In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
FISSURE
fissure
(noun) (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes
crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure
(noun) a long narrow opening
crevice, cranny, crack, fissure, chap
(noun) a long narrow depression in a surface
fissure
(verb) break into fissures or fine cracks
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
fissure (plural fissures)
A crack or opening, as in a rock.
(anatomy) A groove, deep furrow, elongated cleft, or tear; a sulcus.
Verb
fissure (third-person singular simple present fissures, present participle fissuring, simple past and past participle fissured)
To split, forming fissures.
Anagrams
• fussier, surfies
Source: Wiktionary
Fis"sure, n. Etym: [L. fissura, fr. findere, fissum, to cleave, split; akin to E. bite: cf. F. fissure.]
Definition: A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures (Anat.), the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole wall of the cerebrum.
– Fissure needle (Surg.), a spiral needle for catching together the gaping lips of wounds. Knight.
– Fissure of rolando (Anat.), the furrow separating the frontal from the parietal lobe in the cerebrum.
– Fissure of Sylvius (Anat.), a deep cerebral fissure separating the frontal from the temporal lobe. See Illust. under Brain.
– Fissure vein (Mining), a crack in the earth's surface filled with mineral matter. Raymond.
Fis"sure, v. t.
Definition: To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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