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tary's place, . . . and yet kept good quarter between themselves. Bacon. False quarter, a cleft in the quarter of a horse's foot. -- Fifth quarter, the hide and fat; -- a butcher's term. -- On the quarter (Naut.), in a direction between abeam and astern; opposite, or nearly opposite, a vessel's quarter. -- Quarter a…

A combining form meaning five, five times, fivefold; as, quinquefid, five-cleft; quinquedentate, five-toothed.

deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.

An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure. Spenser.

A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.

Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees.

A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure. Hammond.

A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.

Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary.

means of one or more sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff, immediately after the clef, affecting all notes of the same letter throughout the piece or movement. Each minor key has the same signature as its relative major.

rying shrilly; a skirl. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W. Scott. When the skirling of the pipes cleft the air his cold eyes softened. Mrs. J. H. Ewing.

A congenital malformation in which the spinal column is cleft at its lower portion, and the membranes of the spinal cord project as an elastic swelling from the gap thus formed.

Slit; cleft. [Obs. & R.]

gill cavity of certain ganoid and all elasmobranch fishes. It is the modified first gill cleft.

"With glistering spires and pinnacles adorned." Milton. A spire of land that stand apart, Cleft from the main. Tennyson. Tall spire from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the listening ear. Cowper.

Divided; cleft.

o, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive.

The operation of uniting a cleft palate, consisting in paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft. -- Staph`y*lo*raph"ic, Staph`y*lor*rhaph"ic, a.

England), based on key relationship, and hence called "tonic." Instead of the five lines, clefs, signature, etc., of the usual notation, it employs letters and the syllables do, re, mi, etc., variously modified, with other simple signs of duration, of upper or lower octave, etc. See Sol-fa.

Cleft to the middle, or slightly beyond the middle, into three parts; three-cleft.