Definition of fissure

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

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Fissure :: Fissure (v. t.) To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.
Case :: Case (n.) A small fissure which admits water to the workings.
Limpet :: Limpet (n.) A keyhole limpet. See Fissurella.
Hole :: Hole (n.) A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure..
Contrafissure :: Contrafissure (n.) A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it..
Clifted :: Clifted (a.) Broken; fissured.
Rima :: Rima (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.
Chinky :: Chinky (a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.
Suleah Fish :: Sulcus (n.) A furrow; a groove; a fissure.
Stuff :: Stufa (n.) A jet of steam issuing from a fissure in the earth.
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely..
Crack :: Crack (n.) A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass..
Rake :: Rake (n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein..
Tear :: Tear (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure..
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..
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..
Harelip :: Harelip (n.) A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare..
Crevice :: Crevice (n.) A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
Cranny :: Cranny (n.) A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance..
Rime :: Rime (n.) A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.
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