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FIS'SILE, a. [L. fissilis, from fissus, divided, from findo, to split.] That may be split, cleft or divided in the direction of the grain, or of natural joints. This crystal is a pellucid fissile stone.
fissile appears in definitions for these words: Beet-raveFissile