unˈcloven, ppl. a.
(un-1 8 b. Cf. MDu. ongecloven, MSw. oclyffvin, Sw. oklufven.)
| 1620 Fletcher Chances ii. i, My skull's uncloven yet, let me but kill. 1725 Fam. Dict. s.v. Animal, There are those that are cloven-footed; as black Cattle; or uncloven, as Horses. 1842 Borrow Bible in Spain v, They will not partake of the beast of the uncloven foot. 1893 Swinburne Stud. Prose & Poetry (1894) 290 A sea uncloven by the share or by the prow of an adventurer in verse. |