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  1. 1. v. t. To display; to spread. Source: opted
  2. 2. v. t. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone. Source: opted
  3. 3. v. t. To spay; to castrate. Source: opted
  4. 4. v. t. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc. Source: opted
  5. 5. a. Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders. Source: opted
  6. 6. 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. Source: opted
  7. 7. adj. turned outward in an ungainly manner Source: wordnet
  8. 8. n. an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger Source: wordnet
  9. 9. v. spread open or apart Source: wordnet
  10. 10. v. turn outward Source: wordnet
  11. 11. v. move out of position Source: wordnet
  12. 12. 1. To display; to spread. [Obs.] "Our ensigns splayed." Gascoigne. 2. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone. 3. To spay; to castrate. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] 4. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc. Oxf. Gloss. Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders. Sonwthing splay, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous. M. Arnold. 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. Source: webster

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