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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A divided or cleft hoof, as in deer or cattle.
- noun Evil or Satan, often depicted as a figure with cleft hooves.
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- noun A
divided hoof, as onbovine animals. - noun The
mark of theDevil .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the mark of Satan
- noun a hoof divided into two parts at its distal extremity (as of ruminants or swine)
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