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Bord :: Bord (n.) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.

Chink :: Chink (v. t.) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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

Split :: Split (n.) A crack, or longitudinal fissure..

Vein :: Vein (n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance..

Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely..

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.

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

Fissuration :: Fissuration (n.) The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured.

Contrafissure :: Contrafissure (n.) A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it..

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..

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

Crannied :: Crannied (a.) Having crannies, chinks, or fissures; as, a crannied wall..

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