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Answer for the clue "Come or be in close contact with ", 5 letters:
cleft
Alternative clues for the word cleft
Word definitions for cleft in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., past participle adjective from cleave (v.1)). Cleft palate attested from 1828.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cleft \Cleft\, a. Divided; split; partly divided or split. (Bot.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf.
Usage examples of cleft.
Bull at once betook him to digging a grave for his brother, whilst Ralph with the captain and four others went and sought all about the place, and looked into all clefts of rocks, and found not the maiden, nor any token of her.
John Branner lay there, face down, his cleft head revealed in merciless clarity in the steady light.
Cloudless was the day, and the air clean and sweet, and every nook and cranny was clear to behold from where they stood: there were great jutting nesses with straight-walled burgs at their top-most, and pyramids and pinnacles that no hand of man had fashioned, and awful clefts like long streets in the city of the giants who wrought the world, and high above all the undying snow that looked as if the sky had come down on to the mountains and they were upholding it as a roof.
Hospital, the tract of modern deformity, cleft by a gulf of railway, which spreads between Clerkenwell Road and Charterhouse Street.
Suddenly Dolley dug her heels into the sides of her little horse and headed straight for the yawning cleft.
And more than ever before, the donjuanesque journey here points, by its repetitive crossings of borders, to the supreme cleft of time: the one between memory and forgetting and through this between irony and nostalgia.
We had crept through clefts whose walls had sent back the howlings of the Ephthalites, the White Huns who had sapped the strength of these same proud Sassanids until at last both fell before the Turks.
On the other hand, a cleft scrotum, an ill-developed penis, perhaps hypospadias or epispadias, rotundity of the mammae, and feminine contour have also provoked accounts of similar instances.
Kapila saw when he looked heavenward, and of what the Athenians accused Anaxagoras, or to know the secret name of Jahveh, or who cleft the Gordian knot, the meaning of 666.
She pulls it from the cleft between her ample breasts, glances back at him once again, smiling, and inserts it into the keyway in the door.
A narrow, ladderlike stair of handholds had been niched into the rock, and a few feet from the foot of this ascent a cleft, wide and tall enough for a man to enter, opened in the wall.
In a few moments Harding and Herbert on one side, the reporter and Neb on the other, had disappeared behind the rocks, and five minutes later Ayrton and Pencroft, having without difficulty crossed the channel, disembarked on the islet and concealed themselves in the clefts of its eastern shore.
As she knelt to pick up the darkest, oiliest rocks with which to cook her supper, pebbles fell from above her and a small blue dragon slid out of a cleft.
Sheer panties showed the full, pretty curves of the rear cheeks and the cleft between them.
An opaque pantihose seam ran crookedly down the cleft between her cheeks, and below, the narrow satin strip of the panties covered some of her best features.