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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Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock..
Rima :: Rima (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.
Staphylotomy :: Staphylorrhaphy (n.) The operation of uniting a cleft palate, consisting in paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft..
Rift :: Rift (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; 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..
Cleft :: Cleft (p. p.) of Cleav.
Fissirostres :: Fissirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft.
Pygopod :: Pygopod (n.) Any species of serpentiform lizards of the family Pygopodidae, which have rudimentary hind legs near the anal cleft, but lack fore legs..
Vulviform :: Vulviform (a.) Like a cleft with projecting edges.
Clove :: Clove (v. t.) A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove..
Clift :: Clift (n.) A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.
Split :: Split (a.) Divided; cleft.
Palma Christi :: Palma Christi () A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant..
Multifid :: Multifid (a.) Having many segments; cleft into several parts by linear sinuses; as, a multifid leaf or corolla..
Fissile :: Fissile (a.) Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals..
Chinky :: Chinky (a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.
Undivided :: Undivided (a.) Not lobed, cleft, or branched; entire..
Scissure :: Scissure (n.) A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure..
Chappy :: Chappy () Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.
Clough :: Clough (n.) A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.
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