Word Meanings - CLIFTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Broken; fissured. Climb the Andeclifted side. Grainger.

Related words: (words related to CLIFTED)

• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• 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
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• FISSURATION
  The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured.
• BROKEN
  1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. 2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. 3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained;
• BROKEN-WINDED
  Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.
• CLIMBABLE
  Capable of being climbed.
• BROKEN-BACKED
  Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship. Totten. (more info) 1. Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.
• FISSURAL
  Pertaining to a fissure or fissures; as, the fissural pattern of a brain.
• BROKEN-BELLIED
  Having a ruptured belly.
• BROKENNESS
  1. The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay. 2. Contrition; as, brokenness of heart.
• BROKENLY
  In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language. The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal. Cudworth.
• BROKEN-HEARTED
  Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay. Syn. -- Disconsolable; heart-broken; inconsolable; comfortless; woe- begone; forlorn.
• CLIMB
  To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. (more info) 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. 2. To ascend as if with
• CLIMBING
  p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb. Climbing fern. See under Fern. -- Climbing perch. See Anabas, and Labyrinthici.
• CLIMBER
  One who, or that which, climbs: A plant that climbs. A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot.
• FISSURELLA
  A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet.
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• OUTCLIMB
  To climb bevond; to surpass in climbing. Davenant.
• UNBROKEN
  Not broken; continuous; unsubdued; as, an unbroken colt.
• CONTRAFISSURE
  A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it. Coxe.
• UPCLIMB
  To climb up; to ascend. Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. Tennyson.
• WIND-BROKEN
  Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said