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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fissuration :: Fissuration (n.) The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured.

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

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..

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

Hole :: Hole (n.) A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; 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..

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..

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

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..

Slickensides :: Slickensides (n.) The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another..

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