Available Definitions:
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.