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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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..

Zygobranchia :: Zygobranchia (n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods in which the gills are developed on both sides of the body and the renal organs are also paired. The abalone (Haliotis) and the keyhole limpet (Fissurella) are examples.

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..

Stuff :: Stufa (n.) A jet of steam issuing from a fissure in the earth.

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..

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.

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