splash (splash)

[A var. of plash1, with unorig. s, regarded as intensive; perhaps sug The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary splashed its way up the Hudson, with great noise and lit- tle progre . Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 179. 4. To ornament with splashed decoration.=Syn. 1 and 2. Spill , etc. See slop1 . 2. To fall with or make a plashing sound. The heavy burden splashed in the dark blue waters. Scott , Rob Roy, xxx i. IMG:content-1788.png:[blocks in formation] 5846 The cok confe eth emynent cupide When he his gemmy tail begynneth splay . Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 23. To spleyen out hire leves on brede Ageyn the sunne. 2. In arch ., a sloped surface, or a surface which makes an oblique angle with another, as when IMG:content-1789.png:[blocks in formation] the opening through a wall for a door or win- dow widens from the position of the door or window proper toward the face of the wall. A large chamfer is called a splay. Among the most marked of these [defects in design of façade of Rheims Cathedral) is the projection of the great portal jambs, with their archivolts, beyond the faces of the buttre es, and the continuation of the splays to the outer faces of the jambs, so that those of the adjoining portals almost meet in a sharp edge. C. H. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 110. 3. In fort ., the outward widening of an embra- sure from the mouth toward the exterior of the parapet. See embrasure . - Splay cut, an inclined cut on the edges of fancy brickwork. splayl (splā), a. [ splay1 , v .] Spread or spread- ing out; wide and flat; turned outward; hence, 2. Ill humor; melancholy; low spirits. He affected to complain either of the Spleen or his Memory. Congreve, Way of the World, i. 6. Such [melancholic fancy) as now and then presents it- self to musing, thoughtful men, when their spirits are low, and the spleen hath gotten po e ion of them. 3. Bad temper; anger; ill-will; malice; latent the spleen . spite; grudge: as, to vent one's spleen ; a fit of A hare-brain'd Hotspur, govern'd by a spleen . Shak., 1 Hen. IV., v. 2. 19. The Dauphin all this while, though outwardly having Reconciliation with the Duke Burgoigne, A you sand spleens bear her a you sand ways. Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 907. IMG:content-1790.png:[blocks in formation] In the spleent, in low spirits; out of sorts; in ill humor. -On the spleent, on the impulse of the moment; sud- denly; impulsively. Wordes which seid are on the splene, Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 62. splay2+ (splā), v. t . [A var. of spay1 , prob. by confusion with splay1 .] Same as spay . Shak., M. for M., ii. 1. 243. splayed (splād), a. [ splay1 + -ed2.] Hav- ing a splay form; splay. splayer (splā'er), п. In tile - manuf ., a segment of a cylinder used as a mold for curved tiles, as ridge or hip-tiles, drain-tiles, etc. splay-foot (splā'fut), n. and a. foot .] I. n. A broad flat foot turned more or le outward. A splay-foot may be only coarse or un- comely, but in extreme cases it amounts to the deformity Croaking of ravens, or the screech of owls, Are not so boding mischief. Not far from hence is Sedge more, a watry, splashy place. Defoe , Tour through Great Britain, II. 34. (Davies.) splatt, v. t. [Early mod. E. splette ; split (?).] Το split; splay; extend; spread out. Splatte that pyke. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 265. Pitche it not downwarde, splatter-faced (splat'er-fast), a . Broad-or flat- faced. Oh, lawk! I declare I be all of a tremble; My mind it misgives me about Sukey Wimble, A splatter - faced wench, neither civil nor nimble! or wide mouth; also, the mouth stretched wide in a grin or grimace. To see the people what splay - mouths they make. Dryden, tr. of Persius's Satires, i. 116. splay-mouthed (splā'moutht), a. Having a splay-mouth; making the mouth splay, as in a grimace. only do it to improve in natural philosophy. These solemn, splay - mouth'd gentlemen, Madam, says I, Tom Brown , Works, II. 271. ( Davies .) IMG:content-1791.png:[blocks in formation] spleen-pulp (splēn pulp), п. stance of the The proper sub- spleen, contain- ed in the areoles of the trabecu- lar ti ue of that Skt. plihan (for orig. * splihan ), the organ, forming a soft ma of a dark reddish- brown color, like grumous blood. spleen (splen), n. [ esplene = It. splene , splen , lien (for orig. * splien ) spleen.] 1. A non-glandular, highly vascular organ which is situated in the abdomen, on the left side, in connection with the digestive organs, and in which the blood undergoes cer- tain modifications in respect of its corpuscles. Also splenic pulp This viscus has no proper secretion and no excretory duct, and in these respects agrees with the thyroid, spleen-sickt, a. thymus, and adrenal bodies. In man the spleen is of an oblong flattened form, dark livid-red in color, soft and friable in texture, and extremely vascular. It lies in the left hypochondriac region, capping the cardiac end of the stomach. The spleen has been supposed to be the seat of various emotions. Its enlargement or induration, un- der malarial poisoning, is known as ague - cake . See cut under pancreas . I thought their spleens would break; they laugh'd us all Out of the room. IMG:content-1792.png:[blocks in formation] spleenwort 5847 spleenwort is A. ebeneum; the maidenhair spleenwort is A. Tri cho manes; the wall-rue spleenwort is A. Ruta - mu raria.