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Vein :: Vein (n.) A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores..

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

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

Blower :: Blower (n.) A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.

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

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..

Chinky :: Chinky (a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.

Split :: Split (n.) A crack, or longitudinal 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..

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

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.

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

Crannied :: Crannied (a.) Having crannies, chinks, or fissures; as, a crannied wall..

Gape :: Gape (v. i.) To pen or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus..

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..

Eruption :: Eruption (n.) The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion..

Slide :: Slide (n.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.

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..

Scissure :: Scissure (n.) A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure..

Uranoplasty :: Uranoplasty (n.) The plastic operation for closing a fissure in the hard palate.

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