Crossword clues for cloven
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cleave \Cleave\ (kl[=e]v), v. t. [imp. Cleft (kl[e^]ft), Clave (kl[=a]v, Obs.), Clove (kl[=o]v, Obsolescent); p. p. Cleft, Cleaved (kl[=e]vd) or Cloven (kl[=o]"v'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Cleaving.] [OE. cleoven, cleven, AS. cle['o]fan; akin to OS. klioban, D. klooven, G. klieben, Icel. klj[=u]fa, Sw. klyfva, Dan. kl["o]ve and prob. to Gr. gly`fein to carve, L. glubere to peel. Cf. Cleft.]
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To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut.
O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
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To part or open naturally; to divide.
Every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws.
--Deut. xiv. 6.
Cloven \Clo"ven\ (kl[=o]"v'n), p. p. & a. from Cleave, v. t.
To show the cloven foot or To show the cloven hoof, to reveal a devilish character, or betray an evil purpose, notwithstanding disguises, -- Satan being represented dramatically and symbolically as having cloven hoofs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"divided, split," Old English clofen, past participle adjective from cleave (v.1).
Wiktionary
split or divided. v
(past participle of cleave English)
WordNet
See cleave
v. separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone" [syn: split, rive]
make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock"
come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere" [syn: cling, adhere, stick, cohere]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "cloven".
Not quite an acre in size, it was shaped like a cloven hoof, the split on its northeastern It side forming a cove that plunged to a depth of at least a hundred fathoms and was densely forested with eelgrass along its inshore ledges.
And earnest to explore within--around : And ever as he went he swept a lyre : And, if my grief should still be dearer to me : And like a dying lady, lean and pale : And many there were hurt by that strong boy : And Peter Bell, when he had been : And said I that all hope was fled : And that I walk thus proudly crowned withal : And the cloven waters like a chasm of mountains : And when the old man saw that on the green : And where is truth?
I had clothed, since Earth uprose, Its wastes in colours not their own, And oft had my serene repose Been cloven by many a rending groan.
The road was a muddy gutter of cloven hoofprints, and was rutted with gullies full of water where timber sledges had grooved the surface.
They were tailless, had cloven hooves and small white eyes across which silvery nictitating membranes flashed.
Before long the world will be cloven with a war between the telescopists and the microscopists.
Directly above Thyangboche, ten thousand feet of vertical ice define the cloven, sure lines of Tamserku and Kantega.
And why not tell her, while you are about it, that I have a tail with a point, and cloven hooves?
Its bulbous spider head only turned toward the sahuagin when a hurled trident landed in the sand next to a cloven metal hoof.
Great tufts feathered their cloven hooves, dung-spattered in the close confinement.
The coastline of Melikaphkhaz fell away astern, paled in the mists of distance, and was lost to sight, until only the square cloven outline of the Pashnemarthran islands broke the level horizon of the sea.
Where the coast turned eastward toward Sormiou—where she had cavorted with Aam long ago, where his large cloven hooves and her dainty ones had stirred the leaves as they danced—the sun was high overhead, because it was only weeks to the solstice.
Her tawny mane, which fell long and unruly down her back, was somewhat darker than her colcothar pubic hair, which matched that which sprinkled down her legs to her dainty cloven hooves.
Her shapely legs ended in cloven hooves, a slender barbed tail curling in her wake.
Before Fotsev could answer, a new and different rumble filled his hearing diaphragms: a great endless roar of cloven air.