Definition of cleft

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Cleft (n.) A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood..

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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..
Cleft :: Cleft (imp.) of Cleav.
Cleft-footed :: Cleft-footed (a.) Having a cloven foot.
Clough :: Clough (n.) A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.
Fissirostres :: Fissirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft.
Chop :: Chop (n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.
Jagged :: "Jagged (a.) Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks..
Aperture :: Aperture (n.) An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall..
Clove :: Clove (v. t.) A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove..
Bifid :: Bifid (a.) Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins..
Cleftgraft :: Cleftgraft (v. t.) To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.
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..
Spiniferous :: Spineted (a.) Slit; cleft.
Jeffersonia :: "Jeffersonia (n.) An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf..
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 (a.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf..
Chappy :: Chappy () Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.
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..
Undivided :: Undivided (a.) Not lobed, cleft, or branched; entire..
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