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- English Word Splice Definition A junction or joining made by splicing.
- English Word Spliced Definition of Splice
- English Word Splicing Definition of Splice
- English Word Spline Definition A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece.
- English Word Spline Definition A long, flexble piece of wood sometimes used as a ruler.
- English Word Splining Definition Of or pertaining to a spline.
- English Word Splint Definition A piece split off; a splinter.
- English Word Splint Definition A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set.
- English Word Splint Definition A splint bone.
- English Word Splint Definition A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
- English Word Splint Definition One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below.
- English Word Splint Definition Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent.
- English Word Splint Definition To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver.
- English Word Splint Definition To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2.
- English Word Splinted Definition of Splint
- English Word Splinter Definition To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
- English Word Splinter Definition To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
- English Word Splinter Definition To become split into long pieces.
- English Word Splinter Definition A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot.
- English Word Splintered Definition of Splinter
- English Word Splintering Definition of Splinter
- English Word Splinterproof Definition Proof against the splinters, or fragments, of bursting shells.
- English Word Splintery Definition Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral.
- English Word Splinting Definition of Splint
- English Word Split Definition of Split
- English Word Split Definition To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin.
- English Word Split Definition To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder.
- English Word Split Definition To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite.
- English Word Split Definition To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid.
- English Word Split Definition To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.