a. (and sb.) Obs. Also 7 bisulk(e. [ad. L. bisulcus two-furrowed, two-cleft, f. bi- two + sulcus furrow.] A. adj. Cleft in two; spec. having a cloven hoof. B. quasi-sb. A cloven-hoofed animal.
1650. Bulwer, Anthropomet., xiv. 142. The tongue of man is not double, or trisulke or bisulke.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min. Those that are horned, are commonly bisulks.
1693. Phil. Trans., XVII. 850. The Cloven-hoof’d are either Bisulc … or Quadrisulc.
So Bisulcate, Bisulcated, Bisulcous a., in same sense.
1833. Lyell, Elem. Geol., xvi. (1874), 256. Tracks of the Anoplotherium with its bisulcate hoof.
1839–47. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., III. 241/2. Feet bisulcate.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 468. A Scorpion hath … arms and fore-cleyes bisulcated.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. xxv. § 5. 175. The Swine … being bisulcous … is farrowed with open eyes as other bisulcous animals.
