[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

splay \splay\, v. t. abbrev. of display.
   1. to display; to spread. obs. "our ensigns splayed."
      --gascoigne.
      1913 webster

   2. to dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
      1913 webster

   3. to spay; to castrate. obs. or prov. eng.
      1913 webster

   4. to turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant,
      as the side of a door, window, etc. --oxf. gloss.
      1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

splay \splay\, a.
   displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly;
   as, splay shoulders.
   1913 webster

         sonwthing splay, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and
         infelicitous.                            --m. arnold.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

splay
     adj : turned outward in an ungainly manner; "splay knees"
     n : an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem
         larger
     v 1: spread open or apart; "he splayed his huge hands over the
          table"
     2: turn outward; "these birds can splay out their toes";
        "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
        syn: turn out, spread out, rotate
     3: move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial
        hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically" syn:
         dislocate, luxate, slip
see also:
turn out spread out rotate dislocate luxate slip 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

129 moby thesaurus words for "splay":
   aberrate, addition, adjunct, aggrandizement, ampliation,
   amplification, attenuation, augmentation, awkward, bestrew, branch,
   branch out, broadcast, broadcasting, broadening, circumfuse,
   circumfusion, crescendo, deal out, deltoid, deploy, deployment,
   diffract, diffraction, diffuse, diffusion, dilution, dispensation,
   dispense, dispersal, disperse, dispersion, dispread, disseminate,
   dissemination, dissipation, distribute, distribution, divaricate,
   diverge, divergence, divide, enlargement, evaporation, expand,
   expansion, extend, extension, fan, fan out, fan-shape, fan-shaped,
   fanlike, fanned, fanning, fanning out, flabelliform, flare, flared,
   flaring, fragmentation, gawky, go away, go off, hiking, increase,
   issue, lumbering, lumpish, magnification, open, open up, outspread,
   outstretch, outstretched, overgrow, overrun, overscatter, oversow,
   overspread, patulous, peppering, propagate, propagation,
   publication, publish, radiate, radiation, raising, ramify, retail,
   scatter, scattering, scatterment, separate, shotgun pattern, sow,
   sow broadcast, sowing, spattering, splayed, splaying, spraddle,
   spraddled, spraddling, sprangle, sprangled, sprangling, sprawl,
   sprawling, sprawly, spread, spread like wildfire, spread out,
   spreading, sprinkling, stretched-out, strew, strewing, unfold,
   unfolded, ungainly, upping, utter, volatilization, wide-open,
   widen, widening, widespread

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