dĕ-hisco, hīvi (in the
* Inf. dehisse, v.the foll.), ĕre, v. n., to part, divide, go apart; to split open; to gape, to yawn (excepting once in Varr., not ante-Aug.): dehisse terram,Varr. L. L. 5, § 148 Müll.; so of the yawning earth,Verg. G. 1, 479; 3, 432; id. A. 4, 24 al.: unda dehiscens,id. ib. 1, 106: neque enim ante dehiscent Attonitae magna ora domus,id. ib. 6, 52: ex intervallo os paulum dehiscit,Cels. 7, 29 init.: cymba rimis,Ov. Tr. 5, 12, 27; cf.: navigium,springs aleak,Sen. Ep. 30: dehiscens intervallis acies,Liv. 29, 2: dehiscere ingentibus rimis,id. 91 Fragm. init.: rosa paullatim rubescens dehiscit ac sese pandit,Plin. 21, 4, 10, § 14; cf. ib. § 18 fin.: thynni pinguescunt in tantum ut dehiscant,burst open,id. 9, 15, 20, § 53.

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