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base of petals of the pink. Gray. Claw hammer, a hammer with one end of the metallic head cleft for use in extracting nails, etc. -- Claw hammer coat, a dress coat of the swallowtail pattern. [Slang] -- Claw sickness, foot rot, a disease affecting sheep.

To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut. O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain. Shak.

See Clef. [Obs.]

A cleft of crack; a narrow opening. [Obs.]

One of the divisions of a cleft hoof, as in the ox; also, the whole hoof.

A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley. Nares.

imp. of Cleave. Cleft. Spenser. Clove hitch (Naut.) See under Hitch. -- Clove hook (Naut.), an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight.

defect or malformation; esp., a fissure of the iris supposed to be a persistent embryonic cleft.

r closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.

A place of hiding; a secret place; a retreat frem observation. The cleft tree Offers its kind concealment to a few. Thomson.

of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor. Counter-tenor clef (Mus.), the C clef when placed on the third line; -- also called alto clef.

A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.

A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent. The mouse, Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked, Or from the crevice peered about. Tennyson.

An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut.

Cleft into ten parts.

After the manner of a drop; in the form of drops. Trickling dropwise from the cleft. Tennyson.

f the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F #) is a tone intermediate between F and G. F clef, the bass clef. See under Clef.

Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals. This crystal is a pellucid, fissile stone. Sir I. Newton.

Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers.

A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft.