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Fission :: Fission (n.) A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts..

Wedge :: Wedge (n.) A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical..

Hairsplitting :: Hairsplitting (a.) Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle.

Ferrule :: Ferrule (n.) A ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing..

Slaty :: Slaty (a.) Resembling slate; having the nature, appearance, or properties, of slate; composed of thin parallel plates, capable of being separated by splitting; as, a slaty color or texture..

Crossgrained :: Crossgrained (a.) Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing..

Hairsplitting :: Hairsplitting (n.) The act or practice of making trivial distinctions.

Enterocoele :: Enterocoele (n.) A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo..

Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock..

Frowey :: Frowey (a.) Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber..

Cleavage :: Cleavage (n.) The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting..

Micaceous :: Micaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, mica; splitting into laminae or leaves like mica..

Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood..

Split :: Split (n.) A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment..

Sheepsplit :: Sheepsplit (n.) A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.

Skiver :: Skiver (n.) The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins, as sheepskins..

Quill :: Quill (n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill..

Frow :: Frow (n.) A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower..

Felting :: Felting (n.) The act of splitting timber by the felt grain.

Kipper :: Kipper (v. t.) To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking..

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