| 单词 | cloven beasts |
| 释义 | > as lemmascleft (or cloven) beasts b. Split or divided to a certain depth; bifurcate. cleft palate: a malformation of the palate, in which a longitudinal gap exists in the middle or on either side of the roof of the mouth. a cleft stick: a position in which advance and retreat are alike impossible, a dilemma, a fix. †cleft (or cloven) beasts: insects. Rarely in cleft hoof, cleft foot, where cloven is the ordinary word. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] > cloven hoof cloven hoofc1175 cleft foot1574 hoof1638 Clootie1786 Cloots1786 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > state of uncertainty, suspense > [noun] > dilemma a cleft stick1574 quandary?1576 dilemma1590 crotch1622 Morton's Fork1964 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > collectively cleft (or cloven) beasts1574 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [adjective] > divided by a cleft or notch clovec1400 cloven1526 cleft1574 bisulcous1646 bisulc1650 bifidous1657 bisulcated1657 bifid1661 bifidated1755 bisulcate1833 bifidate1847 the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > specific disorders or faults tongue-tiedness1598 plateasm1656 tongue-tying1762 paraphonia1772 lullaby-speech1822 cleft palate1847 paralalia1848 logoneurosis1857 zetacism1860 alogia1864 lallation1864 lambdacism1864 semi-mute1864 heterophemy1875 agrammatism1877 bradyphrasia1877 heterophasia1877 logopathy1877 paragraphia1877 paralexia1877 paraphasia1877 paraphrasia1877 verbigeration1877 recurring utterance1878 word blindness1878 word deafness1878 scanning1887 sigmatism1888 idioglossia1891 staccato utterance1898 word salad1904 palilalia1908 paragrammatism1924 idiolalia1930 dysprosody1947 Broca's aphasia1959 the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > cleft palate cleft palate1847 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > [noun] > ruminant > parts of > hoof cloven hoofc1175 cleft hoof1847 1574 T. Hill Ord. Bees i Plinie nameth Bees cleft beasts because of the division or parting betweene of the heade and shoulders. 1574 T. Hill Ord. Bees vi Of all cloven beasts the bees are principally to be cherished.] 1647 A. Cowley Not Fair in Mistress So men..Believe it fair..Till the cleft foot discovers all. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 45 Not steepy Pindus..Nor cleft Parnassus. 1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants Pref. 16 You may..stick your Candle in a Bottle..or in a cleft Stick. 1781 W. Cowper Let. 9 Dec. (1979) I. 555 We are squeezed to death between the two sides of that sort of alternative, which is commonly called a cleft stick. 1784 Reynolds in Leslie & Taylor Life (1865) II. viii. 458 I put him in a cleft stick. 1829 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. July 8 The other side are in a cleft stick; they cannot go on long as they are, and they cannot stir into any new path without demolishing the Corn Laws. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §254 The surfaces..are so flattened that the appearance is that of a single cleft hoof. 1847 J. F. South tr. Chelius Syst. Surg. I. 599 Cases of hare-lip and cleft-palate. 1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. xii. 505 Having..successfully treated a medical student for cleft palate. 1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. iii. §4. 98 A leaf..is said to be cleft, when the division is half way down or more, and the lobes or sinuses narrow or acute. 1895 Catal. Surg. Instruments (Arnold & Sons) 190 Cleft-palate knife..cleft-palate chisel. cloven beasts †cloven beasts n. insects (see cleft adj. b).extracted from clovenadj.n.< as lemmas |
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