p. p. of Rive. Spenser.
1. An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure. Spenser. 2. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
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.
1. To burst open; to split. Shak. Timber . . . not apt to rif with ordnance. Bacon. 2. ...
