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Swiss canton of Uri, the perpendicular height of which is 
11,373 feet above the level of the sea. 
SPLANCHNO'LOGY, [splanchnologie, Fr.; a%\ay%ya. 
and Xoyoj, Gr.] A treatise on the viscera. 
SPLACHNUM [from the Gr. l7c\ayxvov, viscus ], in Bo¬ 
tany, a genus of the class cryptogamia, order musci.—Gene¬ 
ric Character. Capsule cylindrical, veil and receptacle very 
large; fringe with eight teeth. Male, a bud on a different 
plant; circular, terminating. 
In the systema vegetabilium six species only are enume¬ 
rated; in Dr. Witheriug’s arrangement twelve, chiefly from 
Iledwig. Two species are figured by Withering:—ampulla- 
ceum, in English Botany, flora danica, Dillenius, Vaillant, 
Morison and Buxbaum:—tenue, by Dickson. Formerly 
these were not distinguished from the bryums. 
To SPLASH, v. a. [plaska, Swedish.] To daub with 
dirt in great quantities. 
Then answer’d squire Morley, pray get a calash. 
That in summer may burn, and in winter may splash. 
Prior. 
SPLASH, s. Wet or dirt thrown up from a puddle, or 
the like. 
SPL A'SHY, adj. Full of dirty water; apt to daub. 
To SPLAY, v. a. To dislocate or break a horse’s shoulder 
bone. Unused. 
To SPLAY, v. a. For display. 
Each bush a bar, each spray a banner splayed. 
Each house a fort, our passage to have stayed. 
Mir. for Mag. 
SPLAY, adj. Displayed; spread; turned outward.—Her 
face and her splay foot have made her accused for a witch. 
Sidney. 
SPLA'FOOT, or Spla'yfooted, adj. Having the foot 
turned outward.—Sure I met no splea-footed baker. 
Machin. 
SPLA'YMOUTH, s. Mouth widened by design. 
Unused. 
All authors to their own defects are blind: 
Hadst thou but Janus-like a face behind, 
To see the people when splaynioutks they make, 
To mark their fingers pointed at thy back. 
Their tongues loll’d out a foot. Dry den. 
SPLEEN, s. The milt; one of the viscera. 
All envy’d ; but the Thestyan brethren show’d 
The least respect; and thus they vent their spleen aloud: 
Lay down those honour’d spoils. Dry den. 
A fit of anger. 
Charge not in your spleen a noble person, 
And spoil your nobler soul. Shakspeare. 
Inconstancy; caprice.—A mad-brain rudesby, full of 
spleen. Shalcspeare. —A sudden motion; a fit. 
Brief as the lightning in the collied night, 
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth; 
And, ere a man hath power to say. Behold ! 
The jaws of darkness do devour it up. Shalcspeare. 
Melancholy; hypochondriacal vapours. 
The spleen with sullen vapours clouds the brain, 
And binds the spirits in its heavy chain. 
Howe’er the cause fantastic may appear, 
Th’ effect is real, and the pain sincere. Blac/cmore. 
Spleen, vapours, and small-pox above them all. Pope .— 
Bodies chang’d to recent forms by spleen. Pope. —Whether 
idleness be the mother or the daughter of spleen ? Bp. 
Berkeley. 
SPLE'ENED, adj. Deprived of the spleen. — Animals 
spleened grow salacious. Arbuthnot. 
SPLE'ENFUL, adj. Angry; peevish; fretful; melan¬ 
choly. 
The commons, like an angry hive of bees 
That want their leader, scatter up and down ; 
Myself have calm’d their spleenful mutiny. Shalcspeare . 
The chearful soldiers, with new stores supply’d, 
Now long to execute their spleenful will. Dryden. 
If you drink tea upon a promontory that overhangs the 
sea, the whistling of the wind is better music to contented 
minds than the opera to the spleenful. Pope. 
SPLE'ENISH. See SpLEMsri. 
SPLE'ENLESS, adj. Kind; gentle; mild. Obsolete. 
Mean time flew our ships, and streight we fetcht 
The syren’s isle; a spleenless wind so stretcht 
Her wings to waft us, and so urg’d our keel. Chapman. 
SPLE'ENWORT, s. Milt waste. A plant, [asplenion, 
Lat.]—The leaves and fruit are like those of the fern; but 
the pinnulae are eared at their basis. Miller. 
Safe pass’d the gnome through this fantastick band, 
A branch of healing spleen-wort in his hand. Pope. 
SPLE'ENY, adj. Angry; peevish; 
The heart, and harbour’d thoughts of ill, make traitors. 
Not spleeny speeches. Beaum. and FI. 
SPLE'NDENT, adj. [splendens, Lat.] Shining; glossy; 
having lustre.—Metallic substances may, by reason of then- 
great density, reflect all the light incident upon them, and 
so be as opake and splendent as it is possible for any body 
to be. Newton. —Eminently conspicuous. 
SPLE'NDID, adj. [ splendide, Fr., splenclidus, Lat.] 
Showy; magnificent; sumptuous; pompous. 
Deep in a rich alcove the prince was laid. 
And slept beneath the pompous colonade: 
Fast by his side Pisistratus lay spread, 
In age his equal, on a splendid bed. Pope. 
SPLE'NDIDLY, ado. Magnificently; sumptuously; 
pompously. 
How he lives and eats. 
How largely gives, how splendidly he treats. Dryden. 
SPLE'NDOUR, s. [ splendor, Latin.]—Lustre; power 
of shining.— Splendour hath a degree of whiteness, especially 
if there be a little repercussion; for a looking-glass, with the 
steel behind, looketh whiter than glass simple. Bacon. — 
Magnificence; pomp. 
’Tis use alone that sanctifies expence, 
And splendour borrows all her rays from sense. Pope. 
SPLE'NDROUS, adj. Having splendour. Not in use. 
—Whose splendrous arms shone like a mighty flame. 
Drayton. 
SPLENE'TICAL, or Sple'netic, adj. [ splenetique, 
French.] Troubled with the spleen; fretful; peevish.—f 
have received much benefit touching my sp/enetical in¬ 
firmity. Wot ton. —Horace purged himself from these 
splenetick reflections in odes and epodes, before he under¬ 
took his satyrs. Dryden. 
SPLE'NETIC, s. A splenetic person.—This daughter 
silently lours; the other steals a kind look at you; a third is 
exactly well behaved ; and a fourth a splenetic. Tatler. 
SPLE'NICK, adj. [ splenique, Fr., splea, Lat.] Belong¬ 
ing to the spleen.—The splenick vein hath divers cells open¬ 
ing into it near its extremities in human bodies; but in 
quadrupeds the cells open into the trunks of the splenick 
veins. Ray. 
SPLE'NISH, adj. Fretful; peevish.—Luxury, pride, am¬ 
bition, rebellion, murder, the common and known fruits of 
fiery and sp/eenish tempers. Archd. Arnway. 
SPLE'NITIVE, adj. Hot; fiery; passionate. Not in 
use. 
Take thy fingers from my throat; 
For though I am not splenetive and rash, 
Yet I have in me something dangerous. Shakspeare. 
SPLENT, 
