Dictionary![]() ![]() splayPronunciation: (splā), [key] —v.t. 1. to spread out, expand, or extend. 2. to form with an oblique angle; make slanting; bevel. 3. to make with a splay or splays. 4. to disjoin; dislocate. —v.i. 1. to have an oblique or slanting direction. 2. to spread or flare. —n. Archit.a surface that makes an oblique angle with another, as where the opening through a wall for a window or door widens from the window or door proper toward the face of the wall. —adj. 1. spread out; wide and flat; turned outward. 2. clumsy or awkward. 3. oblique or awry. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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