Pronunciation : Rift
Part of Speech : obs.
Definition : Defn: p. p. of Rive. Spenser.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Rift
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Dan. rift, fr. rieve to rend. See Rive.]
Definition : 1. An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure. Spenser.
2. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
[Written also reft.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Rift
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 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.
t. [imp. & p. p. Rifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rifting.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Rift
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 1. To burst open; to split. Shak. Timber . . . not apt to rif with ordnance. Bacon.
2. To belch. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913