1. (p. p) of Rive.

2. (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.

3. (n.) A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

4. (v. t.) To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.

5. (v. i.) To burst open; to split.

6. (v. i.) To belch.

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