Definition of splint

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Splint (v. t.) A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set..

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Garreting :: Garreting (n.) Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.
Splinted :: Splint (v. t.) Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent..
Spill :: Spill (n.) A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
Flinders :: Flinders (n. pl.) Small pieces or splinters; fragments.
Shide :: Shide (n.) A thin board; a billet of wood; a splinter.
Splintering :: Splintered (imp. & p. p.) of Splinte.
Splintery :: Splinterproof (a.) Proof against the splinters, or fragments, of bursting shells..
Shiver :: Shiver (v. t.) To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet..
Split :: Splintery (a.) Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral..
Basket :: Basket (n.) A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven..
Splint :: Splint (v. t.) To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver..
Spawl :: Spawl (n.) A splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. See Spall..
Exfoliate :: Exfoliate (v. t.) To remove scales, laminae, or splinters from the surface of..
Pyrrol :: Pyrrol (n.) A nitrogenous base found in coal tar, bone oil, and other distillates of organic substances, and also produced synthetically as a colorless liquid, C4H5N, having on odor like that of chloroform. It is the nucleus and origin of a large number of derivatives. So called because it colors a splinter of wood moistened with hydrochloric acid a deep red..
Splinter :: Splintering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splinte.
Splintered :: Splint (v. t.) To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2..
Scagliola :: Scagliola (n.) An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished..
Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence..
Splint :: Splint (v. t.) One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below..
Rankle :: Rankle (a.) To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom..
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