dĕ-hisco — Lewis & Short
dĕ-hisco, hīvi (in the
I 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.