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

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

Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A piece split off; a splinter.

Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence..

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

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..

Splinter :: Splinter (n.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb..

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

Basket :: Basket (n.) A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven..

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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..

Spell :: Spell (n.) A spelk, or splinter..

Garreting :: Garreting (n.) Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.

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