Definition of splint

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Splint (v. t.) One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below..

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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..
Spawl :: Spawl (n.) A splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. See Spall..
Splinter :: Splinter (n.) To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree..
Split :: Splintery (a.) Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral..
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..
Spill :: Spill (n.) A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
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..
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..
Flinders :: Flinders (n. pl.) Small pieces or splinters; fragments.
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..
Shide :: Shide (n.) A thin board; a billet of wood; a splinter.
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..
Exfoliate :: Exfoliate (v. t.) To remove scales, laminae, or splinters from the surface of..
Splint :: Splint (v. t.) One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below..
Sliver :: Sliver (n.) A long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter..
Basket :: Basket (n.) A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven..
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..
Splinter :: Splinter (v. i.) To become split into long pieces.
Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence..
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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