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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
bifurcated, bisected, branched, branching, chinky, cleft, cracked, cut, dehiscent, dichotomous, dimidiate, divided, fissured, fissury, forked, forking, gaping, gappy, halved, in pieces, in shreds, lacerate, lacerated, mangled, mutilated, quartered, ragged, ramified, rent, rift, rimose, rimulose, riven, severed, shredded, slit, splintered, split, tattered, torn
Dictionary Results for cloven:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
cloven
    adj 1: (used of hooves) split, divided; "bisulcate hoof" [syn:
           cloven, bisulcate]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Cloven \Clo"ven\ (kl[=o]"v'n), p. p. & a.
   from Cleave, v. t.
   [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [1913 Webster] Cloven-footed
3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.]
   1. To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut.
      [1913 Webster]

            O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain. --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To part or open naturally; to divide.
      [1913 Webster]

            Every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the
            cleft into two claws.                 --Deut. xiv.
                                                  6.
      [1913 Webster]
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