Anagrams of: CLAVIES

• release ice

• give birth to (a calf)

• a coupler shaped like the letter U with holes through each end so a bolt or pin can pass through the holes to complete the coupling; used to attach a drawbar to a plow or wagon or trailer etc.

• short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent

• an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

• raise trivial objections

• a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)

• A percussion instrument, consisting of two sticks or blocks, in which one is struck against the other in order to produce a sound.

• To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.

• To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.

• To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.

• To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.

• To split.

• Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.

• To cling, adhere or stick fast to something; used with to or unto.

• A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave.

• Singular of claves

• an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

• raise trivial objections

• moral weakness

• a specific form of evildoing