The cok confesseth eiuynent cupide 
When lie his gemray tail begynneth gplay. 
Palladitu, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 23. 
To spleyen out hire leves on brede 
Ageyn the siiiinc. 
Lydgate, Complaint of the Black Knight, 1. 33. 
2. To dislocate, as a horse's shoulder. 3. Ill 
arch., to slope ; form with an oblique angle, as 
the jambs or sides of a window. See the noun. 
1. Spread; flare. 
By hammering in the corners of a bit, care should be 
taken to preserve the gplay throughout to the extremity, 
by properly inclining the face of the hammer. 
Morgans, Mining Tools, p. 49. 
2. In arch., a sloped surface, or a surface which 
makes an oblique angle with another, as when 
splash 5846 
gested by the appar. relation ofsmaali to mash 1 .} 
1. trans. 1. To spatter or bespatter, as with 
water, water and mud, or any other liquid. 
In carving a partridge, I splashed her with gravy from 
head to foot. Sydney Smith, To Francis Jeffrey, 1806. 
2. To dash or throw about in splotches: as, to 
njiliixk dirty water on one. 3. To accomplish 
with splashing or plashing. 
The stout, round-sterned little vessel ploughed and splay 1 (spla), n. [<niil/ni l r ~\ 
splashed its way up the Hudson, with great noise and lit- 
tie progress. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 179. 
4. To ornament with splashed decoration. =Syn 
1 and 2. Spill, etc. See slopi. 
II. iii trans. 1. To dabble or spatter about 
in water or other liquid ; dash or spatter water 
about. 
It is in knowledge as in swimming ; he who flounders 
and splaxhes on the surface makes more noise, and attracts 
more attention, than the pearl-diver who quietly dives in 
quest of treasures to the bottom. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 211. 
2. To fall with or make a plashing sound. 
The heavy burden splashed in the dark blue waters. 
Scott, Bob Boy, xxxi. 
Splashing fremitus, fremitus caused by succussiou. 
splash (splash), it. [< splash, v.} 1. Water or 
other liquid thrown upon anything. 2. A noise 
or effect as from water or mud thrown up or 
dashed about. 
The splash and stir 
Of fountains spouted up and showering down. 
Tennyson, Princess, i. 
3. A spot of dirt or other discoloring or dis- 
figuring matter; a blot; a daub. 
Her [Rachel's] very mode of writing is complex, nay, is 
careless, incondite ; with dashes and splashes, . . . with 
involutions, abruptnesses, whirls, and tortuosities. 
Carlyle, Varnhagen von Ense's Memoirs. 
4. A 
from 
spleenwort 
2. Ill humor; melancholy; low spirits. 
He affected to complain either of the Spleen or his 
Memory. Congreve, Way of the World, i. 6. 
Such [melancholic fancy] as now and then presents it- 
self to musing, thoughtful men, when their spirits are 
low, and the spleen hath gotten possession of them. 
Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. xii. 
3. Bad temper; anger; ill-will; malice; latent 
spite; grudge: as, to vent one's spleen; a tit of 
the spleen. 
A hare-brain'd Hotspur, govern 'd by a spleen. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., v. 
Plan of Portal of Notre Dame, Paris, s s j, Splays. 
the opening through a wall for a door or win- 
dow widens from the position of the door or 
window proper toward the face of the wall. A 
large chamfer is called a splay. 
Among the most marked of these [defects in design of 
facade of Kheims Cathedral] is the projection of the great 
portal jambs, with their archivolts, beyond the faces of the 
buttresses, and the continuation of the splays to the outer 
faces of the jambs, so that those of the adjoining portals 
almost meet in a sharp edge. 
2. 19. 
The Dauphin all this while, though outwardly having 
made a Reconciliation with the Duke of liurgoigne, yet 
inwardly bearing a Spleen against him, intended nothing 
so much as his Destruction. Baiter, Chronicles, p. 174. 
4f. A sudden impulse, fancy, or caprice; a 
whim. 
A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways. 
Shale., Venus and Adonis, 1. 907. 
5f. Mood; disposition. 
Haply my presence 
May well abate the over-merry spleen. 
Shale., T. of the S., Ind., i. 137. 
They [the Presbyterians] came to that Spleen at last 
that they would rather enthral themselves to the King 
again than admit their own Brethren to share in their 
Liberty. HlMoii, Ans. toSalmasius. 
In the apleent, in low spirits ; out of sorts ; in ill humor. 
