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

Parting :: Parting (n.) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam..

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..

Lava :: Lava (n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States..

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

Obturator :: Obturator (n.) An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate..

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

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..

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

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

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

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