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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Flaw :: Flaw (n.) A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase..
Rime :: Rime (n.) A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.
Chinky :: Chinky (a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.
Case :: Case (n.) A small fissure which admits water to the workings.
Circumscissile :: Circumscissile (a.) Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.
Tear :: Tear (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; 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..
Limpet :: Limpet (n.) A keyhole limpet. See Fissurella.
Fissure :: Fissure (v. t.) To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.
Vein :: Vein (n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance..
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.
Stuff :: Stufa (n.) A jet of steam issuing from a fissure in the earth.
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..
Leak :: Leak (v.) A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe..
Shake :: Shake (n.) A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly..
Harelip :: Harelip (n.) A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare..
Fluework :: Fluework (n.) A general name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; -- in distinction from reedwork.
Crevice :: Crevice (n.) A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
Clifted :: Clifted (a.) Broken; fissured.
Rift :: Rift (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
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