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splay |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Splay \Splay\, a. (Arch.) A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other or larger at each of the faces than it is between them From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Splay \Splay\, v. t. [Abbrev. of display.] 1. To display; to spread. [Obs.] ``Our ensigns splayed.'' --Gascoigne. 2. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone. 3. To spay; to castrate. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] 4. To turn on one side to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc --Oxf. Gloss. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Splay \Splay\, a. Displayed; spread out turned outward; hence flat; ungainly; as splay shoulders. Sonwthing splay, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous. --M. Arnold. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: splay adj : turned outward in an ungainly manner; "splay knees" n : an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger v 1: spread open or apart; "He splayed his huge hands over the table" 2: turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes" [syn: {turn out}, {spread out}] 3: move out of position; "dislocate joints" [syn: {dislocate}, {slip}]
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