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

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..

Uranoplasty :: Uranoplasty (n.) The plastic operation for closing a fissure in the hard palate.

Shake :: Shake (n.) A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly..

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..

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.

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

Eruption :: Eruption (n.) The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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