Word Meanings - SPLAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To display; to spread. "Our ensigns splayed." Gascoigne. 2. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone. 3. 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. Oxf. Gloss.

Related words: (words related to SPLAY)

• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• GLOSSA
  The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
• GLOSSIST
  A writer of comments. Milton.
• SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
  Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
• GLOSSOLOGY
  1. The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary. 2. The science of language; comparative philology; linguistics; glottology.
• GLOSSARIAL
  Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary.
• GLOSSOLOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to glossology.
• GLOSSOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to glossography.
• SPLAYFOOT
  A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.
• GLOSSANTHRAX
  A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.
• OBLIQUENESS
  Quality or state of being oblique.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• SPLAYMOUTH
  A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
• SHOULDERED
  Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
• SHOULDER
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
• OBLIQUE
  An oblique line.
• DISLOCATE
  Dislocated. Montgomery.
• SLOPE
  1. An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another. 2. Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon. buildings
• SPREAD-EAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• CASTRATE
  1. To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter. 2. To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate. My . . . correspondent . . . has sent
• HUMP-SHOULDERED
  Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
• GYMNOGLOSSA
  A division of gastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth.
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• DISPREAD
  To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.
• DORMER; DORMER WINDOW
  A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.
• SACCOGLOSSA
  See PELLIBRANCHIATA