vt. 展开, 张开, 使成八字形

vi. 伸展开

n. 展开

a. 八字形的, 倾斜的

Splay \Splay\, v. t. [Abbrev. of display.]
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.


Splay \Splay\, a.
Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly;
as, splay shoulders.

Sonwthing splay, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and
infelicitous. --M. Arnold.


Splay \Splay\, a. (Arch.)
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.