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Scissure

Scissure \Scis"sure\, n. [L. scissura, from scindere, scissum, to cut, split.] A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.
--Hammond.

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scissure

n. A longitudinal opening made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.

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scissure

n. a long narrow opening [syn: crack, cleft, crevice, fissure]

Usage examples of "scissure".

Its energies poured into the sensory scissures of my being, but I gripped and contained them.

A climb and a surge, a leap through the scissure in space, out into the known, beautiful, empty universe.