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Splint :: Splint (v. t.) To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver..

Shide :: Shide (n.) A thin board; a billet of wood; a splinter.

Split :: Split (n.) A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment..

Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A splint bone.

Flinders :: Flinders (n. pl.) Small pieces or splinters; fragments.

Splinterproof :: Splinter (n.) A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot..

Shatter :: Shatter (v. t.) To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning..

Splintery :: Splinterproof (a.) Proof against the splinters, or fragments, of bursting shells..

Extract :: Extract (v. t.) To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger..

Immobilize :: Immobilize (v. t.) To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages..

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..

Splinting :: Splinted (imp. & p. p.) of Splin.

Exfoliate :: Exfoliate (v. t.) To remove scales, laminae, or splinters from the surface of..

Splint :: Splinting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splin.

Splinter :: Splinter (n.) To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree..

Splinter :: Splintering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splinte.

Match :: Match (n.) Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium..

Splinter :: Splinter (v. i.) To become split into long pieces.

Splint :: 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..

Shiver :: Shiver (n.) One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural..

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