Splay

[spleɪ] or [sple]

Definition

(noun.) an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger.

(verb.) spread open or apart; 'He splayed his huge hands over the table'.

(adj.) turned outward in an ungainly manner; 'splay knees' .

Editor: Myra--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To display; to spread.

(v. t.) To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.

(v. t.) To spay; to castrate.

(v. t.) To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.

(a.) Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.

(a.) 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.

Editor: Mamie

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. (Arch.) Slope (as the side of a window), slant.

Typed by Duane

Definition

v.t. (archit.) to slope or slant: to dislocate as the shoulder-bone.—adj. turned outward as in splay-foot awkward.—n. Splay′-foot a flat foot turned outward.—adj. Splay′-footed.—n. Splay′-mouth a wide mouth a mouth stretched out in grinning.—adj. Splay′-mouthed.

Typed by Lesley