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

Chink :: Chink (v. t.) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.

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..

Crevice :: Crevice (n.) A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

Chink :: Chink (n.) A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall..

Rime :: Rime (n.) A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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