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A movement in dancing, as across or to the right or left.

cow; to ruminate; hence, to meditate. Every beast the parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. Deut. xxiv. 6.

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. [Prov. Eng.] "The cottage in a chine." J. Ingelow.

A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall. Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. Macaulay.

Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. Dryden.

A crack or cleft. See Chap.

Selected from a number; picked out; choice. Seven hundred chosen men left-handed. Judg. xx. 16.

dation, hills which have been produced by surface erosion; the elevations which have been left, after denudation of a mass of high ground. Jukes.

ase 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.

or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt. My companion . . . left the way clear for him. Addison.

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

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.

A chief man; a leader or master. [Humorous] Sir Andrew is the cock of the club, since he left us. Addison.

One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance.

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

carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens.