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Pronunciation : Splay
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [Abbrev. of display.]
Definition : 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.

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Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Splay
Part of Speech : a.
Definition : Defn: Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders. Sonwthing splay, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous. M. Arnold.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Splay
Part of Speech : a.
Definition : Defn: 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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Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913