleft into ten parts.
Opening :: Opening (n.) A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole..
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.
Fissure :: Fissure (n.) A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock..
Clove :: Clove (v. t.) A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove..
Quinque- :: Quinque- () A combining form meaning five, five times, fivefold; as, quinquefid, five-cleft; quinquedentate, five-toothed..
Vein :: Vein (n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance..
Parted :: Parted (a.) Cleft so that the divisions reach nearly, but not quite, to the midrib, or the base of the blade; -- said of a leaf, and used chiefly in composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc..
Rift :: Rift (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
Jag :: Jag (n.) A cleft or division.
Sexifid :: Sexifid (a.) Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary..
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 (imp.) of Cleav.
Vulviform :: Vulviform (a.) Like a cleft with projecting edges.
Cleftgraft :: Cleftgraft (v. t.) To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.
Rima :: Rima (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.
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