Dehisco, dehiscis, dehiscere. To gape or open by it selfe: to cleaue as a tree doth: to chincke or chappe as the grounde doth: to burste.Rictus animalis dehiscens ad aures. Plinius. The gaping of a beastes mouth opening euen harde to his eares.Dehiscunt quidam pisces præ pinguedine. Plinius. Certaine fishes burst with fatnesse.Aequor dehiscit.Virg.The sea gapeth.Dehiscit arbor. Cato. The tree chappeth.Cælum media regione dehiscit. Ouidi, The skie openethor goeth asunder.Cymba rimis debiscit.Ouid.The boate chincketh.Dehiscit rosa. Plin. The rose openeth or spreadeth.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
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,