Definition of fissure

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Fissure (n.) A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock..

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Cranny :: Cranny (n.) A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance..
Slit :: Slit (n.) To cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose..
Obturator :: Obturator (n.) An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate..
Bord :: Bord (n.) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.
Harelip :: Harelip (n.) A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare..
Rime :: Rime (n.) A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.
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..
Slide :: Slide (n.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
Feeder :: Feeder (n.) A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower.
Scissure :: Scissure (n.) A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure..
Chinky :: Chinky (a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.
Leak :: Leak (v.) A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe..
Fissural :: Fissural (a.) Pertaining to a fissure or fissures; as, the fissural pattern of a brain..
Fissure :: Fissure (v. t.) To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.
Shake :: Shake (n.) A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly..
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..
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.
Rima :: Rima (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.
Clifted :: Clifted (a.) Broken; fissured.
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