In the 2000s Briers was the curmudgeonly and extravagant father Hector MacDonald in the BBC television programme Monarch of the Glen (2000-05), appearing in series 1,2,3 & 7. He appeared in other programmes, see Later Career.
(mal'Ä-Ä-bÄl) Capable of being shaped by being beaten or by pressure; a property of certain metals such as gold and silver. [L. malleus, a hammer] susceptible of being beaten out into a thin plate. malleable retractor.
[kleev] /kliv/. verb (used with object), cleft or cleaved or clove, cleft or cleaved or cloven, cleaving. 1. to split or divide by or as if by a cutting blow, especially along a natural line of division, as the grain of wood. 2. to make by or as if by cutting: to cleave a path through the wilderness.