On the spleen*, on the impulse of the moment; sud- 
denly ; impulsively. 
Wordes which seid are on Hie splene 
In faire langage peynted fill plesantlye. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 62. 
C. H. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 110. spleen (splen) V 
3. In fort., the outward widening of an embra- 
sure from the mouth toward the exterior of the 
^ ... ., [< spleen, n.} I. trans. I. 
To deprive of the spleen ; extirpate the spleen 
of. Animals subjected to this operation tend to become 
fat, and may live for an indefinite period apparently in 
perfect health. 
~ v..^ ^^^ U1 .. S , 00 UJi LUC urn* ui -, a - . -, - - . . Animals spleened grow salacious. Arbuthnot. 
horse, cow, or other animal. 5. A complexion- ' t, wide and flat; turned out ward; hence, 2f. To anger; annoy. Roger North, Examen, 
powder, generally the finest rice-flour, used by ' msy; awkward - See splay-foot, splay-mouth, p. 326. 3f. To dislike; hate. 
.. . _ parapet. See embrasure Splay cut, an inclined 
spot or plash of color strongly differing "Vo^l? 8 f-T "' rT y , bri f wo , rk b 
the surrounding color, as on the hide of a "Pf? * !l* p1 ^' ' Pfl*^*] Spread or spread- 
women to whiten their necks and faces. 6 A j In the Oerman mind, as in the German language, there 
shad h . SSMYnffi?^' """^ """""""^ 
Splash-board (splash bord), . A guard of M. Arnold, Literature and Dogma, Pref 
wood, or an iron frame covered with leather, splay^t (spla), r. t. [A var. of spayi. prob. by 
in front of a wheeled vehicle or a sleigh, to confusion with splay f] Same as spay S/mA 
protect the occupants from the splashing of the M for M ii 1 243 
' 
Sir T. Wentworth spleen'd the bishop for offering to 
bring his rival into favour. 
Bp. Uacket, Abp. Williams, II. 83. (Davies.) 
II. intrants. To have a loathing; become dis- 
gusted. [Rare.] 
It is fairly sickenin' ; I spleen at it. 
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horses' feet; a dash-board or dasher. The guard splayed (spiad), .' f< snlaul + -erf2 1 Hav , * ^ Coote, The Congregationalist, Jan. 1, 1886. 
placed over a wheel (on a passenger railroad-car, at the ,W Vsolav form solav Spleenativet, a. An obsolete form of splmi- 
ends of the steps to protect them from dirt thrown by the ' ,* ' five. 
wheels) is also sometimes called a splash-board. 
splash-inny. 
Also splayer (spla'er), . In tile-manuf., a segment 
of a cylinder used as a mold for curved tiles, as 
He filled the glass and put it on the splash-board of the ridge- or hip-tiles, drain-tiles, etc. 
W. Black, In far Lochaber, xix. splay-foot (spla'fut), . and o. [< splayl + 
splasher (splash'er), M. [< splash + -rl.] 1. foot.} I. n. A broad flat foot turned more or 
m, Or that which 8 P lasaes - Specifically less outward. A splay-foot may be only coarse or un- 
2. That which is splashed; a contrivance 
to receive splashes that would otherwise deface 
the thing protected, (a) A guard placed over loco- 
motive-wheels to protect persons on the engine or the 
. . n'ful), a. [< spleen + -ful.} Full 
of or displaying spleen ; angry ; peevish ; fret- 
ful; melancholy; hypochondriacal ; splenetic. 
Myself have calm'd their spleenful mutiny. 
Shot., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 2. 128. 
In a spleenful 
machinery from the wheels, or from wet or dirt throw 
up by them, (b) A guard over a wheel to prevent the 
sh 
a piay-iooi may oe only coarse or un- __|.. ^-ft-ii / ,- , t .,-, , 
.', but in extreme cases it amounts to the deformity SPleenrUlly (splen ful-l), adv. 
known as talipes valyus, a kind of clnbfoot. manner. 
II. , Having splay-feet; splay-footed. spleenish (sple'nish), a. 
Tho' still some traces of our rustic vein 
And splay-foot verse remain'd and will remain. 
Pope, Imitation of Horace, Epistle l 1. 
splashes from entering the vehicle, or to protect the gar- snliv-fnotpH (* >l'fVir'rl 
ments of the riders on entering, (c) A screen placed be- B P, la y 2^S? ) ? ,'i ' . l>arly mod - E - 
hind a wash-stand to protect the wall from water that &i so splea-footed ; as splay-foot + -t(fi.} Having 
m_ay be splashed. splay-feet. 
