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.