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Shake :: Shake (n.) A fissure in rock or earth.

Slit :: Slit (n.) To cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose..

Lava :: Lava (n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States..

Feeder :: Feeder (n.) A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower.

Clifted :: Clifted (a.) Broken; fissured.

Crevasse :: Crevasse (n.) A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided..

Suleah Fish :: Sulcus (n.) A furrow; a groove; a fissure.

Chasm :: Chasm (n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure..

Fissure :: Fissure (n.) A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock..

Rima :: Rima (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.

Falx :: Falx (n.) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain..

Zygobranchia :: Zygobranchia (n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods in which the gills are developed on both sides of the body and the renal organs are also paired. The abalone (Haliotis) and the keyhole limpet (Fissurella) are examples.

Case :: Case (n.) A small fissure which admits water to the workings.

Vein :: Vein (n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance..

Fissure :: Fissure (v. t.) To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.

Leak :: Leak (v.) The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps..

Rimose :: Rimose (a.) Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks..

Rake :: Rake (n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein..

Elephantiasis :: Elephantiasis (n.) A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide..

Dike :: Dike (n.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata..

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