Middle English Dictionary Entry
clōve(n ppl.
Entry Info
| Forms | clōve(n ppl. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. cleven v.(2).
1.
Split, parted; indented: cloven (hoof), cleft or lobed (leaf); dimpled (chin), cleft (lip); ?rutty (road).
Associated quotations
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)1224 : Oxe gaþ o clofenn fot.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)8.223 : His lippes semed i-clove [L fissa].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)62b/a : Foules wiþ clouen feet.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)209a/b : Some haueþ cloue and ragged leues.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)248a/b : An herbe wiþ rowȝ leues and fatte and y cloue.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)253b/b : Leues of þe vyne ben..cloue and ragged in þe vtter side.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)1957 : O beist has clouen fote in tua..ȝee ete o þaa.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)550 : A clove chynne eke hadde she.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)84b : Ȝif þou haddist on þyn oo side hul or see..or citee..or myre or clynged or clofen weies.
- c1450 Metham Physiog.(Gar 141)135/11 : A chyn the qwyche ys fouresqware, that ys named a clouyn chyn.
2.
Comps. (a) cloven-cropped, having a crease down the middle of the chest; (b) clove(n-fot, -fet, -foted, clof-foted, having divided hoofs; of birds: having feet with unwebbed toes.
Associated quotations
a
- c1500 Horse(3) (Hnt HU 1051)421 : A horse hath..vj [propretees] of a woman..well chered, fayr herede, well brestede, cloven croped, esy att sterop, and soft beryng.
b
- c1225 Wor.Bod.Gloss.(Hat 115)23 : Fiðerfote: cloffote.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)52a/a : Foules with toon and clawes todeled & ben cloffotid.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)62b/a : Eueryche beest wiþ longe..tuskes in þe mouþ is clouen footed.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)141b/a : Fiet of clouefeet foules be stronge and scharpe.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)266b/a : Eueryche beste þat haþ tweye hornes is clouefooted.
- (1415) EEWills23/18 : I woll that Isabell my wyfe haue..all cloue-fote bestes that I haue.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)80 : All maner of other clouen fote fowle.
- (1469) Will Bury in Camd.4946 : Also the goyng of hennys and fowlys clovefotyd.
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking (Hrl 2340:Halliwell)295 : Clove fotyd bryddes ben good to hawk while he fleith and meweth, as wodecoke, snyte, perterich, ffesaunt.
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking (Hrl 2340:Halliwell)296 : Loke what bryddes that bith cloverfoted [read: clovenfoted]..and not hole foted.