splatter faced

Broad or flat-faced. splāy (1), *splaye, v. t. [A contract. of display (q. v.).] *I. Ordinary Language: 1. To display, to expand, to unfold, to spread. "To splay out hir leves in brede." Lydgate: Complaint of Black Knight. 2. To carve; to cut up. " Splaye that breme." -Babees Boke , p. 265. 3. To dislocate or break a horse's shoulder-bone. II. Arch.: Τo slope; to form with an oblique angle, as the joints or sides of a window. [SPLAY, subst .] To spay, to castrate. *splay (2), *splaie, v. t. [Prob. for spay (q. v.).] "Sowes also are splaied as well as camels, but two daies before, they be kept from meat." -P. Holland: Pliny, bk. viii., ch. li. splāy (3), v . t . [Etym. doubtful.] After two pieces of cloth have been run up in a seam, to sew down the edges somewhat in the form of a hem. ( Scotch .) splāy, s. & a. [SPLAY (1), υ.] A. As substantive : A. Transitive : IMG:content-0059.png:[blocks in formation] "The doublers of a hare, or in a morning Salutes from a splay - footed witch." Ford: Broken Heart , v. i. splay-mouth, subst . A wide mouth; a mouth stretched wide on purpose; a grimace. "Hadst thou but, Janus like, a face behind, spleeny splāy'-er, s. [Eng.splay; -er.] Tile- making : A segment of a cylinder on which a molded tile is pre ed to give it a curved shape, for a pantile, ridge or hip tile, gutter or drain tile. spleen, *splen, s. [Lat. splen , from Gr. splēn = the spleen; Sansc. plihan , plihan .] I. Ordinary Language : 1. Lit.: In the same sense as II. 2. Figuratively: humor. (1) Anger; latent spite or ill-will; malice; ill "I have no spleen against you." Shakesp.: Henry VIII., ii. 4. *(2) A fit of pa ion or anger. "Hair-brain'd Hotspur, governed by a spleen." Shakesp.: Henry IV ., Pt . I., v. 2. *(3) Heat, fire, impetuosity, ardor, eagerne . "A brook, where Adon used to cool his spleen." Shakesp.: Pa ionate Pilgrim , 76. fits and starts. *(4) A caprice, a whim; a disposition acting by "A you sand spleens bear her a you sand ways." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis , 907. *(5) A sudden motion or impulse. "Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen unfolds both heav'n and earth." Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, i. 1. *(6) A fit of laughter; immoderate merriment. "Abate their over-merry spleen." Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew (Ind. i.). (7) Melancholy, hypochondria, low spirits. "We have long been characterized as a nation of spleen, and our rivals on the Continent as a land of levity." Goldsmith: Polite Learning, ch. vii. II. Anat .: A soft, highly vascular, and easily distensible organ, situated in the left hypochondrium, between the cardiac end of the stomach and the diaphragm. Its length is about five inches, its breadth about three, its weight about six ounces. After a meal it increases in size for a time, reaching its maximum about five hours after food has been taken. In fever and ague it is enlarged, and in prolonged ague it is permanently hypertrophied. Its use is unknown. It occurs only in the Vertebrates, and can be removed without any obvious changes taking place in the animal economy. There are also acce ory or supplementary spleens. They are small, detached, rounded nodules. spleen-gangrene, s . [QUARTER-EVIL.] *spleen, v . t . [SPLEEN, 8.] 1. To deprive of the spleen. "Animals spleened grow salacious." -Arbuthnot. 2. To dislike. "Sir T. Went worth spleened the bishop." -Hacket : Life of Williams, ii. 83. 3. To annoy. "The author Examen , p. 326. is manifestly spleened."-North: spleen-a-tive, spleēn-1-tive, a. [SPLENITIVE.] spleě-nět-ic, a. [SPLENETIC.] spleen-fûl, *spleene-ful, a . [English spleen ; -ful(l).] Full of or displaying spleen; angry, peevish, hot, eager, impetuous. "And let my spleenful sons this trull deflower." Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus, ii. 3. a spleenful manner. *spleen-fül-ly, adv. [Eng. spleenful; -ly.] In spleen-ish, a . [Eng. spleen ; -ish .] Affected with spleen; spleenful, spleeny. "When spleenish morsels cram the gaping maw, Withouten diets care or trencher law." Bp. Hall: Satires , iv. 4. spleen-ish-ly, adv . [Eng. spleenish ; -ly.] In a spleenish manner; spleenfully. spleen-Ish-ne , subst . [Eng. spleenish; -ne .] The quality or state of being spleenish; spleen. spleen-le , *spleene-le e, a. [Eng. spleen; -le . Having no spleen; hence, kind, favorable, gentle, mild. "A spleenele e wind, so stretcht Her wings to waft vs, and so vrg'd our keele." Chapman: Homer's Ody ey, xii. spleen-wõrt, subst . [Eng. spleen , and wort . The species to which the name was first applied was supposed to be good for the spleen because its lobular leaves resembled that organ in shape.] Bot.: Asplenium ceterach and the genus Asplenium. spleen-ỹ, a. [Eng.spleen;-y.] 1. Full of or characterized by spleen; angry, peevish, fretful, ill-tempered. 2. Eager, headstrong, impetuous. "I know her for A spleeny Luther an, and not wholesome to Our cause." Shakesp.: Henry VIII., iii. 2. 3. Melancholy; affected with nervous complaints. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-0060.png:[blocks in formation] Drayton: Moses , iii. splěn-did-ly, adv . [Eng. splendid ; -ly .] In a splendid manner; magnificently, sumptuously, gorgeously, grandly, brilliantly. "The amba ador was splendidly entertained by the Duke of Orleans at St. Cloud, and by the Dauphin at Meudon."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xxiii. splen-did-ne , s . [Eng. splendid; -ne .] The quality or state of being splendid; splendor, magnificence, gorgeousne , brilliancy. "Their liveries, whose gaudine evinces not the foot. man's deserts, but his lord's splendidne , and in men's esteem entitles the lacquey to nothing but a good master."-Boyle: Works, vi. 18. *splěn'-did-ous, adj . [Eng. splendid; -ous.] Splendid. "By their splendidous liberalities."- Ben Jonson: Fox, ii. 1. splen-dif-er-ous, a. [Lat. splendid us splendid, and fero = to bring.] Splendid, splendor bearing. "O... daye most splendiferous ." Bale: Interlude of Johan Baptist (1538).