Category:Rift

Rift, obs.

Defn: p. p. of rive. Spenser.

Rift Rift, n. [written also reft.] Etym: [dan. rift, fr. rieve to rend. See rive.]

1. An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure. Spenser.

2. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

Rift Rift, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rifting.]

Defn: to cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to Rift the clouds. Longfellow. To dwell these rifted rocks between. Wordsworth.

Rift Rift, v. i.

1. To burst open; to split. Shak. Timber. . . not apt to rif with ordnance. Bacon.

2. To belch. [prov. Eng. & scot.]