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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Splay \Splay\, v. t. [Abbrev. of display.]
1. To display; to spread. [Obs.] "Our ensigns splayed."
--Gascoigne.
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2. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
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3. To spay; to castrate. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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4. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant,
as the side of a door, window, etc. --Oxf. Gloss.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Splay \Splay\, a.
Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly;
as, splay shoulders.
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Sonwthing splay, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and
infelicitous. --M. Arnold.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
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WordNet 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";
"ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
[syn: turn out, spread out, rotate]
3: move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial
hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically" [syn:
dislocate, luxate, slip]

Moby Dictionary
aberrate , addition , adjunct , aggrandizement , ampliation ,
amplification , attenuation , augmentation , awkward , bestrew , branch ,
branch out , broadcast , broadcasting , broadening , circumfuse ,
circumfusion , crescendo , deal out , deltoid , deploy , deployment ,
diffract , diffraction , diffuse , diffusion , dilution , dispensation ,
dispense , dispersal , disperse , dispersion , dispread , disseminate ,
dissemination , dissipation , distribute , distribution , divaricate ,
diverge , divergence , divide , enlargement , evaporation , expand ,
expansion , extend , extension , fan , fan out , fan-shape , fan-shaped ,
fanlike , fanned , fanning , fanning out , flabelliform , flare , flared ,
flaring , fragmentation , gawky , go away , go off , hiking , increase ,
issue , lumbering , lumpish , magnification , open , open up , outspread ,
outstretch , outstretched , overgrow , overrun , overscatter , oversow ,
overspread , patulous , peppering , propagate , propagation ,
publication , publish , radiate , radiation , raising , ramify , retail ,
scatter , scattering , scatterment , separate , shotgun pattern , sow ,
sow broadcast , sowing , spattering , splayed , splaying , spraddle ,
spraddled , spraddling , sprangle , sprangled , sprangling , sprawl ,
sprawling , sprawly , spread , spread like wildfire , spread out ,
spreading , sprinkling , stretched-out , strew , strewing , unfold ,
unfolded , ungainly , upping , utter , volatilization , wide-open ,
widen , widening , widespread