Cleave: alternatives and connections

To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

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To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

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To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

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To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

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That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a m…

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That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a m…

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To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.

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To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.

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of Split

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A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.

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A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.

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To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.

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A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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Created; composed; begotten.

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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…

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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.

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Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance.

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Consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.

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A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.

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A spot; a blemish; a mole.

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Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

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The act of cleaving or splitting.

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The act of cleaving or splitting.

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of Cleave

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of Cleave

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To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.

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To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

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To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually foll…

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To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.

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To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.

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of Split

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A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.

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