Definition of fissure

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

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Limpet :: Limpet (n.) A keyhole limpet. See Fissurella.
Tear :: Tear (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure..
Rake :: Rake (n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein..
Crevice :: Crevice (n.) A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
Rimose :: Rimose (a.) Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks..
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..
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..
Chinky :: Chinky (a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.
Bord :: Bord (n.) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.
Slit :: Slit (n.) To cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose..
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..
Rime :: Rime (n.) A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.
Circumscissile :: Circumscissile (a.) Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.
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.
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..
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 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..
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..
Case :: Case (n.) A small fissure which admits water to the workings.
Feeder :: Feeder (n.) A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower.
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