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Word Meanings - CLEFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

from Cleave.

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  • INTERVALLUM
    An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.
  • OPENNESS
    The quality or state of being open.
  • CLEFTGRAFT
    To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.
  • CRACKAJACK
    1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. 2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes.
  • FISSURE
    A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures , the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole
  • APERTURE
    The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture. Note: The aperture of microscopes is often expressed in degrees, called also the angular aperture,
  • CRACK-BRAINED
    Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
  • OPEN SEA
    A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
  • CRACKER STATE
    Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5.
  • CLEFT
    from Cleave.
  • CRACKLE
    To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden.
  • CRACKLED
    Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
  • INTERVAL
    Difference in pitch between any two tones. At intervals, coming or happening with intervals between; now and then. "And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals." Tennyson. -- Augmented interval , an interval increased by half a step or half a tone.
  • CHINK
    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.
  • CRACKSMAN
    A burglar.
  • CRACK
    cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crake, Cracknel, 1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts. 2.
  • CRACKLING
    Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting. (more info) 1. The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated. As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. Eccl. vii. 6. 2. The well-browned,
  • OPEN
    1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures
  • OPEN-MOUTHED
    Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.
  • CRACKNEL
    A hard brittle cake or biscuit. Spenser.
  • PROPENE
    See PROPYLENE
  • WIT-CRACKER
    One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak.
  • ISOCHASMIC
    Indicating equal auroral display; as, an isochasmic line.
  • PROPENSE
    Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
  • TWO-CLEFT
    Divided about half way from the border to the base into two segments; bifid.
  • SCRANNY
    Thin; lean; meager; scrawny; scrannel.

 

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