Salutes from a splay-footed witch, . . . 
Croaking of ravens, or the screech of owls, 
Are not so boding mischief. 
., [Formerly also, erro- 
neously, splenish; < spleen + -isAl.] Spleeny; 
affected with spleen ; arising from disordered 
spleen; ill-natured. 
Same as ,y>las)i- 
Nor 
ME. 
To rmf 
Dryden, tr. of Persius's Satires] i. 116. 
Babees Booh (E. E. T. s.), p. 266. splay-mouthed (spla'moutht), a. Having a 
splay-mouth ; making the mouth splay, as in a 
grimace. 
Splash- Wing (splash' wing), n. 
board. 
splashy (splash'i), a. [< splash + -yi.} Full 
of dirty water; wet; wet and muddy; plashy. 
Not far from hence is Sedgemore, a watry, splashy place 
Defoe, Tour through Great Britain, II. 34. (Danes.) 
splatt, v. t. [Early mod. E. splette; < 
splatten; a secondary form of split (?).] 
split ; splay ; extend ; spread out. 
Splatte that pyke. 
Pitche it not downwarde, 
. Me it not to flatte. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 48. 
(splat'er), v. i. and t. [Prob. a var. of 
spioi.j TO make a noise, as in dashing water 
about ; splash ; cast or scatter about. 
Dull prose-folk Latin splatter. 
Burns, To William Simpson. 
splatter-dash ( splat 'er-dash), w. An uproar- 
a bustle. [Colloq.] 
splatterdashes (splat'er-dash-ez), M. pi. Same 
as spatterdashes. 
splatter-faced (splat'er-fast), a. Broad- or flat- 
faced. 
Oh, lawk ! I declare I be all of a tremble 
My mind it misgives me about Sukey Wimble 
A splatter-faced wench, neither civil nor nimble ! 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, I. iv. (song), 
splayi (spla), v. t. [< ME. splayen, splaien, 
spleyen ; by apheresis from display : see dis- 
play.} If. To display; unfold; spread out; 
hence, to cut up; carve: as, to splay a fish 
But here yourselves you must engage 
Somewhat to cool your spleenish rage. 
Drayton, Nymphldia. 
spleenishly (sple'nish-li), adv. In a spleenish 
manner. Imp. Diet. 
spleenishness (sple'nish-nes), n. The state of 
spleenless (splen'les), 
- 
A spleenless wind so stretcht 
Her " 1188 to W8ft U8 " 
*" * 
Tom Brown, Works, II. 271. (Dames.) 
(splen), n. [< ME. splene, splen, < OF. 
esplen, esplein, esplain, esplien, esplene = It. 
splene, < L. splen, < Gr. trjrP.^v = L. lien (for orig. 
splien) = Skt. plihan (for orig. "splihan), the 
spleen.] 1. A non-glandular, highly vascular 
organ which is situated in the abdomen, on 
the left side, in connection with the digestive 
organs, and in which the blood undergoes cer- 
tain modifications in respect of its corpuscles. 
This viscus has no proper secretion and no excretory 
duct, and in these respects agrees with the thyroid, an' 
thymus, and adrenal bodies. In man the spleen is of an 61 
oblong flattened form, dark livid-red in color, soft and ' 
friable in texture, and extremely vascular. It lies in the *" 
left hypochondriac region, capping the cardiac end of the Spleen-stone 
stomach. The spleen has been supposed to be the seat (splen'ston), n 
of various emotions. Its enlargement or induration, un- Sari info'* n. 
der malarial poisoning, is known as aaue-calte. See cut ' , . J aae ol 
under pancreas. nephnte. 
I thought their spleens would break ; they laugh'd us all Spleenwort 
Out of the room. Beau, and Fl., Maid's Tragedy, iii. 2. (splen'wert), w. 
(splen'pulp), n. 
The proper sub- 
stance of the 
spleen, contain- 
ed in the areoles 
of the trabeeu- 
lar tissue of that 
organ, forming 
a soft mass of 
a dark reddish- 
brown color, like 
grumous blood. 
Also splenic pulp 
or tissue. 
leen-sickt, a. 
plenetic. Lev- 
ins. 
Spleenworts. 
I. frond of Aspleniumcbencutn; 2, fn 
of Aspltnium Adiantitm-nigntm ; 
frond of Aspltnium stpttntrionale. 
frond 
3. 
