splay

Meanings

Verb

• To spread; spread out.
• To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
• To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window etc.
• To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
• To spay; to castrate.

Adjective

• Spread out; turned outward.
• Flat and ungainly.

Noun

• A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.

Origin

• From Middle English splayen, an abbreviated form of Middle English displayen. More at display.