Cledgy

Tenacious; unyielding; stiff; as, a cledgy IMG:content-0219.png:[blocks in formation] fourth line. The C clef ( fig . 615) is a fifth below the G clef, and a fifth above the F clef. The C clef is also placed on the fourth line for some instruments, and for the tenor part in vocal music. Cleft, imp . and pp . of CLEAVE, q. v. Cleft, n. [From CLEAVE.] A space, aperture, or open- ing made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; a fi ure; a chink; as, a cleft in a rock. -A piece split off; as, a cleft of wood. (Farriery.) A disease in the form of a crack on a horse's pastern. (Bot.) When the incisions cut in the leaf extend to about the middle of the blade, or somewhat deeper, and especially if the sinuses are acute, the leaf is said to be cleft ( fig . 616); and the terms two cleft, three- cleft (or in the Latin form, bifid , trifid , .) designate the number of Fig. 616.-A CLEFT LEAP. the segments.