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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Suleah Fish :: Sulcus (n.) A furrow; a groove; a fissure.

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..

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..

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

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

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..

Contrafissure :: Contrafissure (n.) A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it..

Vein :: Vein (n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance..

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

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

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

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