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Webster 1913 Edition


Splay

Splay

,
Verb.
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.

Splay

,
Adj.
Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly;
as,
splay
shoulders
.
Sonwthing
splay
, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous.
M. Arnold.

Splay

,
Adj.
(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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Splay

SPLAY

,
Verb.
T.
[See Display.]
1.
To dislocate or break a horses shoulder bone.
2.
To spread. [Little used.]

SPLAY

, for display. [Not in use.]

SPLAY

,
Adj.
Displayed; spread; turned outward.

Definition 2024


splay

splay

English

Verb

splay (third-person singular simple present splays, present participle splaying, simple past and past participle splayed)

  1. To display; to spread.
    • Gascoigne
      our ensigns splayed
  2. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
  3. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To spay; to castrate.
  4. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Oxf. Gloss to this entry?)
  5. (computing theory, transitive) To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.

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Adjective

splay (comparative more splay, superlative most splay)

  1. Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
    • M. Arnold
      Something splay, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous.

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Noun

splay (plural splays)

  1. A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.

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