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Fissurella :: Fissurella (n.) A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet..

Limpet :: Limpet (n.) A keyhole limpet. See Fissurella.

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..

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

Circumscissile :: Circumscissile (a.) Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.

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

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..

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

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

Fissural :: Fissural (a.) Pertaining to a fissure or fissures; as, the fissural pattern of a brain..

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..

Harelip :: Harelip (n.) A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare..

Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely..

Bord :: Bord (n.) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.

Rift :: Rift (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.

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

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

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..

Cranny :: Cranny (n.) A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance..

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