Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Splay"
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) 1.7 (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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