From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cleave \Cleave\ (kl[=e]v), verb (used with an object) [imp. {Cleft} (kl[e^]ft), {Clave} (kl[=a]v, Obs.), {Clove} (kl[=o]v, Obsolescent); p. p. {Cleft}, {Cleaved} (kl[=e]vd) or {Cloven} (kl[=o]"v'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cleaving}.] [OE. cleoven, cleven, AS. cle['o]fan; akin to OS. klioban, D. klooven, G. klieben, Icel. klj[=u]fa, Sw. klyfva, Dan. kl["o]ve and prob. to Gr. gly'fein to carve, L. glubere to peel. Cf. {Cleft}.]
1. To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut.
O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain. --Shak.
2. To part or open naturally; to divide.
Every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws. --Deut. xiv. 6.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cleft \Cleft\ (kl[e^]ft), imp. & p. p. from {Cleave}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. Divided; split; partly divided or split.
2. (Bot.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cleft \Cleft\, noun [OE. clift; cf. Sw. klyft cave, den, Icel. kluft cleft, Dan. kl["o]ft, G. kluft. See {Cleave} to split and cf. 2d {Clift}, 1st {Clough}.]
1. A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock. --Is. ii. 21.
2. A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood.
3. (Far.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
{Branchial clefts}. See under {Branchial}.
Syn: Crack; crevice; fissure; chink; cranny.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: used of hooves [syn: {cloven}, {bisulcate}]
2: having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib [syn: {dissected}]
noun
1: a split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin)
2: a long narrow opening [syn: {crack}, {crevice}, {fissure}, {scissure}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
verb
1: separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone" [syn: {split}, {rive}]
2: make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock"
3: come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere" [syn: {cling}, {adhere}, {stick}, {cohere}] [also: {cloven}, {clove}, {cleft}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
171 Moby Thesaurus words for "cleft": abysm, abyss, alienation, aperture, arroyo, bifurcated, bisected, blaze, box canyon, branched, branching, breach, breach of friendship, break, breakage, broaching, burst, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chinky, chip, clearing, cleavage, cleuch, clough, clove, cloven, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cracked, cranny, crena, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, defile, dehiscent, dell, depression, dichotomous, dike, dimidiate, disaffection, disclosure, disfavor, disruption, disunion, disunity, ditch, divergence, divided, dividedness, division, donga, draw, estrangement, excavation, falling-out, fault, fenestra, fissure, fissured, fissury, fistula, flaw, flume, fontanel, foramen, forked, forking, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gaping, gappy, gash, gat, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hack, halved, hiatus, hole, hollow, in pieces, in shreds, incision, indentation, inlet, interval, jag, jog, joggle, joint, kerf, kloof, lacerate, lacerated, lacuna, laying open, leak, mangled, moat, mutilated, nick, nock, notch, nullah, open rupture, opening, opening up, orifice, outlet, pass, passage, passageway, pore, quartered, ragged, ramified, ravine, recall of ambassadors, rent, rift, rime, rimose, rimulose, rip, riven, rupture, scale, schism, scissure, score, scotch, seam, separation, severed, shredded, slash, slice, slit, slot, space, splinter, splintered, split, stoma, tattered, tear, throwing open, torn, trench, uncorking, unstopping, valley, void, wadi, yawn
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