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clefted, clifted, ppl. a. [f. cleft, clift n. + -ed; but clefted is sometimes app. an extended form of the pa. pple cleft.] Having clefts, divisions, or fissures; cleft, split.
1552Huloet, Clefted or cleued in two partes, bifidus. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. vii. (1593) 159 Dipping in the pits of bloud a sort of clifted brands. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 440 To cover close with cloven or clefted cloaths or garments. 1697Congreve Mourn. Bride i. iii, The swarming populace spread every wall..through clifted stones, stretching and staring. 1776Withering Bot. Arrangem. (1796) II. 208 Flowers sitting, mostly 4-clefted. 1861L. L. Noble Icebergs 248 The whole clifted and pinnacled circumference [of an ice-berg]. a1876Aird Buy a Broom i, Among the clefted branches. |