Orifice

Definition of Orifice

Or´i`fice
n.1.A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound.
Etna was bored through the top with a monstrous orifice.
- Addison.

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aperture, broaching, cavity, chasm, check, clearing, cleft, crack, disclosure, fenestra, fistula, fontanel, foramen, gap, gape, gat, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, inlet, interval, lacuna, laying open, leak, opening up, outlet, passageway, pore, space, split, stoma, throwing open, uncorking, unstopping, yawn
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